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Post by Guest Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:13 am

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/the-perils-of-fat-talk.html

Conversational shaming of the body has become practically a ritual of womanhood (though men also engage in it). ...

we found that more than 90 percent of college women reported engaging in fat talk — despite the fact that only 9 percent were actually overweight. ....

Contrary to the stereotype of fat talk as a young woman’s practice, we found that fat talk was common across all ages and all body sizes.

Most important, fat talk is not a harmless social-bonding ritual. ....

fat talk was linked with body shame, body dissatisfaction and eating-disordered behavior. Fat talk does not motivate women to make healthier choices or take care of their bodies; in fact, the feelings of shame it brings about tend to encourage the opposite.

Fat talk is also contagious. ....

Then it was our subjects’ turn. In the control condition, when neither of our confederates engaged in fat talk, none of our subjects fat talked. But when our confederates engaged in fat talk, almost a third of the subjects joined in. These subjects also reported higher levels of body dissatisfaction and shame at the end of the study than did their counterparts in the control condition.

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