(Paris – Relax news/health – medical .net)-this Wednesday, April 9, will be proposed a law “to combat anorexia incentives”. Issued by Valérie Boyer, m.p. of Bouches, this proposal coincide with the signing of a “Charter on the image of the body and against anorexia”, in the presence of the Minister of health, Roselyne Bachelot. The professionals of the fashion, advertising and media, concerned by this issue, are signatories. <br />
The Charter was carried out by the Working Group “Body Image”, which was charged to a balance sheet on the health problems associated with the image of the body in France. Child psychiatrist Marcel Rufo and sociologist Jean-Pierre foal including participated in this work, initiated by Xavier Bertrand, former Minister of health.

An approach which had been following the various polemics on the too much emaciated mannequins. Since then, measures for the protection of the health of the models have taken to Madrid, Milan, but also New York, but not in France.

The Minister of health has already announced some measures, February 27, in the young Health Plan. Among them was a medical follow-up strengthened for Dummies. Medical visits, and more frequent and regulated, in particular, should be applied to the models. A list of the reviews and measures required in these tests should be stopped.

Another proposed measure: all Organizer demonstration “must be able to provide a certificate of fitness of the models of dating one month validity”, had indicated the Minister. For several seasons, the models marching to Madrid and Italy must have a body mass index greater than 18, or weighing more than 56 kg to 1.75 m.

The major objective of this Charter will be to raise awareness in acceptance of body diversity. In this framework, better information of the public is envisaged, “to avoid the phenomena of stigma and promotion of the emaciated, to which young people are very sensitive”, announced the Minister.

To this end, it was proposed to create “a specific offence for content broadcast by the media, regardless of their support, which endanger of frail people by provocation to the extreme thinness”. A provision in the Penal Code, which would be likely to avoid a scandal such as the recent publication of an advertisement of Alberto Toscani showing an anorexic woman. It was banned in Italy and “deprecated” in France.

According to the Ministry of health figures, 30,000 to 40,000 people would be affected by anorexia in France. “Next”.