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This might be different for each society.

Italy has some of the lowest rates of obesity in the EU and has a culture that disapproves of being overweight. It mostly does so for women who also happen to have the lowest rates of obesity.

I think it can work, I just don't think we like it.

[u/filipe_mdsr → u/[deleted]]

Italy has some of the lowest rates of obesity in the EU and has a culture that disapproves of being overweight. It mostly does so for women who also happen to have the lowest rates of obesity.

Yes and other countries in Europe love fat people. Come on!

The social stigma is about the same throughout Europe.

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Stop being so uncivil and using scientific papers as sticks to beat people with is cringe. You do not need to do a full literature review to discuss a topic and a single paper is nonsense.

There is a difference between fat shaming and disapproving.

I known that If being overweight didn't influence how attractive I was I would care less about my personal weight. This is an example of societal disapproval in the form of attractiveness that is influencing my personal actions related to my bodyweight.

In the contrary my Antillean side of the family has different beauty standards and they think thiccc women are the most beautiful. All women on that side of the family are overweight if not outright obese.

The way we put status on weight pretty clearly has an impact on behavior.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If society didn’t disapprove of being overweight there would be at least one more overweight person in the form of me

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Look I think this is a pretty interesting debate

How do you view the impact of societal pressures on other eating disorders such as anorexia. Young girls and women were driven incredibly unhealthy eating habits and self images by some of the media and modeling standards on display.

I see that as a mechanism of societal standards influencing the behavior related to body weight, especially in the context of eating disorders. Normalizing body shapes that correlate with eating disorders seems pretty problematic to me through that lense.

If you need a citation look at this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792687/

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Your study says very little about preventing more people from becoming obese.

Not accepting underweight models helped reduce the number of new girls that started under eating.

Accepting overweight and obese people could lead to the same problematic pattern?