“A sound heart is the life to the body: but envy is rottenness to the bones.”
Proverbs 14:30
…The table below compares average women in the U. S. with Barbie Doll and department store mannequins. It’s not encouraging. (Health magazine, September 1997; and NEDIC, a Canadian eating disorders advocacy group)
Average woman
Barbie
Store mannequin
Height
5’ 4”
6’ 0”
6’ 0”
Weight
145 lbs.
101 lbs.
N/A
Dress size
11 -14
4
6
Bust
36 - 37”
39”
34”
Waist
29 - 31”
19”
23”
Hips
40 - 42”
33”
34”
ANRED Statistics. “How Many People have Eating Disorders?” <http://www.anred.com/stats.html>. Used with permission.
After looking at the above chart, how do you feel about the statistics given compared with your information? What do you think of the chart?
List a time when someone made a comment about your appearance. What was it? How did it make you feel then? How does it make you feel now?
Have you ever made a comment about someone else’s appearance? What did you say? How did you feel after you said it?
Do you consider yourself to be fat right now? Why or why not?
