The beauty standard that is quietly costing Indian women their health
India, Sept. 23 -- Forty-six million Indian women over fifty have osteoporosis. Not because their bodies failed them. Because we taught them that small was beautiful, and they listened. I was one of them, or nearly. There was a period in my life when I was skinny. Not lean, not athletic, skinny. And everywhere I went, people told me I looked wonderful. Colleagues, relatives, acquaintances at parties-the compliments came freely. What nobody could see was that my nutrition was so poor that my bones were fracturing under the load of training. I was breaking, quietly, on the inside. But I looked great. So nobody was worried. Then I started lifting seriously. I gained muscle. My posture changed, my performance changed, my health transformed in...
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