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French Fashion Spreads to Come with Warning Labels?

Just how dangerous to your health is that trip to the magazine kiosk? French politician Valerie Boyer has proposed stamping digitally altered photos with a warning label, telling Reuters that Photoshopped fashion photos create unrealistic beauty standards and could promote eating disorders. But slapping a health warning on the side of Vogue -- the same as on a cigarette package -- is unlikely to have much of an effect. For starters, the link between fashion photos and poor self-image -- while not insignificant -- isn't quite as clear as the link between smoking and lung cancer. But even more ...

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