Diets. diets - some people are dying because of diets. Yet come New Year and the mags are full of them. In this obesity crisis spare a thought for those who stand like a bag of bones before the mirror and see fat, fat, fat.
It's all in the head of course. Most dangerous place for it and the hardest of all to shift. Today The Times tells us of mum Marie Caro, who has killed herself after failing to save her child Isabelle from anorexia. You can bet she did her best. Everything possible, but is still wasn't enough. Isabelle Caro, 28, modelled for a shock poster in 2007. She knew the danger she was in and wanted to warn others.
But the photographer who took the pictures of a stick-thin girl with huge scared eyes called her arrogant and self-promoting after her death. Harsh words for a mother to hear. Anorexia is a disease about control. It's suffered by girls and boys desperate for a grip on life that can be whisked away by fluke or just a whim of the weather.
It's one of the hardest to cure. So let's zip the puppy-fat remarks and the wobbly-bit banter and maybe we can all feel a whole lot better about ourselves.
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