Originally published July 11 2005
Wedding Gown Challenge helps women keep their wedding figures for life
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Instead of starving themselves for the big day, many proponents of the Wedding Gown Challenge are helping women reach a healthy weight and keep it off for life.
As brides-to-be across the country starve themselves into unhealthy and unrealistic weights for just one day--their wedding day--The Wedding Gown Challenge reaches its six-week countdown.
Today, there is little expectation that women will hover near their wedding day size.
However, the facts according to Yale New Haven Hospital, and others, is that women need only blame five to 10 pounds on pregnancy.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine and reported by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), gaining merely 10-20 pounds after age 18 increases your chance of dying by 15%.
MeMe Roth: June Brides all over the country are starving themselves silly as we speak.
MeMe Roth: Projecting onto women that once they become wives or mothers it's okay to just get fat is sexist.
On the flip side we're the most likely to stop the obesity epidemic.
MeMe Roth: I come from a long line of obesity and always assumed I would get fat after I got married and fatter still with each child---just like my relatives.
Genetics, pregnancy, depression---all great excuses, but unless you have a doctor's note stating otherwise, your fitness is 100% up to you.
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