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May 6, 2004 News

Women's magazines should dump diet stories, a magazine associate editor told a body image conference in Melbourne today. Sarah Wilson, a former model who battled poor body image in her teens and 20s and now campaigns publicly on the issue, said her magazine Cosmopolitan had consciously dumped diet stories despite commercial pressure to include them. "As (Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief) Mia Freedman says, if she ran a 'Lose three kilos in a week' diet in the magazine, circulation would jump 10 per cent at the very least," Ms Wilson told a conference on International No Diet Day in Melbourne. "But Cosmopolitan, in the face of this truth and in spite of the incredible commercial pressure to do otherwise, does not do diets. The Australian

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