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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda WEDNESDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) — Even after they shed their excess
pounds, formerly obese women still have to contend with “anti-fat
prejudice,” according to a new study.
Researchers asked young women and men to read about women who had
either lost 70 pounds of excess weight or had stayed the same weight
(weight-stable), and who were either currently obese or currently
thin.
The participants were then asked about some of the women’s attributes,
including their attractiveness.
“We were surprised to find that currently thin women were viewed
differently depending on their weight history,” study leader Janet Latner,
of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said in a news release from the
University of Manchester, in England. “Those who had been obese in the
past were perceived as less attractive than those who had always been
thin, despite having identical height and weight.”
The participants also showed greater bias against obese people after
they had read about women who had lost weight, compared to after reading
about weight-stable women — regardless of whether the weight-stable women
were thin or obese.
The findings, published May 29 in the journal Obesity, suggest
that the stigma of obesity is so powerful that it can continue even after
an obese person has lost weight.
The researchers said they were particularly troubled by the finding
that participants’ negative attitudes towards obese people increased when
they were falsely told that body weight is easily controlled.
“The message we often hear from society is that weight is highly
controllable, but the best science in the obesity field at the moment
suggests that one’s physiology and genetics, as well as the food
environment, are the really big players in one’s weight status and weight
loss,” study co-author Kerry O’Brien, from the University of Manchester
School of Psychological Sciences and Monash University in Melbourne, in
Australia, noted in the news release.
“Weight status actually appears rather uncontrollable, regardless of
one’s willpower, knowledge and dedication. Yet many people who are
perceived as ‘fat’ are struggling in vain to lose weight in order to
escape this painful social stigma. We need to rethink our approaches to,
and views of, weight and obesity,” O’Brien noted.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases offers advice about choosing a safe and effective weight-loss program.
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