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Fat Studies, that's what it comes

The keepers of this blog has not been able to participate ahilui 'important Conference "PCA / ACA Fat Studies", an international meeting held in the United States wanted to take stock of the thinking and research on the dimensionality, the freedom of shape, size acceptance. We must therefore settle for a summary of what has been said published by the always excellent Big Fat Blog . Especially interesting to see where we are, and how far from us here in Italy, we still have to do.

Heather Brown, Northern Illinois University, has attempted to compare the results academics from the '60s to today among students of different dimensionality . It has come to reveal how teachers influence these results: they end up reward the students are obese or slim sport even before assessing their academic performance. These

Schaefer, of Columbia University Law School, spoke of a terrible and urgent issue, that of ' removal of children from their parents because of obesity , why parents are considered unfit to raise their children. Cases that are repeated in the States and that are justified by the fact that in court if the child is obese is the fault of the parents. Perception prevails that the future risk of obesity as an essential on the centrality of the family or the same knowledge of the reasons behind obesity. No study instead on what happens to their children taken away from family. Maybe slim.

Of great interest is the report of the Finnish researcher Hannele Harjunen, University of Jyväskylä, which focused on "creating a disadvantaged minority" based on the cultivation of a "symbolic illness", focusing on standardization, stigma and Clinical aspects of obesity. This is conceived from Hannele as "a phenomenon and an experience of many facets, gender, a social impact." Words that come from his academic thesis on 'Obesity as a metaphor , where obesity is used as a metaphor to raise individual concerns and macro-. "and the" body shape is increasingly used as a dividing line between normality and abnormality between them and us ".

The speakers also spoke Ayelet Kalter, Israeli dietician who runs a site made controversial by the fact that, as dietitian, has fully embraced the principles of size acceptance . He talked about how even the most skeptical after being subjected to end its programs to understand the importance of acceptance of self (and other ).

to Chud, the boys put on the cross Cicciotti from questionable studies and pitiless analysis may like to hand the involvement of Kate Mason, University of California at Berkeley, who has investigated the relationship men with their bodies , discovering how the majority of fatties in the case of a report "masculine" is not seen as masculine as that used by bodybuilders ( "too much attention to the body"). But if men are afraid not to appear masculine, even before they themselves socially, benefiting from the doubts and problems much more numerous than for their bodies tend to feed the women. A vaguely disturbing reality: "Men often have built the relationship with their body rejecting the idea of \u200b\u200bwomen concerned about fat and unhappy with their body." E 'disturbing, obviously, the fact that even obese man could fall so easily into the most vulgar stereotype against women .