The picture is of Isabelle Caro, a French model who died at the age of 28 trying to recover from anorexia. She spent the later years of her life trying to promote health and campaign against anorexia, and wrote a book called, “The Girl Who Refused To Grow Fat”, an autobiography discussing the origins of her disease and her struggles to recover.
Pro-ana blogs need to be banned. It is not wrong to have a disorder, but it is wrong to help others become anorexic or bulimic, when they could otherwise live a normal life. It is normal to be self-conscious about one’s body, but these feelings have started to emerge in girls at a very young age. These girls deserve to enjoy their childhood. There’s no reason they should be so concerned about their bodies to the point of near death.
Promote health by reblogging this. We can help those already with the disease recover and prevent those who are at risk from getting it.
(via eatposelove)
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Historic Handshake
Photograph by Robert Markowitz and Bill Stafford
Astronauts of the future, meet your competition: When the space shuttle Discovery launches later today, Robonaut 2 (R2)-seen above on the left- will become the first humanoid robot in space.
R2 is bound for the International Space Station, and scientists will spend a year simply studying how well the robot moves in zero G. Once mission managers are satisfied, the android will be assigned one of his first tasks: house cleaning.
To keep the crew healthy, astronauts on the ISS have to use disinfecting wipes on all handrails every week. ”Jobs like that are really crummy for humans,” said Robert Ambrose, the Robonaut project leader at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. Fortunately for the ISS crew, R2 wasn’t programmed for snarky backtalk.
Besides, Ambrose said, “we’re designing [Robonaut] for EVA”- extravehicular activity, the NASA term for spacewalking- “and you can’t really hear your robot crack jokes in a vacuum.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lon77p53mA1qbd38ro1_500.jpg)
