I'm O.K. Fat, You're O.K. Fat

A survey finds America's attitudes toward overweight people are shifting from rejection toward acceptance. Over a 20-year period, the percentage of Americans who said they find overweight people less attractive steadily dropped from 55 percent to 24 percent, the market research firm NPD Group found.

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I suppose it beats our culture's bulimia-inducing infatuation with thinness, but I'm not impressed with a more accepting attitude toward fat people that, in reality, might just be away of accepting laziness and poor diets.

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