In August, 22-year-old Uruguayan model luis ramos died at a fashion show in South Africa. In the previous three months, she insisted on eating only salads and vegetables and drinking diet coke in order to reach the "extremely thin" standard respected by the fashion industry. Not long after she stepped onto the runway, she suddenly collapsed and died of heart failure, becoming a victim of fashion. 265,438+0-year-old Brazilian female model Ana Carolina Reston died of complications caused by anorexia on June 5th, 2006. Miss Reston's tragedy has once again sounded the alarm for the fashion industry that encourages female models to go on a diet to achieve a "perfect" figure. In today's era where "skinny feeling" is the beauty, slimming and dieting has become one of the killers that endanger people's health. Not only do models lose too much weight, but female stars in the entertainment circle are not far behind, and fashionistas are also following closely, which makes governments all over the world have to intervene and call on everyone to "gain weight" together. Reston, an anorexic female model killer, is a model with rising fame. She is the image spokesperson of the famous Italian fashion brand giorgio armani. According to reports, before his death, Reston, whose height was1.74m, weighed only 40kg. She lives mainly by eating tomatoes and apples. This is not the first time that a female model has died because of dieting. The premature death of many young models has brought great pressure to other fashion show festivals. According to the standards of the World Health Organization, any body mass index (body mass index), that is, the number of kilograms divided by the square of height (meters), is thinner than 18.5. If it is near 15, it is hungry. According to Reston's doctor, her index was only 13.5 when she died. At this year's Madrid International Fashion Week, the organizing committee announced that those models whose body mass index is lower than 18 are not allowed to walk on the runway. Armani, the fashion giant, bluntly expressed his support. He said: "I never like girls who are too thin. I have never let them walk the runway myself. " Gaultier, a famous French fashion designer, even showed it to a big female model on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of fashion design. Wearing a sexy black underwear, this big female model is obviously dwarfed by other famous "skinny" female models who participated in the catwalk. Hollywood actresses are unwilling to lag behind and become "lollipops". When the trend of "thinness" prevailed on the runway, Hollywood actresses were not to be outdone. From big-name stars to new stars, they are desperately turning themselves into "lollipops" with thinner bodies and bigger heads. The era of "lollipop" in Hollywood began in September 1998. At that time, Krista flockhart, who attended the Emmy Awards ceremony, was as thin as a street child. In ally mcbeal, she is round and lovely. After losing weight, she only has an anorexic pale face and thin arms like a tree. She was exhausted at the shooting scene and fainted. It didn't take long for people to find that "lollipops" can be seen everywhere in the Oscar and Grammy awards ceremonies in the past two years. Renee Zellweger can gain weight and sacrifice her image in order to shoot BJ's single diary. But after the film is finished, we still have to lose weight quickly and lose weight. It is said that in order to lose weight, she can spend 60 thousand yuan at a time. However, it is difficult for a female star to grab the role if she doesn't make herself as thin as a newly developed teenager. The director prefers slim female stars, and many of the clothes made are samples worn by thin models lent or donated by fashion designers. On the set, if someone can't fit into those clothes and has to ask the dresser to find another one, she will be embarrassed. Joan Reeves, the host of American entertainment channel, described the increasingly thin Hollywood without exaggeration, saying, "Forget about 10, or even No.6. No.2 is a fat man in Hollywood, and everyone wants to be No.0. If God grants us a wish, we will all make a wish and say,' God, let me be thin!'" A group of skinny models, represented by Kate Moss, ignored numerous controversies in the media from the beginning, and pushed their skinny aesthetic taste to the peak. With the help of fashion and various media, the trend of skinny has swept the world, making people all over the world eager for it. They put Kate Moss, a naturally thin model, on the cover of runway and fashion magazines, making her skinny as a popular aesthetic standard. As a result, anorexia has become an increasingly serious social problem like obesity in richer societies such as Europe and America. In order to lose every one or two pieces of fat, people do whatever it takes to lose weight, and all kinds of weight-losing tricks emerge one after another: throat-gouging and vomiting, diuretics, laxatives, various diet pills and excessive exercise. As a result, the number of anorexia nervosa caused by excessive dieting and weight loss is increasing, and 7 out of every 8 anorexia patients are women. At present, anorexia has become one of the five new diseases in the world. What is particularly worrying is that it is not easy to cure and the mortality rate is as high as 20%. Moreover, an experiment by British psychologists proves that fashion magazines have a decisive influence on teenagers' pursuit of slim figure. Psychologists surveyed more than 200 teenagers aged between 13 and 17 and divided them into two groups. One group often reads fashion magazines, while the other group doesn't. 15 months later, many people in the group who often read magazines thought they were too fat and wanted to go on a diet to lose weight, while those in the group who didn't read magazines didn't. 4 1% of the girls said that their idea of dieting came from fashion magazines. The British newspaper The Independent also conducted a survey on the health problems of young women. Among 65,438+000 young women, at least 65,438+0 suffer from anorexia and bulimia (overeating), and 60% of women suffer from mental illness due to lack of self-confidence. All underweight people have symptoms of eating disorders. Psychiatrists point out that "thinness" in the fashion field has serious consequences for women. The government has no choice but to urge people to "gain weight". A large number of deaths and diseases caused by excessive dieting have attracted the attention of governments all over the world. The Women's Department of the British Cabinet once convened a summit meeting of the fashion industry and fashion magazines, inviting the world's top fashion designers, the owners of model companies and the owners of famous fashion magazines to stop contributing to the slimmer and more beautiful morbid fashion. It is reported that the British Women's Department may push for legislation to prohibit fashion companies from choosing underweight and skinny models. In June this year, the British edition of Marie Claire, a famous fashion magazine, specially replaced supermodel and Hollywood superstar Pamela Anderson with Sophie Daha as the cover. Recently, the Spanish Ministry of Health and some non-governmental organizations have also asked for "fattening" fashion models. These organizations point out that fashion models in shop windows are too thin, and wearing small-sized fashionable and beautiful clothes on their "thin" frames can easily lead to women who love beauty having to go on a diet in order to lose weight, which is very harmful to their health. In Spain, as many as 1 10,000 people have been diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia, and there may be more people suffering from such diseases, but they have not gone to the hospital. At present, some clothing companies have begun to respond to the call to replace the thin clothing model in the shop window with a relatively plump model that conforms to the actual size of the human body and display it there. Of course, the clothes worn by models are also large, and many ordinary women don't wear them too tightly. The phrase "eat less" is often used in Hollywood entertainment circles, because in order to keep a graceful figure, even if the food is flowing, they can only try their best to hold back their saliva. Many people use the following recipes. Day 1: Breakfast: one ounce of low-fat cheese and two pieces of toast. Caesar salad and four ounces of chicken for lunch. For dinner, six ounces of salmon steak, half a cup of rice and one cup of boiled green beans. The dessert is yogurt and ten almonds. The next day: two scrambled eggs (only egg white) and a piece of whole wheat toast for breakfast. Lunch, four ounces of cheeseburger (half a loaf) and a carrot. For dinner, six ounces of roast chicken breast, a cup of boiled cabbage and a low-fat salad. Dessert is a cup of popcorn and an ounce of cheddar cheese. Day 3: breakfast: a cup of oatmeal (with skim milk) and half a banana. Shrimp salad for lunch, a glass of asparagus and four soda cakes. For dinner, six ounces of steak (lean meat) with boiled mushrooms and onions, lettuce salad and low-fat sauce. Dessert is ten grapes and an ounce of salty cheese. (Yang Meiping)