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'I am delighted that this matter has been resolved, and the record set straight.

I am not a hypocrite,' Winslet said through her solicitors.

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...ba href=/eating disorder/a/b grazia kate winslet settlement weight Kate Winslet Gets Big, Fat Apology by Josh Grossberg Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:29:00 AM PST RECOMMENDED (1) 5.0 COMMENTS (4) TEXT SIZE + A | -A Real women have curves.

Just ask Kate Winslet.The shapely British beauty on Friday won a public apology and undisclosed damages from a U.K.

magazine for a story erroneously claiming she had visited a diet doctor to help her shed some pounds.Winslet was not present for the libel hearing in London's High Court, but announced via her attorney a settlement with Grazia magazine.

The publication printed a mea culpa in its Mar.

5 edition and agreed to fork over legal fees and a "substantial" sum to an eating-disorder charity.At issue was an article that ran in the women's glossy last month reporting that the 31-year-old actor had stopped by the Chinese Healing Institute in California to consult with herbalist Dr.

Yi Pan about how to trim down.Winslet's camp insists she went there to be treated for a neck problem and that the magazine, owned by U.K.

publishing giant Emap, of making her out to be a hypocrite.

Winslet has been outspoken in her criticism of Hollywood's size-zero-obssessed culture, which she says results in self-esteem issues and ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs."Sorry Kate!

" proclaimed the chastened Grazia.

"We are satisfied that she did not go to [Dr Pan] seeking any treatment for weight loss.

We are very happy to set the record straight and sincerely apologize to Kate for the distress caused...

...ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs, it met the intended goal of boosting their knowledge about anorexia and bulimia.

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"It seems intuitively appealing to have recovered patients get up in front of high school or college-aged girls and tell the story of their ba href=/eating disorder/a/b and recovery," lead study author Dr.

Marlene B.

Schwartz told Reuters Health.

However, she explained, there's also the argument that having an attractive, articulate woman talk about her eating disorder could inadvertently "glamorize" the condition.

To investigate the question, Schwartz and her colleagues had 376 female high school students view one of two videos on ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs.

Both videos were the same, except for the "presenter." In one video, the presenter was a young woman identified as a doctor, who told the story of a typical eating disorder patient; in the other, the woman was a "recovered eat...