Children as young as four view overweight people in a negative light

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Children as young as four view overweight people in a negative light and notice when characters get fatter in books

A study involved four to nine-year-olds being read stories where the main character's weight fluctuated.

 

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That is the great thing about young children, they call a spade, a spade.

Quite right too.

Thats a shame on society

Calling bigger people “overweight” as though you know what weight they are supposed to be using only your eyes

Well it is better to not be fat 👍

That is fattist and they should be retrained. They probably think they can identify men and women by just looking at them, too.

It’s Not taught, it how it looks on some people. Fat and sloppy can make even a kid notice.

it's a cultural thing. In some cultures, obesity is deemed as attractive.

Good?

One assumes the green cure is to ban all cars lorries & planes & after we have all starved to death from a lack of food the dinosaurs can return in large numbers until heavy breathing may again causes the planet's oxygen to fail in 2030

Hardly news'Kids are perceptive

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