01:920:240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Body Mass Index, Underweight, Overeating
18 Mar 2016
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Hard to be thin in current environment. Growing rates of obesity: is arbitrary not a direct measure of health/weight, underweight have highest mortality rate. Overweight, but not obese, is no less healthy than people of normal weight (and sometimes better) Fit people of all weights are healthy: contradiction with how heavy women really are and what the cultural norms say they should be. Stigma of fatness: conflict with cultural norms of thinness, chronic unhappiness with body, fat shaming. What is abnormal eating: cultural images promote extreme thinness, anorexia is an unnatural eating disorder. Obsession with dieting: rarely works because it"s fighting human nature. After significant eight loss, bodies change and want to regain. Is obesity really abnormal? the lost weight: overeating is not abnormal from an evolutionary perspective, thinness is less normal from an evolutionary stance, yet it is still the cultural standard to which many aspire. We unconsciously associate height with power and status: more income.
