"A revolution has begun against the perception of beauty in Israel..."

"...  this law shatters the anorexic ideal serving as an example for the country’s youth." The new law, known as the “photoshop la...

"We can’t go out and lock up all the socially awkward young men in the world..."

"But we have to try to prevent the unpredicted." Says a psychiatrist quoted in a WaPo article titled "Predicting violence is ...

"[T]he hypocrisy of pillorying a guy for using his employer’s equipment to grow marijuana..."

"... while his employer offers training in how to create a pair of substances — including one with its own mind-altering properties — t...

Sarah Palin is "scary thin"...

... and she's writing a fitness book.  Celebrities have got to keep moving, looking for an open niche. Her tips, by the way, are newly f...

Demonstrating that bulimia had destroyed her gag reflex...

... a woman laughs inopportunely.

Obama's cookie controversy.

Asked by a girl to name his favorite Girl Scout cookie, Obama says "“I’ve gotta say that I’m pretty partial to those mint..." and ...

"Where are you on the global fat scale?"

A calculator set up by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Don't be afraid to compare yourself to the rest of the world....

Post-gastric-bypass surgery, prisoner needed much more time to eat and now he's suing for $80 million.

At Rikers Island, they only give you 4 minutes to eat, but in his condition, Michael Isola needed to chew and swallow slowly . Speed-eating ...

Have you seen the cover of Newsweek?

5 or 10 years ago, it was a routine, almost daily practice for me to wander around a bookstore and so I always knew what was on the covers o...

Great beauties of Renaissance art, slimmed down, via Photoshopping.

By Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano, supposedly demonstrating how tastes have changed. Quite aside from the passage of time, taste in be...

Women in shorts.

In the office. These are supposed to be business suits. Presented seriously by the Wall Street Journal. If you're getting this dressed ...

Julian Assange — "He's a sissy; he's a waif, purely and simply an Internet creation."

That's how Rush Limbaugh talked about Julian Assange on his show yesterday. What I'm interested in here is not Assange per se or wh...

"You have the smallest waist in the world. Look at that waist!"

"There's something about her I quite like."

Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey — "We always seem to get rid of the good dames."

"[Courtney] Love is keen to align herself to these historical figures [who appear on the cover of her new album]. Strong, misunderstood...

"If we were skinny, cute and 23 in 2008, we'd dress exactly like Wesley."

Project Rungay doesn't "care what you bitches say" about the way Wesley Nault, one of the new "Project Runway" cont...

"Never will we accept in [fashion] that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny."

"That doesn’t exist in the world, and it will certainly not exist in France." The French try to legislate against the promotion o...

Appearing with Elton John, Hillary Clinton proclaims "I’m still standing."

Oh, cool. But what I want to know is whether, when she said that, a whole lot of painted, skinny guys in thongs rushed out and gyrated all a...

"For those of you who carry just a wallet, how the heck do you do it?"

Dr. Helen got sick of carrying a purse , but finds it hard to edit down to just a wallet. She asks for advice. I was a staunch purse-avoider...

"The most important model of masculinity for a generation of Americans."

" He had transformed his persona from that of a skinny, boyish, even androgynous heartthrob with Brylcreemed curls, too-big jackets, s...

"Being overweight but not obese was associated only with excess mortality from diabetes and kidney disease..."

"Excess mortality"... what a weird phrase. I prefer the locution "insufficient immortality." But I suspect, reading this...