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The New Normal: a Fat America
On August 7, 2007 , Science Daily captioned an article, Fat Is The New Normal. The article led with the statement, American women have gotten fatter as it has become more socially acceptable to carry a few extra pounds, according to a new study. The article explains that as more people carry more weight, our perception of normal changes and we begin to carry more weight, too. They site a previous study which reported that 87 percent of Americans, including 48 percent of obese Americans, believe that their body weight falls in the socially acceptable range.
In 1994, the average woman said she weighed 147 pounds but
wanted to weigh 132 pounds; in 2002, the average woman weighed
153 pounds but wanted the scales to register 135 pounds. That
even the desired weight of women has increased suggests
there is less social pressure to lose weight. Today the average
woman weighs 163. There are no figures available at this time
for the average desired weight of women over the last five years.
There could be a viscous cycle effect starting or already in
progress, with each new belt notch that becomes accepted by the
masses giving the unspoken okay for those leading the gain to
keep gaining, and for fewer to feel the need to resist joining
in.
According to 2001-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, 33.2 percent of American women over age twenty are classified as obese. That’s more than one of every three women. How can this not effect what we regard as normal?
Obesity, once defined as twenty percent above normal weight,
has been redefined as thirty percent overweight. Dress sizes
get larger but the numbers stay the same. If you used to wear
a size 12 and you have gained 15 – 20 pounds, the new 12’s
are likely to still fit; if you used to wear a size 12 and have
not gained weight, you may be delighted to go to the department
store and find that you’re now buying a size 8 or 10. Mannequins
are getting larger, and plus size mannequins are no longer an
oddity. For the first time in the history of their inception,
junior clothes are now available in plus sizing.
Overweight actors and reporters, once a kind of media oxymoron, are now commonplace. In fact, there is a new sit com on TV this year that centers on a family whose members are almost all obese, if not morbidly obese.
Clothing stores carry a variety of sizes, but they stock up on those sizes that are most common for their particular area. When I wore a size 18 I could never buy clothes on clearance as my size was always gone except for in the most disastrous of buyers’ mistakes, and the ugly or poorly cut items. I will never forget not being able to ever order from the Spiegel catalog, because their size large was a 10-12. Even the plus size stores operate this way: if you wear an 18/20 or a 26-28 you are often out of luck shortly after the new lines come in.
The stores now carry plenty of 18’s, and most stores carry up to size 20’s in their regular misses sizing areas. More and more I find that non-specialty clothing stores have plus size departments (more often now called women’s sizes). This all supports the notion of fat moving its way into the norm.
According to a recent study completed by
research firm Mintel, nearly $32 billion was spent on plus size
clothing in 2005. The growth in the plus size clothing market
in the last five years has exceeded 50 percent.
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Anyone who was obese thirty years ago can affirm that plus size clothing used to be solid black, navy, charcoal or brown pants and obnoxious stripes, dots or floral tops. Now you can find almost any style in 20-36, even those that should probably never be worn by anyone over a size 10.
The obese have screamed fashion discrimination
for thirty years. It’s not that the industry has suddenly
decided to try to rectify this situation out of compassion for
those of us who had no choice but to go to work looking like
wallpaper and drapes; it’s simply a matter of meeting the
needs of the new normal and doing so at a plus size profit.
Disclaimer: This article is educational in nature, and is not
intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. If
you have a medical condition, please consult your physician.
Yeast (Candida et al) is a controversial
subject which many health professionals do not recognize as valid.
I am neither a doctor, nor a health care professional and do
not give medical advice. I am continually involved in laboratory
research on yeast, I have 40 years experience as an obese child,
adolescent, and adult, I have been personally successful in losing
more than 186 pounds without Bariatric surgery and maintaining
that weight loss for over nine years. No information contained
on any of my websites, in any of my books or articles, or in
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