The percentage of underweight women between 20 to fall below 20 percent for the first time in 20 years, health experts examine and fashion,...
The percentage of underweight women between 20 to fall below 20 percent for the first time in 20 years, health experts examine and fashion, whether this means that the desire to be thin has to be healthy has been replaced by the search.
According to the latest report of the Ministry of Health for health and nutrition of people, women aged 20 years with a body mass index (BMI) below 18.5 - a figure considered low weight - represented since 1995 by 17.4 per cent in 2014 was the first time the number of the 20-percent mark.
The figure was 29 percent in 2010, but decreased gradually.
BMI is a measure of body fat based on height and weight for adults weight calculated in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.
"I thought I would be happier if I would lose weight, but this is not the case", Nao, 30, said a fashion model.
Nao, now a fashion magazine for women plus size appears in Farfa, he said, he was obsessed with losing weight when I followed in high school was and was a vicious cycle of dieting by excessive overeating.
But his career in photography continued, he noted that it would feel a lot of people with weight-related complex and began that it was as it was.
"I realized that it is a waste if I lived my life only my face troubling," he said.
With 26 Nao overcame an eating disorder. It was then explored a model to be.
The Farfa, launched in 2013 to life, is the only recovery of the fashion magazine of the nation for older women.
Harumi Kon, editor of The Farfa said fashion magazines have ceased died images of extremely thin women to several models with anorexia.
"To be healthy, a trend chubby female figures in the entertainment industry is also very popular ;. 'Re to see a change," Kon said.
The increase in social awareness of a healthy lifestyle is also a factor, said Mari Suzuki, head of the Japanese Association of eating disorders. "The extreme diets like only a certain food to eat are gone," he said, adding that the goal is now the general public in order to control weight, while the food was good.
Nao, the model says she is much happier now. "I am able to smile more, and I love me now. Appearance is important, but the inner happiness is more important."
