eating habits in spain

• The Real Skinny

[Jennifer McWhirter]'s is one of only four scientific studies -- and the first in Canada -- to test allegations that models are risking their health. Longstanding concerns that models have become too thin were heightened last year with the deaths of South American models Luisel Ramos and Ana Carolina Reston, both of whom suffered from anorexia. After Ramos' death, Spain's fashion industry banned runway models whose BMI was below 18, and Italy and France also issued restrictions. But skinny models aren't accused of just putting their own health at risk. They're being blamed for providing unrealistic role models for young girls who diet and sometimes starve themselves to achieve the same look. Some of McWhirter's results weren't surprising. Others were. Not unexpectedly, the models scored...

... super-thin models are no more prone to eating disorders than the general population . By Wendy W... about her size and questioned her eating habits, which she says were perfectly normal: three meals...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 20, 2009

• Feeling Blue? It May Be What You Eat

...Eating fatty junk food increases the risk of depression, ... -- eat far more trans fats than people in Spain, and they get them from more highly processed "art... in risk factors -- including food habits -- might play a role. The study, published in the ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• January 28, 2011

• Hispanics and Their Perceptions of Family Dynamics: An Extension and Test of Group Reference Theory

Reference group theory is applied and the notion of "cultural reference groups" introduced as a way to shed light on processes of attitude formation among domestic and international publics. Using four waves of the World Values Survey, me paper explores the way that American and non- American Hispanics in Mexico, Argentina, and Spain interpret several dimensions of the family unit. Findings suggest that Hispanic Americans share more similar views of the family with nonHispanic Whites than with either non-U.S. Hispanics or African Americans. The study also finds that individuals make distinctions between traditional expectations and modern realities, suggesting that Hispanics' views of family are a more complex and multidimensional cultural trait amongst Hispanics than is often alluded t...

... between reference groups and personal eating habits (Sapp and Harrod 1989). It is more recently...

• Journal of Comparative Family Studies
• Vol. 40 Nbr. 3, January 2009