Many girls today are in a damsel in distress mode, very much a modern prototype of the Victorian dames, worried about their figure. The physical and mental outlook of girls have evolved with the passage of time, but certain matters close to their heart remain unchanged. An hourglass shape then is a pencil thin figure now, with a record 83 % of female college students hooked to dieting practices. They try every tricks of the trade from skipping breakfast and smoking to vomiting and popping diet pills in the quest for a thin and hip look.

Weight loss is no more a concern confined to the obese alone, as many girls use push and ram methodology to (mis)manage their weight without caring a hoot for the position of their body weight in the BMI scale. The state of affairs is not weight loss for a healthier end, but a prettier and thinner end. With the young female crowd fed on a daily diet of soap operas, they look up to the actresses for fashion and dieting inspirations. Though it is no mean feat to attain and replicate the figure and shape of the screen goddesses in real life, the girls are keener, the more surreal and bizarre, the ideal figure is.

Anticipation for a dream form and outline drives the young bunch loco, as they resort to any and every available ways and means to get to a pedestal, where they would be the envy of everyone. Slim or stout, it doesn