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Re:Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors fo... by Jensson on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:46PM (#32525269)
30 years ago you would have gotten shamed if you gained a few pounds, that early signal makes people think about eating habits earlier and makes many people never go into unhealthy weight in the first place.

So even though shame might not work to get fat people to lose weight, it could still work to keep people from ever getting fat. Getting shamed for a few pounds means that you can fix the source of shame by dieting for a few weeks, very doable for average people.

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Re:Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors fo... by PuppyTailWags on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:18PM (#32526658)
Where is the evidence that shame has a causational relationship with people getting fat? You're still only pointing to correlation and saying that because shaming was more common in the past, shaming is effective now. This implies that healthy weight people respond to shame more strongly than fat people or something, but that's just not true in my experience.
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