Fatness

For all the work we've done as a society towards recognizing that fatness isn't a moral failing, in a display of tremendous, collective dissonance, we still view thinness as a moral good.

On the much more serious side, we have changed how we think about or talk about fatness, and rightly so.

Their lives don't orbit around their fatness.

They look in the mirror at their 85 pound selves and just see FATNESS.

It is really his time of “fatness” — the fat years.

BMI will illustrate the best estimate of your total body fatness, while waist measurement gives an estimate of visceral fat and risk of obesity-related disease.

Decades of breeding meat animals for fatness is being reversed by consumer demand for meat with less fat.

For an introduction to the culture of the Azawagh Arabs, see Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire — Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality among a Saharan People.

Some attribute the Venus figurines to the tendency to emphasize fertility while others feel they represent "fatness" in the people of the time.

The preface reads: In 1816, I was consulted by a young woman laboring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case percussion and the application of the hand were of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness.