In France, on the promotion of anorexia

The lower house of the French parliament passed a law any kind of promotion of unhealthy thinness, including images of emaciated models and advertising ban strict diets. The corresponding values for the print media, TV programs and Internet sites. Supported by the ruling party bill by the National Assembly on Tuesday, 15 April passed. He is expected to be approved by the Senate in the coming weeks. The new law can promote one of the most radical attempts to limit legislative unhealthy ideals of beauty. The reason for the ban on the image overly thin models in a number of countries in the death of a Brazilian model who died of anorexia in 2006. According to the author of the bill Valerie Boyer (Valery Boyer), the anorexia in France should be a criminal offense. Boyer suggests that advertising grueling diet and excessive thinness heavy fines and jail imprisonment. According to statistics, around 40,000 people are affected by anorexia in France, three quarters of them are women. The first law is aimed to protect the health of women, although it is formally distributed to the images of models of both sexes. The initiative of the French deputies commented, say representatives of the world of haute couture, that the relationship between the publications in fashion magazines and the incidence of anorexia are not detected, and the degree of depletion of each girl can not be determined by the courts.