Originally Posted by Ten

I read an article in an older Harper's Bazaar from fall '05 that said something akin to:

"I can get on a plane in NY and arrive in LA ten pounds heavier."

In other words, in NY the author was perfectly "healthy" sized, but when she landed in LA she was instantly 10lbs heavier than the majority of people there considered "healthy" - and therefore "overweight".

She also stated that because the women began freakishly losing weight and were all a size 0 or a 2, the men began losing weight accordingly. This isn't the first time I've heard it stated that LA is horrible for body image - and to think that's where most of our media comes out of. LA versus NY. I'd go for the bagels and lox, myself.