There was a time you could count on your average teenager to sleep in until 3pm, quote Nietzsche and write angst-ridden poetry while wanking into a sock/crying over a boy (adjust according to gender).
Now though it seems that if they’re not obese and riddled with diabetes, they’re stick thin and starving. Something seems seriously wrong.
Angry medical professionals have hit out at the manufacturers of a new diet patch.
The National Obesity Forum, which lists doctors, nurses and dieticians among its members, have branded the marketing strategy for The Pink Patch ‘dangerous’.
Now, if you have not seen the new adverts, I’ll be surprised. They seem to be all over the internet at the moment.
Former child star Christina Ricci has spoken out about struggling with anorexia as a teenager.
Anorexia nervosa, one of the most prevalent eating disorders amongst young people today, affects around one percent of the population.
Star of the new movie Speed Racer, Ricci talked to Independent.ie about her former illness.
One in five brides-to-be will go to “extreme” methods to slim down for their wedding day, a US study has revealed.
Such is the pressure on women to look ‘perfect’ on their wedding day, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found that an alarmingly high percentage will risk their health by skipping meals, taking unprescribed pills or laxatives and even ramming their fingers down their throat after eating.
Felicity Kendal has branded the campaign against so-called ‘size zero models’ a waste of time.
The 61-year-old actress said women have been doing all they can to get thin for centuries and that politicians should focus on more important issues.
Notorious party girl Tara Reid has angrily hit back at suggestions she has an eating disorder.
The American Pie actress raised concerns over her health last month when she appeared for a modelling shoot in Bali looking incredibly skinny.
And if we were a tabloid we’d put man in snarky apostrophes, but we’re just a little bit classier here at DietPixie.
Of course we all know the story. It’s age old. Man meets woman. Falls in love. They decide to have a baby. Man used to be woman until sex change op. Well, partial sex change op. Man still has some of his old womanly bits knocking about. Man carries baby. Goes on Oprah. And now… man has given birth to baby girl.
It’s a beautiful thing.
If only more men gave birth to babies. Maybe then we’d get a bit more bloody understanding about how much it Bloody Hurts. Oh well.
Thomas, 34, was born a lady, but took hormones and had his breasts removed to live as a man. He always hoped to get pregnant one day though, so he kept his female sex organs, telling Oprah it was down to his “human desire” and “right to have my own biological child.”
Some stuffy old squares didn’t agree though, largely the Christian right of America who went flipping apeshit.
His wife Nancy, 45, already has grown-up children and cannot have more biologically after having a hysterectomy.
Look out for exclusive pics in whichever glossy mag has the deepest pockets, very soon.
Picture: Morguefile
And if we were a tabloid we’d put man in snarky apostrophes, but we’re just a little bit classier here at DietPixie.
Of course we all know the story. It’s age old. Man meets woman. Falls in love. They decide to have a baby. Man used to be woman until sex change op. Well, partial sex change op. Man still has some of his old womanly bits knocking about. Man carries baby. Goes on Oprah. And now… man has given birth to baby girl.
It’s a beautiful thing.
If only more men gave birth to babies. Maybe then we’d get a bit more bloody understanding about how much it Bloody Hurts. Oh well.
Thomas, 34, was born a lady, but took hormones and had his breasts removed to live as a man. He always hoped to get pregnant one day though, so he kept his female sex organs, telling Oprah it was down to his “human desire” and “right to have my own biological child.”
Some stuffy old squares didn’t agree though, largely the Christian right of America who went flipping apeshit.
His wife Nancy, 45, already has grown-up children and cannot have more biologically after having a hysterectomy.
Look out for exclusive pics in whichever glossy mag has the deepest pockets, very soon.
Picture: Morguefile
And if we were a tabloid we’d put man in snarky apostrophes, but we’re just a little bit classier here at DietPixie.
Of course we all know the story. It’s age old. Man meets woman. Falls in love. They decide to have a baby. Man used to be woman until sex change op. Well, partial sex change op. Man still has some of his old womanly bits knocking about. Man carries baby. Goes on Oprah. And now… man has given birth to baby girl.
It’s a beautiful thing.
If only more men gave birth to babies. Maybe then we’d get a bit more bloody understanding about how much it Bloody Hurts. Oh well.
Thomas, 34, was born a lady, but took hormones and had his breasts removed to live as a man. He always hoped to get pregnant one day though, so he kept his female sex organs, telling Oprah it was down to his “human desire” and “right to have my own biological child.”
Some stuffy old squares didn’t agree though, largely the Christian right of America who went flipping apeshit.
His wife Nancy, 45, already has grown-up children and cannot have more biologically after having a hysterectomy.
Look out for exclusive pics in whichever glossy mag has the deepest pockets, very soon.
Picture: Morguefile
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