Whats The Skinny?

I gotta post on this issue, Hollywood and the media in general glorify skininess, but lately its gotten insane. Millions of young women, and men are growing up with stick insects as their image of beauty. The pervasiveness of the emaciated look is apparent to anyone who reads fashion rags or peruses the tabloids. To me denying yourself the pleasures of the table and of the vine is like living in hell. I have young teenaged nieces and cousins that I know will have body image issues and often times this is reinforced by family members and peers, its sick. I am well aware of the obesity epidemic in this country, but it seems to me that we are either one or the other, morbidly obese or dangerously skinny, we gotta find a happy medium.