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Published online 11 December 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001214-4
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More models clinically underweight
Seven in ten Playboy centrefolds are unhealthily thin, new research reveals.
Seven of every ten women appearing as centrefold models in Playboy magazine during the past 20 years are clinically underweight, a new study has found. The results, soon to be published in the International Journal of Obesity1, reinforce concerns that the body images in magazines and other media are unrepresentative and possibly damaging.
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