Washington Post commentary on the fat tax
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The Washington Post did a writeup and poll on the availability of plus size clothing – and supports the idea that making us larger people run around naked will in no way incentivize weight loss. Says the article:
“First, a study in the May issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that, among 81 North Philadelphia women (all but two of them black or Hispanic) of various body shapes and sizes, those who were overweight tended to underestimate their own weight. And when asked to choose an ideal body shape from a set of eight images representing underweight, normal, overweight and obese bodies, many of those women selected the overweight ones as looking best.”
Most poll respondents also came out against the “fat tax.”