Ciara O'Rourke | 5 months ago | Comments (0)
French politicians introduced legislation last week that would require advertisers to label airbrushed models with a health warning: Photograph retouched to modify the physical appearance of a person.If passed, the law would force art directors to fess up to using Photoshop. For London Fog, that would mean adding a disclaimer to a campaign featuring supermodel Gisele Bundchen in the company’s classic trench. Bundchen is pregnant, but you can’t tell. No thanks to hiding her bump with the belt.
After successfully censoring “pro-ana” Web sites last year, Valerie Boyer, a member of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party, proposed the law with 50 other politicians to fight a warped image of women’s bodies in the media.“These images can make people believe in a reality that often does not exist,” she said in a statement. More
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Leading doctors from around the world are urging international leaders to agree to sharpen greenhouse gas emissions cuts as part of the U.N. Climate Summit in order to avert a "global health catastrophe".
Aside from providing a frightening warning from respected voices in the medical community, the two new reports could help motivate the United States to tackle the upcoming climate talks more quickly since the issue is now tied to the health care debate, currently stalling the action. According to an editorial published in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet this week: More
