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Very few overweight women happy
ScienceDaily ^ | 6/30/05 | UPI

Posted on 06/30/2005 3:37:52 PM PDT by beavus

LONDON, June 30 (UPI) -- Only 1 percent of overweight women in a British survey said they are happy with their shape, blaming the celebrity culture for their attitude.

Of the 4,000 overweight women questioned by the National Slimming Survey, 83 percent said they suffered from deep "self-loathing". Some 91 percent felt depressed and 79 percent said they felt "utter despair."

Two-thirds of overweight women said they have felt like "life is not worth living," Sky News reported.

The survey also said 74 percent admitted to hiding food in their bedroom, car, garage or garden. About half of respondents removed size labels from clothing.

Among 1,000 men questioned in the same survey, 94 percent said they felt "like second-class citizens."

Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
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To: Physicist

LOL. Now that's funny.


161 posted on 06/30/2005 8:47:45 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Physicist

Oddly, I think we are raising both boys and girls to have very little respect for themselves. I hope that my children will learn to hold their head high and put their best foot forward. In real life, beauty is a combination of effort and attitude...for men and women.


162 posted on 06/30/2005 8:49:52 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: cyborg
I've managed to trap...I mean meet a nice man :o)

Hey!

163 posted on 06/30/2005 8:53:23 PM PDT by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain! ---- IAGO: You are--a senator.)
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To: cyborg
I don't think men can help themselves when looking at younger girls.

I am a connoisseur of female pulchritude. Every time I ogle another woman, it serves as a deep compliment to Mrs. P. You see, in a world overflowing with beautiful women, my well-trained eye has selected her as its paragon.

164 posted on 06/30/2005 8:56:49 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: cyborg
Now that I'm not single anymore and happy, more guys look at me *LOL*

And for that, they must die.

165 posted on 06/30/2005 8:57:06 PM PDT by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain! ---- IAGO: You are--a senator.)
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To: Thinkin' Gal

And to think I was considering going to a one-piece!!


166 posted on 06/30/2005 9:21:41 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (Ted Kennedy - isn't it time for you to diet?)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Very few overweight women happy
ScienceDaily ^ | 6/30/05 | UPI..........

So, my standard anymore is not to be thin as I was in college, but I'd like to look better on a horse, and feel better about being sexy. My husband doesn't mind me.... we've only been married a year, and he didn't know me thin, but I mind.


If this thread is about: "Very Few Overweight Women Happy," maybe including yourself(?), why do you have anything against, if there IS a way that these women CAN be happy again?
Or, are we just here to be engaged in YOUR babble about the "Hobbit Hole"???
167 posted on 06/30/2005 9:40:15 PM PDT by danamco
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To: danamco

Listen. You spammed the thread about your website and your products, and you followed up in FRMail It's against the rules, as I've heard them, to sell things on Free Republic. I am not here for ads.


168 posted on 06/30/2005 10:03:12 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: surelyclintonsbaddream; greeneyes23

Extreme weight loss picture ping.


169 posted on 07/01/2005 1:32:18 AM PDT by scott7278 (Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I would like to know what we)
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To: Thinkin' Gal

thanks for the metric ton ping..lol


170 posted on 07/01/2005 5:14:27 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: wizardoz

Julie Andrews was in constant psychoanalysis for years and years.

But British women do seem angry and unhappy to me. I dont think I have known of a happy British woman.


171 posted on 07/01/2005 5:18:02 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cyborg

I don't know about "we" being envious of younger better looking women.

I guess I am really old here because I love young good looking women. They are like beautiful young animals all energetic and cute. I have three daughters in their 30's so maybe that colors things. But I love looking at young people, men and women,,,they sort of make me feel happy.

And my husband having had three daughters adores young women. They sort of flock around him and he just loves their attention, they make him smile, nothing lecherous about him. I think he just has joy in their being young and beautiful and sweet. It is one of his most endearing qualities.

Maybe we are just old and beyond envy and such.


172 posted on 07/01/2005 5:27:02 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: mollynme
"Sheesh! That's a lot of suicidal ladies. Either that or overly dramatic."

They're not serious...they still have more to eat...
173 posted on 07/01/2005 5:46:33 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: SampleMan

"Has anyone here met an English woman who was happy?"

Have you looked at many English women? Moreover, have you looked at many English men...?


174 posted on 07/01/2005 5:48:29 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: RavenATB
have you looked at many English men...?

Oh yeah. Just ignore the politics.

175 posted on 07/01/2005 6:09:39 AM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Petronski; cyborg
And for that, they must die.

LOL!

I like him...he's silly.

176 posted on 07/01/2005 7:02:32 AM PDT by RosieCotton (The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: cajungirl
Julie Andrews was in constant psychoanalysis for years and years.

Oh. LOL! Okay, well... that was my only shot.

177 posted on 07/01/2005 7:09:42 AM PDT by wizardoz
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To: OpusatFR

You don't sound at all overweight. BMI is crap. It doesn't even take GENDER into account which is just ridiculous. My doctor said it works almost perfectly for a 5'3 small framed woman but outside those parameters it's garbage.


178 posted on 07/01/2005 8:06:55 AM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: Shaq ONeal

and that's why you lost in the playoffs..


179 posted on 07/01/2005 8:07:54 AM PDT by ken5050
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