Mixed messages

The recent death of a young girl as a result of taking "slimming pills" which turned out to be poisonous, has highlighted the obsession which many young people have with "body image" and which it is suggested is fuelled by pictures of super-slim celebrities in film, on TV and in the media.  But then in the same news bulletin was a piece about the "ticking time bomb" of childhood obesity.  Sort of smacks of damned if you do, damned if you don't, doesn't it?