In recent years, the ideal image of beauty has been for women to become thinner and thinner, and we see this with the models, the celebrities, advertising and the popular culture. The dolls are getting thinner, Barbie's thinner than she's ever been before, and this is sending a powerful message to girls that they need to worry about this and starting at a very early age, a recent study found that 50% of three to six year old girls worry that they're fat. Now, girls that age shouldn't be thinking about this sort of thing and they should be very unhealthy for them to be trying to change, you know, their body at that age. It creates enormous harm, it puts enormous pressure on girls to achieve an ideal that really isn't very healthy. And I think the obsession with thinness, to a great extent, is about cutting girls down to size, making sure that girls don't feel too full of themselves, too big, too powerful; and that this happens to girls in many different ways as when girls enter adolescence, they're encouraged to not only be very thin, but maybe not to speak up as much as they used to or to express themselves as fully as they used to. So cutting girls down to size is something that happens in the culture in many different ways and does enormous harm to girls. About 65% of American women have some form of an eating disorder, so that's a huge problem in and of itself. Sometimes, people are so worried about obesity, which is a major public health problem now, that they think it's somehow better for our children to be dieting than to get fat. But the solution to obesity isn't to make our girls hate themselves and starve themselves. Obesity is really a very complex problem, huge genetic factor, and in some ways, it's related to the obsession with thinness, so what we need to do for both these things is to transform our attitudes about how we eat and how we exercise and help our children to think about eating and exercise in terms of how it makes them feel in terms of their energy rather than in terms of how it makes them look.