UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 29, 1997
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Hating fat American way
Anti-fat attitude based on will power
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
The slew of advertisements for fitness equipment, successful diets and all manner of pills and potions promising dramatic weight loss can now be explained, a KU researcher said. It's the American way.
Traditional American beliefs that anyone can become wealthy or educated through hard work and determination and that people get what they deserve lead Americans to stronger anti-fat attitudes than people in most other countries, said Chris Crandall, assistant professor of psychology.
Americans tend to believe that carrying a few extra pounds is caused by a lack of individual will power.
"Anti-fat prejudice in this country is mostly unintended," Crandall said. "It's almost an accident of our individualism."
Crandall and co-researcher Rebecca Martinez of the University of Florida published their findings in the November issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in
an article called "Culture, Ideology and Anti-fat Attitudes."
Crandall's research showed that the more strongly people believe in individualism, the more likely they are to be prejudiced against people they suspect are responsible for what happens to them. Anti-fat attitudes are associated with conservative views about women, marriage, politics, affirmative action and capital punishment.
"Since conservatives tend to hold an individual is responsible for all of the outcomes in his or her life, many Americans consider obesity to be a violation of the idea of self-control and self-denial," he said.
Crandall's research compared the attitudes of Americans with those of Mexicans. Mexicans reported more positive attitudes toward overweight people, less concern about their own weight and less strongly held beliefs that fat is entirely a function of self-control.
Heather Goldstein Frost, a psychologist at KU Counseling and Psychological Services, said that overweight people often viewed the issue as a matter of will power and discipline.
discipline. "They've internalized attitudes in the culture about fat being bad," she said. "They see themselves as bad
"Anti-fat prejudice in this country is mostly unintended."
Chris Crandall
assistant professor of psychology
people. They feel a sense of shame oftentimes."
A third of all Americans between the ages of 24 and 74 are overweight, according to the latest figures from the National Center for Health Statistics, which fuels a nearly $2 billion diet and fitness industry.
Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that obesity was determined by a number of factors, including genetics, social and economic status and physical abnormalities. But people classified as overweight can still lead a healthy lifestyle and be fit, he said.
Rock gave the example of football players who weigh far more than is normal for their height because most of their weight is in muscle mass.
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