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- From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
- Subject: Re: Weight/appearance of professional models; Re: Obesity...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.010152.21350@cs.yale.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:01:52 GMT
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- geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
- > When people go to these extremes, the facial
- >fat is also lost and the faces on these guys (and girls) look
- >skeletal. They look like someone who has AIDS.
-
- Paul Fussell has described his own experience bodybuilding in the book
- "Muscle". He only achieved the 'shrinkwrapped' look just before the time of
- the contest. He did this by extreme dieting, so much that he was physically
- weak, and had to be helped into the car that took him to the contest.
-
- > How this
- >has happened to people who started out wanting to be fit and
- >healthy is a mystery to me, but it is a type of pathologic
- >obsession, as far as I can tell.
-
- Fussell didn't start out wanting to be fit and healthy. Nor did he want
- female companionship. He was living in New York City when he took it up.
- He wanted armor.
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- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
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