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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My post: "This is a size 12. A REAL size 12 and not today's vanity sizing."
I wonder what evidence he/she had. About the best you could do is conduct surveys and hope the respondents were honest with their answers.
I suppose it would depend on how big the beer gut is or if she just happens to have big bone structure.
I definitely wouldn't throw her out of bed for eating crackers!!
Just do what makes you feel good about yourself.
:) Sure was! They dressed her down for her comedic rolls!
My misinterpretation of your post. And thank you for the photos - I couldn't agree more with your choice of examples. Both are beautiful, feminine and classy - not the coathangers of today.
Wow. She was hot! At my age (28) all I ever saw of her were old "I Love Lucy" reruns...
Now I can see WHY he loved Lucy!
That cat on the sofa looks terrified that she's gonna sit down...
Sam if you mean it I think I love you ;-)
Geeeze...I know I saw the blond in the middle in Panera yesterday...it was NOT a pretty sight! I saw that belly hanging over her pant top and her too short tee-shirt.
This article all but ignores the fact that there are A LOT of fat men out there, and yet we seem to accept them just fine overall. It's the fat chicks we're just now starting to accept? How nice. Fat, male or female, is fat. And it ain't all that attractive.
Tons of tv commercials show slim wives with chunky, bloated husbands. Ditto with tv shows. No one says a word against it. Yet the Dove ad campaign recently, showing normal sized women in plain cotton underwear, drew all sorts of outrage and attention. How dare they show women with hips and breasts! (The heaviest woman shown probably only topped out at 160lbs and she was 5'9" or so. Hardly obese.) And it cracks me up to see fat guys and guys with big, nasty bellies, looking down on average sized women (size 8-14) and going for the uber-skinny types. Talk about denial.
Full disclosure: my non-pregnant jeans size is an 8-10. SInce I'm 29 weeks pregnant, I have an excuse for my extra 20 pounds. :)
BTTT
Being somewhat overweight is different that just a fat flabby lazy individual, no woman wants to be anorexic for the most part, and women truly do not want a rump the size of J-Lo they just want to be in shape for there size with good energy....
I say she should keep the lyrics in #66 above in mind as she contemplates this choice.
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