Anti-Fat Attitudes

Introduction
Our society has a very negative view of overweight and obesity. They tell us that being fat is an extremely unattractive and undesirable way to be and is a state to be avoided at all cost. This hostility towards fatness has been compared to other common social prejudices, and the striking conclusion drawn is that anti-fat attitudes are currently at the stage that racism was some fifty years ago; namely, that anti-fat attitudes are overt, expressible and widely held (Crandall, 1994).…