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Old 18th October 2019, 04:56 AM   #135
dann
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Originally Posted by Distracted1 View Post
Has there been some kind of control that attempts to answer the question of how many people that are not obese would be if they were not averse to being fat shamed?

How do you propose to do that? Divide children into three groups, fat-shame one, fat-praise the other, and somehow isolate the third from ever hearing about demeaning attitudes to obesity?!


ETA: I can see that Ziggurat was already there.
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