French doctor and politician Olivier Véran has proposed adding language to a new health reform bill that would make it against the law for the country’s fashion industry to employ women who have been determined to be anorexic.
Young women and girls in France are bombarded with slimmed-down and slicked-to-perfection media images. As a result, nearly 40,000 French girls are estimated to suffer from anorexia.
This article was originally published on www.takepart.com, on March 16, 2015. Read the complete article here.
