Why normalizing obesity perpetuates a culture and future generations of unhealthy people. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1205112/My-visit-Fat-Central-mission-whos-really-blame-obesity-crisis.html A takeaway from this 2011 article: One of the many problems here is that people don't see themselves as obese,' she explains. Their perception of the norm is confirmed by those around them and if all your siblings are overweight and your parents and your grandparents, then that's the norm. We have got to the point in some regions where when you add together the number of fat and obese people, they form the majority.' In other words, being a normal size is abnormal around here. If you want to fit in (as most of us do, wherever we live) then pile on the flab. And so the problem gets steadily worse, generation after generation. There's a historical factor, too, that I hadn't taken in. Fat acceptance today Obese children in Mexico, 2015