On 01/10/2013 5:00 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> "Fat Albert" is a counterexample.  OK, it was a cartoon, but still.
>

This may be a cultural thing. In the UK about that time, fat or over 
weight was seen to be a sign of greed, gluttany or self/over indulgence. 
When I reached 210 lb at 5' 10" I was shocked into going on a crash diet.

> That still doesn't strike me as "data" though.

It is not, be a climate change denier, if you will. :-P

> Hollywood makes intentional choices (most of the time) for reasons.  That they
didn't
> show any overweight people (or rarely did) just means that they made that
> choice, not that overweight people didn't exist.

The choice being that it was not acceptable to show fat (or unattractive 
people) as being normal.
It is often said that we are about 30 to 50 years behind the states. 
That gap is closing rapidly.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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