Decreasing Stigma Towards Overweight In The U.S.

According to a survey by the NDP group (a marketing firm), fewer people in the U.S. are finding overweight people less attractive. Over a 20 year period, the percentage of folks who find fat people less attractive has dropped from 55% to 24%. One could ascribe this to "resignation" or "acceptance" of the fact that so many folks are overweight these days, I suppose.

Or you could look at the fact that 20 years ago 46% of the population was considered obese and today 65% are obese. For the sake of argument, let's say that it's those nasty, mean old non-obese people that for the most part answered the survey who found overweight people less attractive, so let's do a little math.

 
20 Years Ago
Today

Non-Obese Population
54%
35%
Population Finding Overweight Unattractive
55%
24%
 

Now I don't know about you, but to me for the most part that just reflects the fact that as more of our population has become overweight, those same people are not finding overweight people unattractive. Makes sense to me. Kind of hard to be fat and then say you think fat is unattractive.

If you follow my very non-scientific numbers, you'll note that while 20 years ago there was a virtual one to one correlation between the numbers, today it seems like 11% of non-obese people do not find overweight folks unattractive. Personally I ascribe that to the current "I'm ok, you're ok" school of thought (brainwashing) that's running rampant in the U.S.

Source: Yahoo! News

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Posted by Vic on January 12, 2006 09:00 AM