bikerboy
05-31-2006, 01:09 PM
What would you do to avoid being fat?
I go tthis off of the radio and got the site. You have to register with the washington post so I'll copy and paste it here. I thought it was a bit looney tune that people would actually go through those extremes to avoid being fat. I'll post it below, read how crazy people are.
This link while trying to find the info below came up. This is also a bit interesting. These people hate fat people and giving their 2c on fat people and how they despise them. http://www.angry.net/people/f/fat_people.htm
Here is the post on what'd you'd do to avoid being fat...
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Sacrificing to Avoid Obesity
Almost half of Americans would give up a year of their life to avoid being fat, according to a recent survey.
The online survey of 4,283 of Americans ages 13 to 79 also found that between 15 and 30 percent would rather leave their marriage, give up the possibility of having children, be depressed or become an alcoholic than be obese. Five percent said they would rather lose a limb, and 4 percent said they would rather be blind.
"We were surprised by the sheer number of people who reported they would be willing to make major sacrifices to avoid being obese. It drives home the message that weight bias is powerful and pervasive," said Marlene B. Schwartz of Yale University, who led the team that reported the results in the journal Obesity.
The primary purpose of the survey was to gauge anti-fat bias. People of all weight categories exhibited a significant implicit bias against people who are overweight, but thinner people tended to be more biased, the researchers found.
"The fact that even obese individuals exhibited a significant implicit anti-fat bias is important because it suggests that they have internalized negative stereotypes, such as believing they are lazy," Schwartz said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/28/AR2006052800866.html?sub=new
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I go tthis off of the radio and got the site. You have to register with the washington post so I'll copy and paste it here. I thought it was a bit looney tune that people would actually go through those extremes to avoid being fat. I'll post it below, read how crazy people are.
This link while trying to find the info below came up. This is also a bit interesting. These people hate fat people and giving their 2c on fat people and how they despise them. http://www.angry.net/people/f/fat_people.htm
Here is the post on what'd you'd do to avoid being fat...
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Sacrificing to Avoid Obesity
Almost half of Americans would give up a year of their life to avoid being fat, according to a recent survey.
The online survey of 4,283 of Americans ages 13 to 79 also found that between 15 and 30 percent would rather leave their marriage, give up the possibility of having children, be depressed or become an alcoholic than be obese. Five percent said they would rather lose a limb, and 4 percent said they would rather be blind.
"We were surprised by the sheer number of people who reported they would be willing to make major sacrifices to avoid being obese. It drives home the message that weight bias is powerful and pervasive," said Marlene B. Schwartz of Yale University, who led the team that reported the results in the journal Obesity.
The primary purpose of the survey was to gauge anti-fat bias. People of all weight categories exhibited a significant implicit bias against people who are overweight, but thinner people tended to be more biased, the researchers found.
"The fact that even obese individuals exhibited a significant implicit anti-fat bias is important because it suggests that they have internalized negative stereotypes, such as believing they are lazy," Schwartz said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/28/AR2006052800866.html?sub=new
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