by Frances Ruocco

Created on: February 29, 2008   Last Updated: October 17, 2011

Yes, because many will write one article after another stressing that beauty is achieved only if one is slim.

Most of their models must be and remain under size two, or else they are never hired at all or out of jobs.

Secondly, they display a full line of clothes for the fuller figure, but, the models who making the money are not the full figured men or women, but men and women who are smaller sizes so their clothes more enticing.

They are using double standards, because they want to make their money on the heavier people, but do not want heavy people to make any money in return. They pick the models who wear the smallest size in the merchandise, i.e. pants, jackets, shirts, etc.

They should design clothing that compliments the fuller figure and show how by wearing different outfits one can look thinner.

Many full figured men and women who know how to dress correctly look as handsome and lovely as the slim man or woman standing next to them.

Many magazines have brainwashed us into believe that if we do have a full figure we are not attractive and we then always find ourselves make excuses as to why we are built the way we are; are afraid to eat in front of others because they will be watching us; and stay quiet whenever others talk about their diets. This insecurity then escalates and as soon as we get home we are overeating because something in our bodies is not functioning as it should be.

Many will advertise exercise machines; diet pills; one diet plan after another; this diet book written by this famous star detailing the quick and easy way to become pencil thin and that group that has all the answers. Many of them are only money makers that promise to shed the pounds, but don't produce the results that they claim to produce and the cycle continues over and over again.

They do not say that a lot of the people who buy their products are like yo-yos with weight going up and down, and the weight they lost last year will be back on with more pounds in six later, or how many of these people develop health and/or mental problems because the products do not work.

Why even Princess Diana and her sister-in-law Fergie were constantly made to feel insecure because they may have had a few extra pounds on from time to time.

Why don't we as a society realize that people who have everything aren't able to enjoy the world we live in because of what we read, hear and see from the weight loss industry.

Many of the diets are very harmful to our health, and many times we are

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