According to a new study done by Dr. Davide Dragone and Dr.Luca Savorelli, from the University of Bologna, Italy, without size zero models acting as an incentive, Westerners are going to continue to eat their weight in food and obesity levels will rise!
According to www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1379230/Forget-chubby-slim-Says-new-controversial-report-supporting-size-zero.html">DailyMail, the two doctors wrote that:
"If being overweight is the average condition and the ideal body weight is thin, increasing the ideal body weight may increase welfare by reducing social pressure. By contrast, health is on average reduced, since people depart even further from their healthy weight. Given that in the US and in Europe people are on average overweight, we conclude that these policies, even when are welfare improving, may foster the obesity epidemic."
So basically, Westerners need to see those gals and guys on TV and in magazines and advertisements with size nothing waists so that we don't get confused about "what acceptable weight is" and therefore become even more gluttonous than we already are.
Yet how the doctors came to this conclusion is kind of interesting. "In one of their studies participants ate twice as many cookies after they were shown images of someone who was overweight, even if they had goals to maintain a healthy weight."