Some people feel our society is obsessed with thinness.What are 3 distinctly different types of evidence??
Answers: Advertising--TV, Magazines, Restaurants. Food Portions--most things are 2-3 time larger than they used to be,and are recommended to be. Clothes--today's size 8 used to be a 6, how can we not think we are fat if they keep shrinking the clothing sizes?
Watch any movie or tv show and you will see people who are at or near the low end of acceptible weight.
Plus size models wear a size 12
Fat people are considered lazy
McDonald's, Fried food, SUGAR ! many country's it is What is there to eat, in the U.S. , It's What do you want to eat ? most people choose high density foods, or sugar for the instand ON energy. I learned how to eat, and lost 60 lbs, some say I'm a tad thin, my nik is Bones , but, hey, It's better than Fat Fuc-
last nights news story... thin is in
every commercial, add, billboard.... thin people
ok well theres 2!
Why is it obsessed? Because it is not promoting fatness? Think before you ask.
Thin is healthier and sexier. Sex sells.
Here's a ton
This is from www.edap.org
42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner (Collins, 1991).
81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat (Mellin et al., 1991).
The average American woman is 5’4” tall and weighs 140 pounds. The average American model is 5’11” tall and weighs 117 pounds.
Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women (Smolak, 1996).
46% of 9-11 year-olds are “sometimes” or “very often” on diets, and 82% of their families are “sometimes” or “very often” on diets (Gustafson-Larson & Terry, 1992).
91% of women recently surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting,
22% dieted “often” or “always” (Kurth et al., 1995).
95% of all dieters will regain their lost weight in 1-5 years (Grodstein, et al., 1996).
35% of “normal dieters” progress to pathological dieting. Of those, 20-25% progress to partial or full-syndrome eating disorders (Shisslak & Crago, 1995).
25% of American men and 45% of American women are on a diet on any given day (Smolak, 1996).
Americans spend over $40 billion on dieting and diet-related products each year (Smolak, 1996).
Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives (Neumark-Sztainer, 2005).
Girls who diet frequently are 12 times as likely to binge as girls who don’t diet (Neumark-Sztainer, 2005)
1. ironically, the US has a high population of overweight persons AND a large portion of young anorexics.
2. Companies make MILLIONS off of selling thinness.
3. Heavy people are crying out about the fact that they are human and deserve fair treatment in work,society and esp. media attention.
Watch any movie or tv show and you will see people who are at or near the low end of acceptible weight.
Plus size models wear a size 12
Fat people are considered lazy
McDonald's, Fried food, SUGAR ! many country's it is What is there to eat, in the U.S. , It's What do you want to eat ? most people choose high density foods, or sugar for the instand ON energy. I learned how to eat, and lost 60 lbs, some say I'm a tad thin, my nik is Bones , but, hey, It's better than Fat Fuc-
last nights news story... thin is in
every commercial, add, billboard.... thin people
ok well theres 2!
Why is it obsessed? Because it is not promoting fatness? Think before you ask.
Thin is healthier and sexier. Sex sells.
Here's a ton
This is from www.edap.org
42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner (Collins, 1991).
81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat (Mellin et al., 1991).
The average American woman is 5’4” tall and weighs 140 pounds. The average American model is 5’11” tall and weighs 117 pounds.
Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women (Smolak, 1996).
46% of 9-11 year-olds are “sometimes” or “very often” on diets, and 82% of their families are “sometimes” or “very often” on diets (Gustafson-Larson & Terry, 1992).
91% of women recently surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting,
22% dieted “often” or “always” (Kurth et al., 1995).
95% of all dieters will regain their lost weight in 1-5 years (Grodstein, et al., 1996).
35% of “normal dieters” progress to pathological dieting. Of those, 20-25% progress to partial or full-syndrome eating disorders (Shisslak & Crago, 1995).
25% of American men and 45% of American women are on a diet on any given day (Smolak, 1996).
Americans spend over $40 billion on dieting and diet-related products each year (Smolak, 1996).
Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives (Neumark-Sztainer, 2005).
Girls who diet frequently are 12 times as likely to binge as girls who don’t diet (Neumark-Sztainer, 2005)
1. ironically, the US has a high population of overweight persons AND a large portion of young anorexics.
2. Companies make MILLIONS off of selling thinness.
3. Heavy people are crying out about the fact that they are human and deserve fair treatment in work,society and esp. media attention.
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