Shocking: “Body Positive” Models Are Normalizing Obesity And Making The Problem Worse

Via Daily Mail:

Plus-size clothing ranges and models such as Ashley Graham may be normalising obesity, it has been warned, as growing numbers of people fail to realise they are overweight.

A study of more than 23,000 people has found more than half of men do not recognise they are overweight or obese. Almost a third of women underestimate their true weight, compared to under a quarter two decades ago.

The results are concerning because those who misjudge their size are 85 per cent less likely to try to lose weight.

The University of East Anglia research found only about half of overweight people were making efforts to slim down, which could put them at greater risk of heart attacks, strokes and type 2 diabetes.

Study author Dr Raya Muttarak said plus-size clothing ranges, such as Marks & Spencer’s Curve range for ‘curvy’ women sized 18 to 32, may be behind people’s denial about their weight.

She said: ‘Seeing the huge potential of the fuller-sized fashion market, retailers may have contributed to the normalisation of being overweight and obese.

‘While this type of body positive movement helps reduce stigmatisation of larger-sized bodies, it can potentially undermine the recognition of being overweight and its health consequences.

The increase in weight misperception in England is alarming and possibly a result of this normalisation.’

There has been a rise on the high street in ‘vanity sizing’, where dress sizes are inflated for women with larger waists and hips and bigger busts, to flatter them that they wear a smaller size. Experts say this can ‘undermine’ action to lose weight.

The study analysed the Health Survey for England, to find the answers of 23,459 people asked whether they were about the right weight, too heavy or too light.

The results, analysed for five years between 1997 and 2015, show the proportion of overweight men in denial has leapt from 48.4 per cent to 57.9 per cent in that period.

At the same time, the proportion of overweight women misjudging their weight has jumped from 24.5 per cent to 30.6 per cent.

The study, published in the journal Obesity, says the normalisation of being large has become ‘widespread’ in England, with men most likely to ignore their weight problem.

On the Marks & Spencer range, Dr Muttarak wrote: ‘By introducing a new design and styling tailored for plus-size customers and using carefully selected fabrics complementing fuller figures, Curve primarily contributes to promoting body positivity.

‘While this type of body-positive movement helps reduce stigmatisation of larger-sized bodies, it can potentially undermine the recognition of being overweight and its health consequences.’

Among people who were overweight and obese, 38.5 per cent of men and 17.2 per cent of women thought they were ‘about the right weight’. The proportion of obese men misperceiving their weight in 2015 was almost double that seen in 1997.

People who underestimated their weight were 85 per cent less likely to try to lose it, with only 51.8 per cent of those who were overweight in the study telling the Health Survey they were trying to shed the pounds.

Almost two-thirds of adults in Britain are overweight or obese, with the study focusing on those with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or over, classed as overweight, and of 30 or over, classed as obese.

Dr Muttarak, a senior lecturer in UEA’s School of International Development, said: ‘Identifying those prone to misperceiving their weight can help in designing obesity-prevention strategies targeting the specific needs of different groups.’

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106 thoughts on “Shocking: “Body Positive” Models Are Normalizing Obesity And Making The Problem Worse”

    1. Not only that but the level of denial these fatties have is astonishing. just look at this shit

      Read the replies under “Brakathor” comment and enjoy……
      they actually think they’re experts in nutrition and everyone else is wrong.

      1. Wow! What a dramatic transformation. What a huge difference weight makes!
        The woman in the video went from a 9.9 to about a 6.5 on the attractiveness scale (her pretty face and long hair help her stay reasonably attractive – plus she’s just overweight not morbidly obese or anything -yet).
        Ashley Graham (mentioned in the Daily Mail article) is also clearly overweight (but not morbidly so), yet benefits from a pretty face, long hair, nice big boobs, and great curves. She is probably also about a 6.5-7, but could reach 9.5+ if she dropped weight.
        The woman in the photos in this article is in a radically different category. She is horribly and extremely fat, morbidly obese. That is EXTRAORDINARY unattractive! I’d rank her about a 1.2, and she could have been 8.5+ were she thin, and didn’t have the disgusting tatoos. Seriously damaged woman
        Weight makes such a difference in looks. This reminds me that I need to lose 10-15 pounds (currently 217lbs at 6’4″ and above average muscularity – lift a lot) . My wife also needs to drop about 15 (5’4″ 140lbs). We aren’t bad now, but look great at 205 and 125 respectively (in mid 40s).

    2. Pacific islanders have the survivalist ‘conservation’ gene and store every bit of fat they consume.
      A Hawaiian man, Israel Kamakawiwo (I959-I997) weighed 750 lbs at 6’2″ (bmi=91). He was full blooded islander so the name ‘Israel’ was elective.

      He simply had too many food options. The islanders thrive best in a starvation situation. Otherwise they blow up literally.Most Pacific islands have obesity rates above 90%. ‘IZZY’ Kamakawiwo likely ate processed foods in excess and exceeded intake of fat dishes like mutton. His body was optimally designed to survive on a severly limited diet of macronutrients like 1-3 coconuts/week, foraged shrubs and fish when available. The Hawaii flag flew half staff when he died in 1997.

      1. I was at a hotel in Niagara Falls with a very good all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. There were some Pacific Islanders like Samoans or something there, and the amounts of food they were eating was unreal. And yes, they were all fatties to varying degrees. That “conservation” gene theory makes a lot of sense to me. I think blacks must have it to some degree also.
        Shame for this guy tho. He was quite a talent.

        1. My girl is a size 4 and felt that she was getting a little soft so she fasted for a week and dropped ten pounds.
          She hardly eats much already but she looks even better now.

        2. The negro slaves who survived the trip to America we’re the ones who were genetically predisposed to retain water/salt. Small wonder that their descendants have such high hypertension rates.

        3. @WayneStar
          I was told about the sodium/water retention theory by a black female physician. I couldn’t believe it at first but then it made sense. Yes, sodium via fa(s)t food is killing them and us.
          The hypertension rates among the black population are astronomical and when I worked in the ER I saw kids as young as 15 with massive hypertension, diabetes and renal disease.

      2. I was bummed the day “Bruddah Iz” died, and was on the Big Island when it happened. Nonstop Iz on the jawaiian radio for days. Lots of roadside shell memorials around Kona. Too much SPAM in the diet. All the locals said they saw it coming. “Over the Rainbow”

    3. It doesn’t matter how much ‘they’ normalize fat girls, I still won’t want to bang anyone over 50Kg. (ok, 60kg if I’m really, really drunk)

      1. Speak for yourself. I love banging big girls. Soft, juicy, lots to grab on to, and it’s a full body workout.

    4. I’m so bloody sick of these disgusting pig-bodied lardarses everywhere. They look like they need to be hauled around on barges and turned over on each side with a forklift. Big fat lardarses farting and stinking up the damn place because they can’t reach around far enough to wipe their half dead diabetic arseholes. Nuke these stinky porkers all to fkn hell I say.

    1. Anyone besides me notice that it’s the fatties who are more likely to be tatted up? Don’t know if they’re trying to distract others from their fattiness and get them more focused on the tats, doing it trying to be cool/hip in spite of their hambeastness, or they just think it somehow makes them more attractive cuz nothing else can.
      To us normal people it just makes ’em look even more hideous. I can’t imagine being a young guy now and trying to find a girlfriend.

    2. These women are lazy pigs or naive victims of the carb. pushing farming and food industries, with state food pyramid naivety/collusion. They will/have develop Type 2 diabetes, and brain damage leading to Alzheimer’s and/or strokes, and the inflammatory damage to their joints and vascular system will make life and sex less enjoyable. This health doom will also cause informed male nexting.
      See “Wheat Brain” by David Perlmutter.
      Excess fat is caused by excess carbohydrates, including from grains, Fruit, Milk other sugars. Much more than 5% (non-resistant starch or sugar) carbohydrate in food and drink per day is excessive compared to pre-agricultural (Paleo Keto) human diet; as high as 60% is idiocy!
      There is even evidence that Type 1 (auto-immune) Diabetes can be prevented or worked around by switching to a Paleo Keto diet, because you don’t need insulin to burn fat as energy.

  1. It’s funny that in 2004, Jon Stewart (Of all people) wrote a joke about “Obeausity: Around 2015, Americans will realize it would be easier to change their standard of beauty than to lose weight. From that point on, we will embrace our indulgent lifestyles. Gyms will close, fad binge books will rule, and singles ads will end with the phrase ‘Yes Fatties’.”
    This is Poe’s Law in real time. With the Left barreling towards stupidity and degeneracy, the slippery slope looks more like a Wisconsin Dells water slide.

    1. All of this is true except for the gyms closing part. Gyms are here to stay as for every 100 pigs there is 1 narcissistic, egotistic and self absorbed bodybuilder, gym rat or fitness chick.

      1. Just 1? Where I am there are a boatload of chickies who are doing shows in bikini and figure class..and boy do they think they are the cat’s meow….and the cl!t sucking that their sauced up gym bro guy friends engage in is trully sickening….you haven’t seen true female narcisscism till you screw around with one of these…last girl i dated was a “bikini” girl…trully effed in the head…but she looked pretty tasty naked with the exception of being 4 weeks out and under for a show..aka a mutant pageant.

        1. Yea man. I know the types. What gets me is how many gym bros don’t have the balls to go after some of these high-n-mighty fitness girls, and actually pedestalize them. While many gym bros have the body-side down of game, most still don’t have the red-pilled mindset to bag them with any consistency. I just laugh at what the gym community has resolved to. I’d say fitness chicks are a dime a dozen but they’re not unless you’re in a happening city, however, the operation of their brains and egos is predictably a penny a dozen.

        2. I briefly dated a fitness competitor too. They look wretched the week of the competition but the rest of the time they’re pretty fantastic to see.
          The worst part wasn’t the show week look, it was that we could hardly ever go anyplace or eat anything fun.
          This rare problem is the exception that proved the “mostly fatties” rule.

  2. I do some voluntary work, yesterday we were at a highly regarded private school that specialises in sport. Know how many overweight kids were there? None. Some of the rugby team could easily kick a grown man’s ass. It’s not glandular. I did see a video about a fat black woman that may run half marathons, but she is an absolute outlier.

    1. @Lands
      My sister lives in a fairly well to do neighbourhood. When my nieces were little we went to some birthday party place. What did I notice? The inbred kids in the next party room were out of shape porkers and so were the moms. The kids in our room were ALL trim and so were the yummy mummies. Absolutely tied to socio-econmics, education and what the parent is doing.

  3. Funny, but when I visit Britain, I never see nearly the % of fatties I do in the USA, and I’m talking across all age groups.

    1. Half of British are overweight now, maybe not like the behemoths you get in your part of the world, but definitely in a shit state. Our portion sizes here are jewy, you’d think we were still on wartime rations, except we pay a fortune for it.

  4. You guys specifically calling out fat women must have missed the multiple points in the article that state that there are many more men who don’t recognize that they are fat than there are women who don’t. Statistically, odds are that you are sitting there drinking a beer or a coke saying “not me, I’m not a ripped fitness model but I’m not overweight, I get laid all the time” when yes, you really are overweight. If history shows us anything, women will follow the leadership of men – the best thing you can do to fight this epidemic is to be an example of what to strive towards.

    1. What u talkin about… of course I’m not fat. I’m 1.7m height, 70kg, 45% muscle and 15% fat and I do gym so I have the right to fatshame all I want!

    2. “You guys specifically calling out fat women”, Well because we are heterosexual men. and you are wrong we shame fat men too.

  5. Let the fatties die . Ground them up and feed them to the Mexican refugees in Tent city

  6. it’s a goddam shame. So much fat and sloth. I don’t feel an ounce of pity for them

  7. Good nutrition. Active living. Most people would have few weight or health concerns.

    1. Yep EE.
      It’s so damn easy.
      Don’t make a habit out of the junk & sweets, and get some exercise. No one has to be an obese slob.
      And speaking of exercise, nice day out. Going for my long Sunday walk. Have a good one.

    2. Damn it! these “trolls” started down voting even for a GOOD advice/comment !!

  8. Everyone should look at themselves in the mirror naked and really analyze their bodies. It’s a good way to keep this s h i t in check.
    With all these soy boys and beta cucks prancing around combined with forced fat acceptance by these land whales, I’m afraid we’re headed to a very very bad place..

  9. MGTOW just looks more and more appealing for the discerning gentleman.
    Maybe it’s age as I’ve reached my mid 30’s but women just aren’t that integral to my life anymore. I prefer to focus on my body and spirit, acquiring wealth, travel and keeping my mind sharp by learning new languages and studying religion/philosophy.
    So, the fatties can continue to get fatter, I could care less at this point. The only way to fight the modern woman (fat, entitled, manly, slutty) is to simply disregard them in your personal lives. If a young, traditional, beautiful, virgin unicorn appears in my life (about a 1% chance) then great, if not, great as well.
    I currently have South East Asia on my mind for the end of the year, I’ll enjoy superior female companionship then, no need to waste time and resources on females in the States.

      1. I’ll take slim, feminine and docile over the crap the West has to offer.
        To each his own.

    1. @DatGuy
      Funny how the point when you earnestly begin to project “disregard” is, counterintuitively, precisely when they want you the most…female intuition eats ‘em up when they get a whiff of your self-worth on the I’ll winds of a soft neg…nice fringe benefits. Stoicism prevails through the BS, it seems.

  10. What is that hog? Pound of makeup, still ugly. Corset, still fat. We should call them tax dollars, because that is what they will be. Hell probably already are

  11. Body positive movement is to hide trannies in plain sight. Make women fat and ugly so its easier to blend in the celeb trannies in plain sight.
    Youre fapping to dudes, really feminine ones

  12. Women need more fat in their bodies. Body fat content is 25% for women at normal size compared to 15% for men. The skinny bitches you lot here like are more prone to mood swings and other hormonal related fuck ups than the fatties. Which is why the fatties in general are also more feminine and submissive.

    1. You missed the point.
      Declaring that anything OTHER than skeletal bulimics is being “shamed” here is ridiculous. Yes a woman should have an ass and tits. No she should not have fat rolls

      1. Yes, I experienced them when I was young, dumb and full of come. Obviously, they swallow your load, which is a nice touch, though not so much to honor your maleness but rather because it’s just more calories. In other words they’ll swallow anything, and when you think about that carefully, you start to feel so much disgust towards fat women that you can no longer maintain an erection in their presence. With age and wisdom comes caution, and you start to wonder, what of they decided to swallow not just the mayonaise but the sausage as well? And there is the end of the story as far as I’m concerned. At this point, I’d no more risk dipping my wanger in the gaping maw of a fat woman than that of a lion or other wild beast.

        1. Fatties swallow. That’s a point.
          In terms of Fatties, one must be judicious. I could turn a blind eye once in a while to 20 lbs, but not 40 lbs.

    2. but mood swings from thin girl are more tolerable than mood swings from a disgusting fatty.

    3. “Women need more fat in their bodies. Body fat content is 25% for women at normal size compared to 15% for men.
      Where else can they hide their shitty entitled attitudes, as it certainly wont be found in the pockets of the “skinny” pants and shorts they try to wear.
      They could be 750 pounds live weight and still cannot hide the uglyass attitudes and self entitlement, that glaringly nakedly (retch) obvious as their triple layered fat rolls.

  13. This stuff starts young.
    Parents coddling their fat kids.
    Bullies sometimes do serve a good purpose.
    Shaming works.

  14. Down here in lousy anna, we have a huge number of pigs. It’s like we are in a race to the bottom with Mississippi.
    STILL these hogs think they are at least a 6. And deserve a high value man. Mostly from this body positive shit, thirsty betas, and attention from black dudes.
    All fat women are delusional and toxic.

      1. I find it disgusting when I see in shape black guys dating fat white women.

        1. and a scrawny white guy with a big fat black girl is just ridiculous lol
          but i don’t think I’ve ever seen one such case in my entire life.

    1. A Polish saying: “Every she-monster will find her amateur”. On a different note, life is a test and these people have failed, nobody should care, weak people are to be avoided, I would rather know everyone’s true colors so that I can make better decisions who to associate with. Similarly, I want to be around people who don’t do drugs because that’s who they are, not because drugs are illegal. Just like when someone isn’t a thief only because he knows he wouldn’t get away with it, and not because he’s a decent human. I want to have as much input about those around me as I can. I want to see who everyone really is, plenty of potential fatties in Poland, but hardship keeps them in line. If someone is who she is because of external circumstances, you’d better stay away. In your circles, make sure to have people who have proven themselves and retained their dignity, composure, and clarity of mind in tempting, adverse circumstances. Human failures aren’t worthy of your time.

  15. /begin rant/
    Suppose you heard someone complaining: “I have a problem with crapping on myself. Yes, I can control my anal sphincter muscle, but it takes so much willpower to do so! When I want to go, I don’t like to wait. So whenever I feel the urge to crap, I do it right then and there in my pants. I don’t like sitting in my own crap, but what is the alternative? Exercising the willpower to wait until I can get to a toilet is painful! People are so judgemental about me crapping on myself, and that just makes me want to crap on myself even more. You can’t appreciate how hard I have it because you are different from me. I don’t stink of crap because I crap on myself, I crap on myself because I stink of crap. And yes, I know people in the past never had this problem whereas now half the population has it. Must be something in the food supply, I’m not to blame… What should I do?” What would you think about such a person? This analogy is why I believe obesity should be considered primarily a mental illness. Adults who reject “table training”, or control of the entry point to the alimentary canal, are as sick in the head as those who reject toilet training, or control of the exit point.
    /end rant/

  16. Those ghastly images triggered me into reaching for my SIG and ending it all, but as I unholstered my gun, I said to myself, “it’ll be all right, you’ll get through this.”
    And so here I am alive and well to share this story.

  17. How the fuck do people get fat? Just eat less calories if your getting fat. Its not that hard.

    1. The programming is: Missed a meal? You will starve and gain weight. Yes, the words weight gain and starving in the same sentence.
      Eat 5-6 small meals a day. This avoids hunger (God forbid) and keeps all the levels in your body just right. The result: Never knowing what true hunger is and consuming more calories because no one understands (least of all fatties) what constitutes a “small” meal or snack.

  18. I really don’t think obesity will ever get normalized. People — men especially — have a gut reaction to get away from it, similar to when we see a rattlesnake but in this case it’s about “primal revulsion,” not primal fear of poisonous reptiles.

    A lot of painstakingly-staged obesity photos saturate the advertising, traditional media and social media landscape these days. It’s just on the surface. There is a sad parade seeking approval, generosity and support from those who are fit or thin. Instead, what they’ll get is a silly little “comfort dance” from PC Society, one intended to keep the peace in a society that no longer condones shaming or proper criticism of the weak. In this scenario, all obese women are left with is hollow, ambiguous feedback from “nice” people that signals “fat acceptance” while sublimating a sneaking suspicion that most Americans are now too afraid to say anything negative for fear of the PC Police. That’s the image I remember whenever I see a good-looking (thin) woman placating her fat, ugly friend.

    When we see the photos (such as above) I imagine the sheer time it takes, the level of make-up, the special lighting, the hair dye, the tattoos, the investment in carefully-coordinated plus-sized clothing, the Minnie Mouse shoes that barely contain the waves of fat on feet and toes, and last but not least all the additional Photoshop work that happens afterward. What those images don’t reveal is the fact that most of these women will have a hard time reaching around to wipe their own asses. They also spend the day eating the equivalent of 4 or 5 meals, and engaging other unhealthy habits. They sweat a lot when forced to move in ways that most of us find ordinary, such as walking up a hill or staircase. They will get sick and die much earlier than average. It’s not much of a life.

    1. Very well said. The fat ledge below the knees is not in any way normal on an average weight person. This is creeping fat and lymph edema which will eventually immobilize the person and result in stasis ulcers, cellulitis and hard to treat infections. The impending, oncoming medical nightmare, due to immobility, is like a medical tsunami.

  19. We could solve this pretty fast by issuing hunting licenses.
    $1000 and you can bag a 300 pounder or larger. limit 1 per license.
    solve that national debt at the same time too. get money. have less fat fucks to spend it on.

  20. Healthy mind in a healthy body, words that echo from the ancient Greece. You can learn a lot from a person just by looking at it. And don´t lose time trying to explain something to those people, for it is impossible. Let them live in a hell of their own creation

  21. Eventually, all addictions correct/cure themselves through overdose. The bad point is that people insist on reversing that desire for the addicts, and there in lies the problem. Quit trying to save overdoses. Problem solved for everyone.

    1. Yes. Let’s stop supplying safe injection sites and needle exchanges. I will agree to this insanity when I can go to a bar, get completely shit faced and someone takes me home and gets my car home.

      1. Society has no duty to save people who are willfully and purposefully self destructing, Except where those people directly threaten tohe health and safety of innocents not connected to that personal destruction, whereby society has a duty to prevent that self destruction from being visited on the rest (meaning endangering others in the course of them taking their own lives ie drinking and driving, driving under the influence, suicide by crashing their cars into others or structures, et al).

        1. If it buys them a suicide by cop, then, oh well. Everybody wins.

        2. Neal.
          The amount of dirty needles scattered over parks and city streets is out of control. The public is put at risk by dirty needles. Giving people safe injection sites to put illegal drugs into their bodies is just mind blowing to me. I say let the whole thing burn down. This “harm reduction” crap is not working and is societal bleeding heart enabling at its finest.

  22. My girl is a size 4 and felt that she was getting a little soft so she fasted for a week and dropped ten pounds.
    She hardly eats much already but she looks even better now.

  23. The fat models aren’t there to make fat girls feel better about themselves. It’s fashion industry exploiting a new market. As more girls and women grow fat, they need special clothes they can fit in. The fashion industry can charge more for tent-sized dresses. It’s about money, not feelings.
    The fat women I know are disconnected from reality. They filter out the things they don’t want to see or know. They hang out with other fat women who reinforce their tunnel vision. You always see them walking around with a big cup of latte, from which they continuously slurp high-fructose corn syrup and chemical additives that make them fat in the first place. You never see them with a bottle of mineral water or carrot spinach juice.

  24. And when they are not fat, they have tats, piercings, and those stupid black dot earrings. Male and female alike.

  25. Body positivity equals Natural selection. If they want to be 500 lbs and weed themselves from the gene pool, let them.

  26. It’s one thing to accept persons with difficult medical problems, but it’s another to indulge and even idealize lazy self-indulgent slobs.
    This is proof that slender, attractive women deserve idealization because they are capable of self-control — a many sided virtue deserving of being praised and rewarded.

  27. OK ladies, take it from a medical professional of 40 years, you enjoy the chub because the only thing that is saving your fat is asses is your age. Keep that weight on and by the time you are 40 you will be in dire need of medical intervention. You have been lied to and I suggest you go to a retirement or nursing home and have a look around. The octogenarians are slim and trim. Some are skin and bones but the ones moving around without assistance will tell you that they have been slim most of their lives.
    Please don’t subject healthcare workers to “log rolling” you over to wash your yeasty large ass. Those stubby legs are going to fill with fluid from lymphedema (look that one up) and your mobility will greatly decrease. You have time, do it now. You are not attractive nor are you bold or beautiful. No amount of make-up or fancy clothes on a professional fashion shoot can cover up the fact that you are just fat, obese and awful. Thank you.

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