Article 26 Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty In a rite of passage‚ some Nigerian girls spend months gaining weight and learning customs in a special room. “To be called a ‘slim princess’ is an abuse‚” says a defender of the practice. By Ann M. Simmons TIMES STAFF WRITER AKPABUYO‚ Nigeria—Margaret Bassey Ene currently has one mission in life: gaining weight. The Nigerian teenager has spent every day since early June in a “fattening room” specially set aside in her father’s mudand-thatch house
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industry‚ on the television‚ and in movies‚ society surrounds women with a visual perception that the ideal woman is beautiful because of how thin they are. The media promote thin as sexy. People‚ especially women‚ strive to be sexy. This promotion of the concept of what women should be has led to a dissatisfaction of their bodies. The ideal to be sexy has created a disillusion of what women should look like. With such a need to be super skinny in order to achieve this sexiness‚ women’s dissatisfaction
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article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” Mary Ray Worley‚ also a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)‚ talks about being accepted in America as a fat person; she tells us her personal experiences at the NAAFA Convention‚ her points of view of being a fat person in American‚ and even gives us information from doctors and researchers about weight loss. Worley talks about how America sees fat people and how they are just totally against being fat; she even
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“Fat Tax” Not a Panacea “Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360‚000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic level. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.”- Tom Harkin. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduce life expectancy and/or increased health problems (Wikipedia). To cut that number
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Fat Tax Notes Important Note The importance of a balanced diet cannot be overstated. A balanced diet provides natural disease prevention‚ weight control and proper sleep without the use of sleeping pills. A balanced diet is also important because it enables you to meet your daily nutritional needs and enjoy a higher overall quality of life. Points For * People may stop buying the food if the tax is very high. Since healthier food is cheaper they will start to buy that instead to save more
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Response to Anthropological Editions Essay #5 "Where Fat is a Mark of Beauty" Significant Concept: Simmon’s article illustrates a standard of physical beauty that is different than one might find common in United States or other Western societies. In the particular Nigerian tribe that the author details‚ a young girl named Margaret spends her days in a so-called "fattening room" where she eats to excess and purposefully avoids all but the slightest amount of exercise so as to gain weight - weight
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and Sparta‚ I believe as a young woman living in Sparta would have been better for me. As a woman in Sparta‚ I would have been taught to be physically fit‚ so I could have children and defend Sparta. I enjoy sports‚ so this would be fun. Although women wore no jewelry or makeup‚ it was okay for them to be strong and protect their home. Also in Sparta‚ I could speak freely and own my house. I also had the right to choose my husband. If my husband went to battle for too long‚ I could get a new one
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13 September 2012 Fat Is A Feminist Issue Overeating & Obesity Obesity and overeating is a topic that is ongoing within the United States‚ and in many lives of woman today. Fifty percent of woman that live in this country alone are estimated to be overweight. Individuals of our society are always looking for new diets‚ dietary plans‚ supplements‚ and or advice. Every woman would love to be considered physically fit‚ and beautiful in the eyes of others‚ but this within itself is a challenge. Everyone
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Chelsea Kostoff ENG 101: Ms. Bell Assignment #2‚ Draft #1 September 12‚ 2011 Being Fat is OK Being fat is OK‚ written by Paul Campos is a great opinion piece stating that the federal government and BMI charts group people as “overweight” when really they aren’t. Campos addresses that even if you are healthy and exercise‚ you can still be obese or over weight because of your height and weight. He believes that there are three lies behind it all and society doesn’t know the answer to most
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risks associated with overweight and obesity. Obesity Reviews‚ 8(supp 1)‚ 13-17. Retrieved July 30‚ 2008‚ from Academic Search Premier database. Pettinger‚ T. (2007). Fat tax: why we should tax unhealthy foods. Retrieved July 12‚ 2008 from http://www.economicshelp.org/2007/07/fat-tax-why-we-should-tax-unhealthy.html Pool‚ R. (2001). Fat: fighting the obesity epidemic. New York: Oxford. Runge‚ C. (2007‚ November). Economic consequences of the obese. Diabetes‚ 56(11)‚ 2668-2672. Retrieved July 11‚ 2008
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