Scare Stories: Being Thin Kills And Being Fat Gives You MS

SCARE Stories: Every day the Daily Mail scours scientific research journals, reports from vested-interest groups and the thoughts of NGO’s and publishes the scare stories as facts. Anorak picks the best today:

Monday November 9, 2009

“Women who are work out in a bid to get a celeb-style-body are most likely to have fertility problems” – Daily Star

“MS risk for obese teens – Obese teenage girls run a greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis”, study says – Daily Mirror

“AIRBRUSH is causing Anorexia” – Daily Mirror

“Apocalypse 2012. As a new blockbuster movie predicts the world will end in three years, why do so many people want to believe doomsday is just around the corner” – Daily Express looks to 2012, the movie.

“Side-effect alert for all statin users – Drugs, depression and memory loss” – Daily Mail

“We were fools to think the fall of the Berlin Wall had killed off the far Left. Now they’re back – and attacking us from within” – Daily Mail’s Melanie Phillips see red

“WHEN LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH. It’s the hardest job in the world, but parents caring for disabled children face a shameful lack of support. And, says ROSA MONCKTON, whose daughter has Down’s, it’s driving some to breaking point – and even murder” - Daily Mail

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Anorak

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