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...Every girl is tight-corseted with the propaganda that she must have a slim, svelte figure, no matter what her natural body build or bone structure. She may react to this either by trimming down mercilessly and suffering near starvation; or she may surrender to the neurotic pleasures of overeating???all the time rationalizing that the trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted in an ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anatomy of Angst | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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