In Response to Bridal Hunger Games
Preventing the Damage After the Wedding It's hard to know what disturbs me most about the NY Times article Bridal Hunger Games printed yesterday. Was it the hopelessness of women who don't fit into their ideal image of what a bride should look like—willing to take dietary change to extreme measures to achieve short term “success”? Or my fright at the willingness of MDs and nurses, helping health professionals, whose “first do no harm” mantra has clearly been dismissed? Or maybe it's the NY Times itself for creating a piece that seems more like an advertisement for unhealthy weight loss schemes, rather than a balanced report on the pitiful state of our culture and the consequences of being lured into quick weight loss schemes? Pressure on women for their “big day” abounds, and it's been addressed before on this blog http://dropitandeat.blogspot.com/2011/09/wedding-diet-guaranteed-to-change-your.html . But let's take another look, from the perspective of the newl...