What makes a child starve themselves until they are so thin that they have to go to hospital? A survey has shown that hundreds of boys and girls under the age of 13 have been admitted to hospital with anorexia nervosa in the past three years in England, doctors and other commentators believe they have the answer: it's "size zero culture".
Young girls have their heads turned by images of celebrities with legs like toothpicks, and they try to copy them because they want to be pretty and popular – Airbrushing in advertising needs to be stopped, and the epidemic of self-starvation will be checked.
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