http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/tammy-lovett/ Tammy Lovett is a freelance journalist and student.  She is in her final year of a Bachelor degree in Journalism at Latrobe University.  Tammy was brought up in rural Victoria but now lives in Melbourne. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/body-image-crusaders-must-avoid-normalising-obesity/ The Melbourne Spring Fashion Festival is now in full swing.  In a few days it will coincide with the start of the National Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness week. The fashion industry has always come under fire for its use of super-skinny models, raising issues about healthy body images.  In Australia, 45 per cent of women and 23 per cent of men in a healthy weight range believe they are overweight.  Being in a healthy weight range doesn’t make your image perception healthy. But this argument isn’t new.  And overtime little has been done to correct these issues.  We have heard the calls to ban skinny models from the world’s fashion runways, but they are still walking down the catwalk. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tammy Lovett) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/body-image-crusaders-must-avoid-normalising-obesity/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/body-image-crusaders-must-avoid-normalising-obesity/#item3968 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:55:11 +0000 Tammy Lovett | Author bios | The Punch