For a woman, the prospect of being photographed in your undies for the world to see elicits only one feeling: overwhelming, all-encompassing dread. Sure, most of us have good reason to be afraid -- extra flab, an unflattering stomach paunch and a lumpy bottom dimpled with cellulite is, in our minds, enough to scare the bejesus out of the general population.

But even stick-thin celebs like Victoria Beckham get anxious about having their near-naked bodies captured on film, apparently. According to recent reports, the fashionista ran nine miles a day for six months in order to look her absolute best for her recent Giorgio Armani Lingerie shoot. A source close to the star says, "Like any woman, she's conscious of her body, so she worked really hard to get into optimum shape."

Even so, her hard work wasn't enough to keep the images from being photoshopped. Which leaves me wondering -- if you have to re-rouch images of a teeny, tiny woman like that, what does that say for the rest of us?

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Back in September That's Fit first mentioned the controversial Italian advertising campaign featuring a 68 pound anorexic model, and now it's making headlines again: almost all (there's only 1 left in Rome) of the images have been pulled due to claims that they don't follow Italian advertising code of conduct standards. The photographer, Oliviero Toscani, is calling the move "censorship" and says he's considering legal action for moral and economic damages.

I personally don't think the ads should have been pulled, but regardless they've already made an enormous impact.

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We can read labels and count calories all day long, but getting the big picture on what exactly 200 of them look like is something valuable in itself. That's why this site is so interesting: it features over 70 pictures of food worth 200 calories!

Sorted from low to high calorie density, all images include the number of grams particular foods contain to equal 200 calories. Whether it is 308 grams of canned sweet corn, 196 grams of low fat yogurt, or a picture of one and a third hotdog, just about everything shown is a practical everyday food.

All of a sudden that spoonful of peanut butter seems a little more incriminating. Like they say, a picture's worth a thousand words (but thankfully not calories).

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