[Saladin]

I'm doing a school project and my thesis is that "society has becoming far too accepting of obesity which has resulted in a rise in obesity".

Any research to support that thesis? I remember seeing a scholarly article that stated overweight women often thought they were skinny even if they weren't.

I'll Pm the final project to anyone who wants to read it, just having some trouble finding research on the effects of social shaming on obesity. All the current studies seem to be about how obesity lowers self esteem but nothing on the other way around.

Anything on the correlation between obesity and lack of discipline would be great too.

Deep down we all know obesity occurs because of laziness and a lack of social shaming in westerners regarding the issue.

[pitt]

You tried google scholar? You may want to type it there, i always find great information on it.

[Saladin]

(12-15-2011 12:30 AM)pitt Wrote:  

You tried google scholar? You may want to type it there, i always find great information on it.

Yeah, thats what I'm doing. I'm trying out different searches.

I'm finding some good studies on how calories taken in have increased along with obesity. Basically fat people are fat fucks because they eat too much and eat shitty food too.

[Saladin]

http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/9578232/reload=0;jsessionid=1AB733ACD77B86AB6A6D2E1F7CF11E08


Obesity didn't affect a girls popularity or self esteem in the UK.

" Body weight had no impact on girls' rated importance of self-esteem domains. Heavier girls were significantly less likely to be peer nominated as pretty, but did not differ in their popularity."

Science confirms another scary belief.

[Saladin]

http://bachman.hul.harvard.edu:9034/bits...sequence=2Calories taken in have increased.

Another interesting figure is on page 97, 18 percent of single males were found to be fat compared to 32 percent of single females in 1994. I'll try finding some updated figures.

[gringochileno]

Try pubmed.gov. It's mainly for medical research but you might find it useful due to the sheer volume of studies that are aggregated on it. I'm sure you could find something on the psychosocial aspects of obesity. You need a subscription to view the full text of most of the studies but you can look at the abstracts for free. PM me if you need the full text of anything and I can get it for you.

[WesternCancer]

Aside from scholarly articles you could research the fat acceptance movement and websites/organizations affiliated with it. You might be able to prove a trend or relate these sites/organizations to another kind of organization in order to correlate it to a rise in obesity.