WebMD interviews Clinical Director
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The current fascination with cankles (a term referring to thick ankles, combining “calf” and “ankle”) is as trendy and overplayed as TomKat, Brangelina, or any other hybrid-named pairing. Our recent Facebook rant about Gold Gym’s “Cankles Awareness Month” campaign got the attention of Wendy C. Fries, WebMD’s Senior Editor. She and our Clinical Director, Jessica LeRoy got into the thick of it on the new fixation with thick ankles.
Jessica says that ankles are just the next in a long line of body parts that have come under scrutiny by the media, and as a result, created body image problems for women. Read the article to see Jessica’s helpful tips on how to feel better about yourself without opting for expensive surgery, ankle or other. So, what the skinny on cankles? Can men have cankles? Why not a Moobs (man boobs) Awareness Month, Gold’s Gym? Read the article now. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
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Jennifer says: 01/29/2010 at 9:37 am
Wow. This small blurb about the latest “cankle phenomena” caught my eye, as I think it’s absolutely obsurd that this self-esteem reducing trait would be turned into a catchy gym slogan. I am an individual that struggles everyday with my personal demons that are largely based on the way I look and view my body. I dont know why I feel this way and if it stems from deep-rooted issues from my childhood or if I’m genetically pre-determind to face body image issues. Nonetheless, societal views that were primarily created based off of what men think the world should look like, has impacted many women and men across the nation. Some countries are more plagued than others and certain individuals seem to be less affected than others (genetic trait to be thick-skinned perhaps), but slogans like this dont help society as a whole. What a sick thought to make money off of others misfortunes and hardships, but that’s how this world works. Millions of dollars are profited every year from people dying from cancer, AIDS, and the like, as well as, the billion dollar industry of anti-aging products. The commercials, magazine ads, and photos plastered on larger than life bill boards that advocate beauty and youth are mocking and brainwashing most of America; its like a sick unhealthy relationship of we cant live with it and we cant live without it. The love affair with vanity and staying thin and glamorous is a trend that is not longer considered a trend, but is here to stay and has no sign of fading away into the past. The future only holds more torment for those trying to live up to the standards that have been fused into our brians of, “What looks good.” Remember watching Marilyn Monroe and thinking how beautiful she looked, well she was a size 14 and now a days that would be considered obese. Please…she was not obese. Now we have standards of size 0 vicoria secret supermodels that float down the runways wearing skimpy lingerie and perfectly sculpted bodies and we think to ourselves there is now way I could look like that. Well you know what we try and the process is torture and almost unbearable at times. We sweat for 2-3 hours a day at the gym, eat less, and think that eating more carbs will make us fat. Then we begin to realize that when we eat less our body stores more fat and it unleashes this fat the moment we bite into somthing substantial. So now we have to find that balance of eating healthy and still fitting into that size 0. How is this possible. I dont smoke or do drugs to stay thin and I dont have the extra money to hire a personal fitness trainter to curtail a routine that will hit alll the target areas. The key is to eat what you want, in moderation of course, and to keep up a gym routine that will satisfy a healthy weight, and lets face it size 0 is probably not healthy. And another thing to keep in mind, research shows that men really like women with a little more meat on their bones and some curves, rather than the skinny minnies that we see in those magazines. But how do we get our brains to hop on board with this notion that our man will love those few extra curves. Unless, we are paid to pose nude and make a living off of what we look like, than the only person who will see our slight imperfections are the men in our lives that already love us. So moral of the story dont beat yourself up over cankles, love handles, or a few extra pounds, its what makes you…YOU!