Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.