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20th May 2015
06:46pm BST
In a post published to their website, the piece read:
‘Firstly, we haven't, and will never promote any eating disorders in YOGA Magazine. We were not promoting bulimia, but answering a genuine reader question who had asked whether this exercise that he had found in a textbook dating back to the 1950s was true or not. We decided to answer this question as we felt this was rather interesting, and different to the usual standard questions we receive each month, such as 'What exercises are good for a bad back?'
'The journalist who contacted us for a quote made reference to the fact that ‘we provided a caution to pregnant women and children’ – as obviously this technique is not safe for these people to perform. Would it not be extremely insensitive if we added ‘not suitable for anyone suffering from eating disorders?’'Explore more on these topics:
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