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- - - - Out of the moms in the study 140 mothers have been diagnosed with Anorexia nervosa, 170 bulimia nervosa, and 71 mothers having a diagnosis of both.
        
        . The study result was that children that were born with a maternal figure diagnosed with bulimia or Anorexia Nervosa were more likely to have survey results that put them in a “health consious/ vegitarian” category of eating habits where as children who did not have a maternal figure suffer from disordered eating results in a “normal” eating pattern. This is important because all mothers want what is best for their child but whenever the mother has a direct impact on ones image of what health is can lead to generational disordered eating to be passed down.
  - - - It is found that people without education after high school to be at a greater increase for obesity than people with a 4 year college education.
        
        Obesity inequalities were larger for females than males and for whites than blacks, and obesity did not differ by education among black males.
        
        The article also brings up the BMI scale as a method of measuring peoples health. Today we know that the BMI scale isnt accurate for everyone accross the board but the popularization of the BMI was popularized in the 1970’s and 80’s until recently when we have identified the measurement as the problem not the patient associated with it.
  - - - People have written about their parents and sometimes their own struggle with eating disorders in literature throughout history Children are at a higher risk of negative developmental outcomes, including cognitive, social and emotional disturbances (Patel et al. 2002). .
        
        This article exposes that while there is a genetic component to the development of eating disorders among children but it also shows that there is a large environmental impact to the development of one owns eating disorder.
      - 3 eating disorders listed: -Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia and binge eating disorder
- - - - A woman named Linda Bacon, in her work in "Health at Every Size" talks about the disconnect between middle class Americans and the idea that weight is to be measured and if you can't seem to lose weight then its your own fault. It is seen as lazy and like you don't care about yourself if you're fat.
        
        In her article "Teaching the Politics of Obesity: Insights into Neoliberal Embodiment and Contemporary Biopolitics," Julie Guthman reflexively explores the pedagogy of a class concerning the "politics of obesity" at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In the article Guthman explains: "It is now widely believed that obesity is increasing at an inexorable and dangerous rate, and that the associations with chronic illness and mortality are causally clear and incontrovertible. One of the effects of this heightened attention, among other things, is a new freedom among the general public to demonize fatness under the aegis of 'health.'"
  - - - Of the groups interveiwed they found that women of medium to average weight experienced the most amount of bias against fat or obese individuals.
- - - - Then they were asked to look at a group of applications for a job. What the subjects didn't know is that about half of the applications were the same person the only difference being that one application used a picture of the person pre gastrointestinal surgery and post gastric bypass surgury.
        
        Self-report measures of prejudice act as surrogates for discrimination, but there has been no empirical support for the validity of explicit measures of anti-fat prejudice.
  - - - It is up to an individual to decide if they are fat or not. This can be displayed in conversations with family and friends saying things like "I look like a wale in these pants" or "Ugh I feel so fat today"
        
        Where fat focus can become dangerous is because there has been a cultural change of the meaning of fat. Some people identify fatness as a physical depiction but in the past few decades it has turned into a feeling. Someone can now say "I feel fat" where that is a self prescribed feeling
- - - - The article also goes a great job of highlighting the importance of mealtimes within a family unit and how that can help lead to healthy food and eating habits, more so, than kids who grow up watching tv while eating meals.
  - - - The study took place at Michigan State University and examines and compare's two studies to find the mean of what a common adult eating style looks like.
        
        The article found that on average women as they get older tend to eat smaller and smaller portions as their appetite dwindles as they age.