Posted on 01/11/2006 1:06:53 PM PST by misterrob
Thin is still in, but apparently fat is nowhere near as out as it used to be.
A survey finds America's attitudes toward overweight people are shifting from rejection toward acceptance. Over a 20-year period, the percentage of Americans who said they find overweight people less attractive steadily dropped from 55 percent to 24 percent, the market research firm NPD Group found.
With about two-thirds of U.S. adults overweight, Americans seem more accepting of heavier body types, researchers say. The NPD survey of 1,900 people representative of the U.S. population also found other more relaxed attitudes about weight and diet.
While body image remains a constant obsession, the national preoccupation with being thin has waned since the late 1980s and early 1990s, said the NPD's Harry Balzer.
Those were the days when fast food chains rushed to install salad bars. In 1989, salads as a main course peaked at 10 percent of all restaurant meals. Today, those salad bars have all but vanished and salads account for just 5 1/2 percent of main dishes.
"It turns out health is a wonderful topic to talk about," Balzer said. "But to live that way is a real effort."
Fewer people said they're trying to "avoid snacking entirely" — just 26 percent in 2005, down from 45 percent in 1985 — while 75 percent said they had low-fat, no-fat or reduced fat products in the last two weeks, down from 86 percent in 1999, according to the survey.
At 5-feet-6 and 230 pounds, Lara Frater likes her body just fine and turns up her nose at trendy diets.
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All doing fine, and looking forward to seeing the new brother soon!
Get back to work - I have to go lie down, my feet swell up in the evenings :-). Two weeks or bust!
Let me fix that for you:
I'm 5'6" and weigh 135lbs and he says I'm too heavy **for him**. He wants me to weigh 125lbs or less. I admit that I feel better at 125lbs but heavy at 135lbs??? I think my BMI is about 21.
Congratulations on the baby! I was wondering what you'd produced (as it were). Almost 3 months old already ... sigh ...
Ping to 132! This one is a hoot!
I've gained all the weight you lost, you bastid.
Best . . . translation . . . EVER.
Amen brother!
A buddy tried fixin' me up last night.
I took one look, it was a comical sight.
He said she was thin. Man was he ever right!
She looked like Kate Moss on a hunger strike!
Let me tell you, brother how it ought to be:
It takes a well-rounded woman to satisfy me!
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Boney ain't beautiful. Bite your lip.
Skinny women ain't hip.
I've been watchin' television, readin' magazines; All them women in their skin tight jeans.
Call 'em super models, but I'll tell you what: A
model ain't super ain't super if she ain't got a butt!
Give me trailer park Tammy or single wide Sue,
They could tell Calvin Klein a thing or two!
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Boney ain't beautiful. Bite your lip.
Skinny women ain't hip.
So, if your skinny as a rail and you think you're hot,
You might be makin' the most of everything you got.
I don't want to be ruthless, I dont mean to be rude
But give me a call when you're on solid food!
This Barbie Doll thang, it's all in your mind.
Quit starvin' yourself, babe, you're lookin' just fine!
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Boney ain't beautiful. Bite your lip.
Skinny women ain't hip.
You're still hot, Xena. No worries.
Skinny Women Ain't Hip
Written by Antsy McClain (Performed by the Trailer Park Troubadors)
A buddy tried fixin' me up last night.
I took one look, it was a comical sight.
He said she was thin. Man was he ever right!
She looked like Kate Moss on a hunger strike!
Let me tell you, brother how it ought to be:
It takes a well-rounded woman to satisfy me!
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Boney ain't beautiful. Bite your lip.
Skinny women ain't hip.
I've been watchin' television, readin' magazines; All
them skinny women in their skin tight jeans.
Call 'em super models, but I'll tell you what: A
model ain't super ain't super if she ain't got a butt!
Give me trailer park Tammy or single wide Sue,
They could tell Calvin Klein a thing or two!
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Boney ain't beautiful. Bite your lip.
Skinny women ain't hip.
So, if your skinny as a rail and you think you're hot,
You might be makin' the most of everything you got.
I don't want to be ruthless, I dont mean to be rude
But give me a call when you're on solid food!
This Barbie Doll thang, it's all in your mind.
Quit starvin' yourself, babe, you're lookin' just fine!
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Skinny women ain't hip. Skinny women ain't hip.
Boney ain't beautiful. Bite your lip.
Skinny women ain't hip.
I snorted so loudly, my kids came running. I had to tell them it wouldn't be funny to them, they were so disappointed.
amen!
Gay fashion males hate curves on a woman because they can never have them.
Hah! Not quite as crude as "Baby Got Back", but it certainly expresses the same truth.
Yep. Mother Nature won't let them have those curves (thank God).
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
Beware the bread!!!!
That's the real clue in.
What about bread?
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