Originally Posted by
Distracted1
Perhaps formerly obese individuals could be interviewed to attempt determine how big a factor their desire to avoid fat shaming played in their motivation to lose weight?
You can go online and find out that some people blame fat shaming for contributing to their obesity (and low self-esteem), and others claim that it made them slim down.
As in the post above, I don't really see the point of this since the obese, apart from a very small minority of feeders 'n' eaters and sumo wrestlers in Japan), aren't trying to become obese. When you shame people, it's usually for behaviors that they themselves do deliberately.
In the case of involuntary obesity, you might as well blame people for growing old and bald.
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Maybe factors that are found to be prevalent in the environment of obese individuals could be isolated, then other individuals who experienced similar environments yet did not become obese could be examined to try to determine if their avoidance of obesity was driven by fat shaming, and if so to what extent?
Many such factors have been found:
Q&A with FENS 2019 plenary speaker, Professor Arne Astrup (Feb. 8, 2019)
Poverty and
lack of education, however, are probably the two most important factors when you look beyond biology. But a scientific approach to obesity probably wouldn't (and shouldn't!) pay too much attention to people who are only interested in justifying their attitude. They
enjoy fat shaming and would like to see science justify this attitude.
It has nothing to do with scientific curiosity or a desire to help anybody.