Style can’t have it both ways

We get The Sunday Times delivered at home and reading their Style section usually results in me ranting over the breakfast table.

Style tends to focus on  £100 face creams, the latest exercise crazes, outfits that less than 0.05% of the population can afford and fad diets – the latest being sugar-free, so kale smoothie anyone?

On the other hand, their #FitNotThin campaign promotes the sensible benefits of a healthy, toned, fit-for-sporting-purpose body rather than a thin one.

You can’t have it both ways, and especially not in the same editorial:

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Either we’re all supposed to be fit and healthy or thin and sugar free.  And what about ‘mindful’?  Sometimes I swear these magazines just exist to mess with your head…

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