French bill takes aim at those who glamorize the ultra-thin
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_re_eu/france_anorexia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080415/capt.9c1e2443d693428c8bc53eb9dc258c7e.france_anorexia_ny112.jpg?x=74&y=130&q=85&sig=1lEQOTwNv2LrVgjios1nfQ--" align="left" height="130" width="74" alt="Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston participates in a fashion show in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in this April 14, 2005, file photo. The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday, April 15, 2008 that would make it illegal for anyone ? including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites ? to publicly incite extreme thinness. Reston, a 21-year-old anorexic model who weighed only 88 pounds died Tuesday Nov. 14, 2006 of generalized infection. (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio)" border="0" /></a>AP - In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultra-thin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise anorexics on how to starve ? and could be used to hit fashion industry heavyweights, too.</p><br clear="all"/>

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