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The website also adds that “people who can admire a beautiful model but say ‘I could never look like her but it doesn’t bother me too much’ are the people who are least likely to fall victim to problems with food.” Maybe there is a lesson for all of us here: in that disconnect between the images we see and the selves we are. We need to build a kind of immune system of the mind, where we can absorb but not get infected by the world around us.
Notes on a Nervous Planet
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