Children's Book 'Maggie Goes on a Diet'...

[islamirama]

Children's Book 'Maggie Goes on a Diet'...

Aug 23, 2011

"Maggie Goes on a Diet" is about a 14-year-old girl's weight-loss journey. The book says that she loses weight, joins soccer team, and gains fame and friends. Parents are upset over the message it's sending to children that they can only have friends if they do these things and popularity is important for which being skinny is a requirement.

These type of messages cause eating disorders in children, says experts.

news video: http://news.yahoo.com/video/health-15749655/children-s-book-maggie-goes-on-a-diet-causes-stir-26388352.html​

 

[sister herb]

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What might has had in the head of writer of kind of book? Haven´t here already enough young girls whose believe they must to be skinny before they can be happy and popular? Believing kind of values they only are in the risk of serious health problems. As well they will learn they aren´t anything else than meant to be just as sexual objects as only they body is important to others.