All this article tells me is that there are more women who care more about what they look like than whether they have a loving physical relationship with anyone or anything (by the sounds of it).
Evidently, we are that much of a narcisstic, vain culture that we would even give up the chance for intimacy and closeness to be an abitrary 10-20 lbs. less.
Then, we become thin(ner) but lonely from the isolation? We were created to connect to others in a meaningful way.
The problem is not on our hips but in our minds! Sick!
Vanity of vanity, all things are vanities.