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- Attitudes towards thinness and ideal body size are
formed as early as 3 years of age, according to Phebe
Cramer, Ph.D., and Tiffany Steinwert, Ph.D., in a 1998 Journal
of Applied Developmental Psychology. By elementary school
age, girls fear looking fat more than losing their parents,
getting cancer or a nuclear war.
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- Tens of millions of Americans are trying more or less
constantly to lose 20 or 30 pounds. (Recent estimates
are that, on any particular day, close to half the adult
population is on some sort of diet.) Most say they are doing
so for their health, often on the advice of their doctors
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- "An analysis by an insurance company has found that
women who were between 20 and 50 per cent overweight
cost less in health care than their thinner counterparts.
The good news for the larger woman - of the likes of Roseanne,
Dawn French and Jo Brand - is that the results have led
the company to revise its premiums.
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- "Seven of every ten women appearing as centrefold
models in Playboy magazine during the past 20 years are
clinically underweight, a new study has found. The results,
soon to be published in the International Journal of Obesity,
reinforce concerns that the body images in magazines and
other media are unrepresentative and possibly damaging.
(Reference: Katzmarzyk, P., T. & Davis,
C. Thinness and body shape of Playboy centrefolds 1978--1998.
International Journal of Obesity )
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- Is well known that hospitals and other health care facilities
and equipment (such as cat scans and MRIs) are often inaccessible
to large people.Large people are systematically denied health
insurance and life insurance, or they are forced to pay
higher premiums than those of average weight.Landlords,
housing agencies, and real estate agents often deny larger
people apartments, or show them only inferior locations,
to prevent them from moving into the neighborhood.
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- There are many other aspects of size discrimination. The
Council has consulted with a person who was denied membership
in a travelling choir because of her weight, large-size
couples who were turned down as adoptive parents, and a
man who was asked to accept a refund on his gym membership
because customers had complained that they didn't like to
look at his body. Public facilities are inaccessible to
many large people because of turnstiles, narrow armchairs,
narrow doors, hallways, and stairs, and small bathrooms.
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- The strong social pressure to be thin began after World-War
II (Seid, 1994). Magazines began showing thinner images
of models as both pornography and the women's movement increased
(Wooley, 1994). Faludi (1991) states that when society makes
women conform to such a thin standard, it becomes a form
of oppression towards women and a way of ensuring their
inability to compete on equal grounds.
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- ONLY TWO PERCENT OF WOMEN DESCRIBE THEMSELVES AS BEAUTIFUL
New Global Study Uncovers Desire for Broader Definition
of Beauty.
NEW YORK, September 29, 2004 - Dove® unveils a groundbreaking
new study today that discusses the implications of a global
society that narrowly defines beauty by the images seen
in entertainment, advertising and fashion runways and the
startling impact this has on women. The result: only two
percent of thousands of women from 10 countries around the
world consider themselves beautiful. Does this mean that
we live in a world where women are not beautiful or does
it mean that women around the world are calling for a broader
definition of beauty?
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- A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
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- Americans eat 20.7 pounds of candy per person annually.
The Dutch
eat three times as much.
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- Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine (PEA), a natural
substance that
is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as
falling in
love.
World wide, consumers spend more than $7 billion a year
on
chocolate. Annual per capita consumption of chocolate is
12 pounds
per person.
Each American eats an average of 51 pounds of chocolate
per year.
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- Fried chicken is the most popular meal ordered in sit-down
restaurants in the US. The next in popularity are: roast
beef,
spaghetti, turkey, baked ham, and fried shrimp.
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- Potato chips are American's favorite snack food. They
are devoured
at a rate of 1.2 billion pounds a year.
Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by
chef
George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who
complained
that his French fries were too thick.
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- When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within
a period
of 20 minutes.
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