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Another uncomfortable truth for overwhelmingly overweight Americans: fat-shaming seems to work.

Anecdotally, the girls I know whose parents/family criticized them when they started to get fat never became truly fat and the ones whose parents were completely laissez-faire about it are now whales.

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What sort of incidence of eating disorders did you witness in the group either group?

75% of Americans are overweight. When do we consider that an eating disorder?

People worried about the few people who get anorexia from this are like people who worry lifting will just accidentally make you bulky

Extremely unhealthy binge-eating of unhealthy foods in the obese girls paired with bouts of bulimia that never worked.

Mostly plant-based/vegan diets and yoga/other forms of exercise in the thin ones.

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