Online news reports about obesity tend to be accompanied by unflattering or even negative images of obese people, research published online early this month in the Journal of Health Communication finds. And those portrayals may contribute in a big way to societal and personal bias against the overweight.
Researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity examined photos from five major on-line news sites, grading each for the way it depicted obese people. Did it show them engaged in healthful activities, or eating junk food? Was the obese person shown from the front, or from the side or back? Was part of the person?s body shown unclothed, as in a big belly hanging out? Was the obese person pictured as an expert, a lawyer, a doctor? Or just a some poor fat schlub? And did the person in the picture have his head excised from the image?
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