Correlation between weight and earning

[Hello_Kitty]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050620010100.htm


Nothing you didn't already know but here's an article about it. I find it a little unsettling that this one is accompanied by all sorts of shilling for diet plans and treatments.

[Heddi]

1. Delete

I posted in the wrong thread. Let me go paste in the t-shirt thread and I'll be baaak

[Heddi]

2. Well DUHHHHH

Interesting, this:

Through sibling comparisons, Conley and Glauber found that a 1 percent increase in a woman's body mass results in a .6 percentage point decrease in her family income and a .4 percentage point decrease in her occupational prestige as measured 13 to 15 years later. There were no such associations found for the men in the sample.

Interesting.

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[Hello_Kitty]

3. Ads

Pretty insidious, the way that page is set up. Dire warning about how weight will endanger your financial security. But look, here's some "solutions" for you, for a small price of course.

[Heddi]

4. Oh completely

I was watching TV one day after school and it was just on the channel that Dr Phil comes on, and he was doing a show about overweight teenagers, and how awful it was for them being morbidly obese. He was talking straight to them (I generally loathe Dr. Phil, but he can be okay sometimes), and was getting them in this program where they were being followed by a nutritionist, a personal trainer, etc.

Well, here comes the first commercial and it's for some diet pill (the one with the dancing people). Next commercial break is an ad for Jenny Craig and a pitch for the South Beach Diet book. NExt commercial break is Trimspa Baby, Yeah! and Leptoprin.

So what message is being sent to any kids/adults watching this show?

Dr Phil is up there, telling the kids how important self esteem is, how important healthy eating and exercise is, how they need to love who they are regardless of how they look--some really good platitudes that I think these kids probably had never been told (really TOLD) before.

That's a good message. That's a message alot of people need to hear and want to hear. As loathsome I think he is, alot of people actually LIKE Dr Phil and takes what he says to heart.

But then, every 10 minutes, there's ads for LOOK YOUR BEST IN YOUR BIKINI. GET FLAT SUMMER ABS WITH BOWFLEX. Kirstie Alley looking into the Camera and saying "Hey you're fat too!" (which I think is the WORST ad for the overweight. Completely demeaning).

So which message do we buy? The one that losing significant amounts of weight may not always be successful in the shortterm, but is rather to be looked at as a long-term lifetime goal of healthy living? Or Physician's Weight Loss' claim that you too can lose up to 10lbs a week...I mean, look at the woman in the commercial. Last year she weighed over 400 lbs..now she's a size 0

mixed messages completely and purposefully.

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[jmm]

6. You know society is messed up when

the solution to to change bodies instead of prejudices