article_snippet.sent: The health reforms, which include fining agencies employing models with a BMI under 18 and criminalising pro-anorexia web content, have now passed through the upper house of parliament.
article_snippet.sent: But while some have been hailing the legislation as a 'crackdown on anorexia', the laws may be unlikely to have any such effect.
article_snippet.sent: These figures, however, are likely to be an underestimation.
article_snippet.sent: So the legislation is likely to have little effect on the prevalence of anorexia in the general population, but the legislation also offers no support to the models themselves.
article_snippet.sent: The law requires a medical certificate proving that a model has a BMI of at least 18.
article_snippet.sent: This is still underweight, according to the World Health Organisation.
article_snippet.sent: Thinness of this degree has hugely damaging effects on the internal organs, bones and brain.
article_snippet.sent: Legislation banning models with a BMI under 18 is likely to have little effect on the prevalence of anorexia in the general population, but Legislation banning models with a BMI under 18 also offers no support to the models themselves, experts have argued .
article_snippet.sent: whether that means a dangerously small or unhealthily large body.
article_snippet.sent: Nonetheless, this will mostly benefit the worried well – those who, regrettably, are unhappy with this bodies, but are otherwise unlikely to develop anorexia nervosa.