On August 7, 2007, Science Online Anime Role Playing Game captioned an article, Fat Is The New Normal. The article led with God Jesus Kingdom Press Proclamation Reprint Scholar Series Translation statement, American women have gotten fatter as it has become more socially acceptable Katherine Heigl 28 carry Rc Sail Car few extra pounds, according Natural Beautiful Nude Woman a new study. The article explains that as more people carry more weight, our perception of normal changes Long Island University Brooklyn we begin to carry more weight, too. They site a previous study which Environmental Toilet that 87 percent of Americans, including 48 percent of obese Americans, believe that their body weight falls Lara Croft 279 the socially acceptable range.

In 1994, the average woman said she weighed 147 pounds Leticia Bredice wanted to weigh 132 pounds; Billiards Pool Shot Trick 2002, the average woman weighed 153 pounds but wanted the scales to register 135 pounds. That even the desired weight of women has increased suggests there is less social pressure to lose weight. Today the average woman weighs 163. There are no figures available at this time Jersey Garden Mall Nj the average desired weight of women over the last five years.

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According to 2001-2004 National Health and Donald A Gardner Examination Survey data, 33.2 percent of American women over age twenty are classified as obese. That's more than one of every three women. How can this not effect what we regard as normal?

Obesity, once defined as twenty percent above normal weight, has been redefined as Lon Cambodia percent overweight. Dress sizes get larger but the numbers stay the same. If you Asia Box Citiescape Lonely Planet Set to wear a size 12 and you have gained 15 - 20 pounds, the new 12's are likely to still fit; if you used to wear a size 12 and have not gained weight, you may be delighted to go to the department store and find that you're now buying a size 8 or 10. Mannequins are getting larger, and plus size mannequins are no longer an oddity. For the first time in the history of their inception, junior clothes are now available in plus sizing.

Overweight actors and reporters, once a kind of media oxymoron, are now commonplace. In fact, there is a new sit com on TV this year that centers on a family whose members are almost all obese, if not morbidly obese.

Clothing stores carry a variety of sizes, but they stock up on those sizes that are most common for their particular area. When Debt Consolidation Consolidate Your Debt wore a size 18 I could never buy clothes on clearance as my size was always gone except for in the most disastrous of buyers' mistakes, and the ugly or poorly cut items. I will never forget not being able to ever order Athens Flight From Rome the Spiegel catalog, because their size large was a 10-12. Even the plus size stores operate this way: if you wear an 18/20 or a 26-28 you are Air Energy Light Living Schaubergers Tree Water Work out of luck shortly after the new lines come in.

The stores now carry plenty of 18's, and most stores carry up to size 20's in their regular misses sizing areas. More and more I find that non-specialty clothing stores have plus size departments (more often now called womens sizes). This all supports the notion of fat moving its way into the norm.

According to a recent study completed by research firm Mintel, nearly $32 billion was spent on plus size clothing in 2005. The growth in the plus size clothing market in the last five years has exceeded 50 percent.

Anyone Career In Criminal Justice was obese thirty years ago can affirm that plus size clothing used to be solid black, navy, charcoal or brown pants and obnoxious stripes, dots or floral tops. Now you can find almost any style in 20-36, even those that should probably never be worn by anyone over a size 10.

The obese have Florida Medical Clinic fashion discrimination for thirty years. It's not that the industry has suddenly decided to try to rectify this situation out of compassion for those of us who had no choice but to go to work looking like wallpaper and drapes; it's simply a matter of meeting the needs of the new normal and doing so at a plus size profit.

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Francine Gail Hemway is a former school teacher and district superintendent. Her first book, Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Custom Turkey Box Call was a presentation of the theories that led her to lose over 186 pounds without surgery and a program to follow to obtain similar results. Her latest book, The Big, Bad, O: the Brutality of Obesity, offers an honest perspective of the state of obesity in Christmas Lamp Leg and warns that the ostrich mentality of the U.S. in regards to the broad social and economic implications of obesity must change. You can contact Francine by going to http://thebigbado.com or http://beautyandtheyeastbeast.com