At this years London Fashion Week, world famous designer Giorgio Armani spoke out against the fashion industrys obsession with anorexic looking models. A designer of high art and integrity, Armani stated he never wanted to use unhealthy looking women to show off his works -- instead blaming the interfering of stylists and the media in their demand for ultra-thin models.

The remarks were made in response to an earlier ban at Madrids fashion week, keeping women with extremely low body mass index measurements -- and potential eating disorders -- off the red carpets and away from the cameras -- as a way of protecting the minds of young women, and their future heart health.

Armani made these comments at the years most highly anticipated, star-studded fashion benefit for (PRODUCT) RED -- spawned by U2s Bono to raise money to fight AIDS in Africa.

Intuitive Eating is about making peace with food. Fostering a healthy relationship with food. Giving yourself permission to eat anything you want. The philosophy is more practical common sense than it is revolutionary -- but perhaps it is revolutionary in the common sense of learning to listen to your body when it sends you both hunger signals and then when it tells you it is full. The very nature of dieting teaches us to ignore all signals. Over time, we lose touch.

In the book Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works, Evelyn Tribole, former nutrition expert for Good Morning America and currently a dietitian with a counseling practice, and Elyse Resch, nutrition therapist for 24 years, specializing in eating disorders and preventative nutrition states that you can learn how to reject the diet mentality forever; learn how the three eating personalities define our eating difficulties; and how to honor hunger and feel fullness by following their program.

To begin, they offer the Are you an Intuitive Eater? quiz on the Intuitive Eating website. While there, you can read research and articles that explain more about learning to unlearn everything most of us have been taught about losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight. Although eating anything you want might seem absolutely backwards, it might be the most forward approach suggested in the last 40 years.

Women who accept and appreciate their bodies as they are also exhibit healthier eating habits, reports a new study from Ohio State University. A positive self-image can help women maintain the healthy habits that prevent heart disease.

Obesity in women -- which can lead to heart problems -- often results from emotional eating, used to cope with stress and other unpleasant feelings. In past research, intuitive eating, defined as eating to relieve hunger and achieve fullness, instead of emotional eating -- was found directly linked to a lower body mass index measurement in women.

This new study found that women who exhibited intuitive eating habits also reported a much higher appreciation and acceptance of their own bodies.

This summer, tens of thousands of British children will fight obesity and prevent future heart disease by exercising in mini gyms. Filled with child-sized workout machines such as treadmills, weight lifting machines and exercise bikes, mini gyms provide kids with a fun active alternative to their daily average of four hours in front of the TV or computer.

Fifteen percent of children age 2 to 11 in Britain are obese, with another 15 percent overweight. Kids aged 5 and older are attracted to the mini gyms for their grown-up feel, and the opportunity to learn new exercises with their friends. The mini gyms are a non-competitive environment -- a positive aspect that helps obese and overweight children feel comfortable exercising with other kids. Nutrition advice and education are also offered by mini gym staff. The mini gyms popularity is spreading across the globe, with child-sized gyms opening in Sweden, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Some adults object to gyms targeted at children -- for fear it will instill narcissism and non-cooperative behavior in children exercising in a mirrored environment. Another argument is that it will create a new wave of body image issues in young girls. Mini gym staff took notice recently as a group of girls around age 10 began weighing themselves obsessively. The weight scales found in the corner of the mini gym were subsequently removed.

David Davidson has extremely harsh words for websites that promote anorexia in characterizing them as being "complicit in the murder and suicide of young people." This is a personal issue that hits close to home. His daughter suffered from anorexia.

Psychologist Deanne Jade, head of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, is equally outspoken about pro-ana websites when she said, "To some people they may serve a useful purpose, a place of support. But they are the porn of eating disorders. "

Davidson has turned his attention to the growing number of pro-ana websites where girls can receive advice on how to hide their eating disorder from family and friends -- even doctors -- and where they can connect and find support from other girls with anorexia. According to Davidson, the pro-ana websites use sickly skinny celebrities as thinspiration role models for these young girls. Some of the celebrities popular on these websites are Victoria Beckham, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan and Keira Knightley.

He understands freedom of speech but he wants these websites and blogs shut down. Realistically, that is not possible. The very nature of the internet makes this type of censorship impossible.

"There are too many sites, on too many hosts, and there are too many users – if one site closes, another one opens," states Steve Bloomfield of the Eating Disorders Association. "Very few of these site owners refer to the serious health effects of anorexia, such as osteoporosis, damaged fertility and the significant increase of heart disease."

Davidson, Jade and other eating disorder experts have identified a real problem. What will be the real solution?

The Sunday Herald quotes Jenna, a pro-ana blogger, as saying she finds the pro-ana websites useful and a place where she has many friends. "I hate being under pressure to eat, and I think being ana means being pretty. I do feel awful sometimes, but it is worth it when you put on size six jeans."

New research has revealed information as to why shift workers; people who suffer jet-lag; people with sleep disorders or people advancing in age seem to have more heart disease compared to people in other groups.

Researchers have discovered there is an internal body clock that regulates enzyme production in the liver. These enzymes determine how the liver handles the food we eat and potentially toxic metabolites. The problem is the enzymes function at different levels depending on the time of day.

According to Dr Michael Hastings, who led the research, "Circadian rhythms or our internal body clock adapt us to the solar and social 24 hour world by driving our daily rhythms of behaviour, physiology and metabolism. When these natural cycles go awry we perform less well and feel dreadful. In particular, when our body clocks are disturbed so as to cause a mismatch between when and what we eat and what the body is able to process at meal times, nutrients are handled less effectively, for example fats will not be cleared from the blood stream and blood sugar levels will not be regulated appropriately." This research is published in the journal Current Biology.

Heart attack during pregnancy has been linked to a trend in older mothers. The women who participated in this study also had pre-existing conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, in addition to related pregnancy disorders.

The incidence of heart attack during pregnancy doubled over a ten-year period, occurring primarily in women over 30 and 40. For most, these were not their first pregnancy. Fifty-nine percent of heart attacks occurred during delivery, and around seven percent of the women who had heart attacks before or during delivery died. Scientists are unsure of the exact cause for these attacks, although they do attribute it partially to the delay in child-bearing. They urge doctors to be aware of this phenomenon in pregnant women over 30 with pre-existing blood pressure and diabetic conditions.