Obesity has become the new normal but it’s still a health risk

Exercise is good for you, no matter what your weight. Pressmaster/ShutterstockNike’s London store recently introduced a plus-sized mannequin to display its active clothing range which goes up to a size 32. The mannequin triggered a cascade of responses ranging from outrage to celebration. One side argues that the mannequin normalises obesity and leads obese people to feel that they are healthy when in fact they are not. The other side argues the representations are inclusive, combat fat stigma and encourage fat women to exercise. Both arguments have some merit. The representations of bodies we see around us — including shop mannequins – affect the way we calibrate our sense of what is normal and acceptable. And obesity is indeed associated with a greater risk of heart

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