THEthe return of thinness. An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardianalso proposed in the podcast TODAY IN FOCUSit seemed to me to play a gong. As happens when a title manages to offer a synthesis of something that was in the air but in widespread particles, already present but still missing.
And instead, here we are: let’s see that The fashion bodies, on the catwalk or in the photo shoots, are returning to the proportions of a few decades ago; We feel the overlapping of voices on the social platforms that offer routines and recipes based on the obsessive calculation of the calories taken/consumed day by day, almost now for now; We recognize that i new drugs, rapidly passed from the treatment of diabetes to the contrast of obesityhave created a trail that calls more or less everyone to show a “healthy” weight.
In the era of Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro, if you are not lost or lose weight (men are increasingly involved) it is because you have no willing force and even social sensitivity. Thinness, therefore, celebrated twice. For aesthetic reasons, as always, and because it has become a “simple” objective, fundamental to keep in balance the national health system of countries besieged by the consequences of a wrong diet as well as accompanied by sedentary peaks.
Barbara Stefanelli (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
The movement of the “Body Positivity”according to which the bodies were entitled to show themselves and be loved beyond each canon or mental corset, it would therefore already be finished. It was a parenthesis in the ten yearsan attempt to break secular lines that began to stumble upon its own rigidity and contradictions to end up submerged by an adverse wave.
Thinness against imperfections
In the comments to the work of the English journalist author of the service, the growing chaos of the opinions around the fat and lean mass indices is reverberated. Salutists attack the defense of overweight with disdain“Passed off” for a test of liberal and not condemned attitude as they are harmful. Feminist groups accuse The Alfieri of the new radical conservatismI decided to resurrect the “Clean Girl” and the “tradwife”, the soap and soap girl and the traditional wife, who know how to stay in the ranks and online in the collective imagination.
Consumer associations accuse the pharmaceutical industry on the one handdetermined to spread the “drugs” that block the assimilation of sugars, on the other the food Which bombards the global market with ultra-processed foods “American”. Finally “the gymnasties” want to clarify that it is no longer a question of being thin but of being “strong”, tonics, With well -defined muscles, a much more noble and tiring company.
In the middle there is the despair of how many and those who struggle to feel goodto see and feel good with yourself – by approaching one’s DNA, a conscious nutrition, the pleasure of movement, the thrill of irreducible originality with trendy – in a space of their own, protected because they are delicate, not cuffed by the images and shouts of those who sniff the most rowdy of contemporary transitions: the one towards a world where “the imperfects” will be persecuted minority.
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