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LDVideo: Jo Swinson MP on new body image report

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 30th May 2012 - 8:21 pm

Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson has today launched Reflections on Body Image, a report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, which suggests that children as young as five years old can be worried about their weight and looks.

The report makes a number of wide ranging recommendations from giving children body image and self esteem lessons in school to requiring advertisers to use a more diverse range of models to looking at whether the Equality Act needs to be amended to cover appearance related discrimination to challenging the evidence base that supports dieting and the idea that low weight guarantees health.

Jo has had an exhilarating day doing the rounds of the various media outlets from the Today programme to BBC Breakfast to Sky News.

Here she is talking to Bill Turnbull on BBC Breakfast this morning:

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Posted in News | Also tagged body image, equality act, Jo Swinson and wellbeing | 13 Comments

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