French MPs back law to bar media from promoting anorexia - The Guardian 16th April 2008

French MPs yesterday approved a ground-breaking law against the promotion of anorexia, making it illegal to publicly incite excessive thinness. The bill, which would bar any form of media, including websites, magazines and advertisers, from promoting extreme thinness, encouraging severe weight-loss or methods for self-starvation, is the furthest any parliament has gone in the fight against anorexia and its public portrayal.

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