Tue, Mar-30-04, 06:40
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3 Days at a Time
Posts: 1,036
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Plan: OWL
Stats: 150/150/150
BF:
Progress: 16%
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Originally Posted by liz175
Bree,
I never thought about the fact that using the same word for food and people helps to villify the food, but I think you are absolutely right about this. One of the reasons it was probably so easy to convince Americans that fat in food will lead to them being fat is because of the use of the same word for two very different phenomena.
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I'm really interested in finding out how the slang term 'fat' for overweight people evolved.
There's also the fact that I had to go look up the word 'fett' in German, because in 9 months living there not one person said it. I'd heard people described as overweight, so I knew that word. But I'd never heard someone talk about the fat content in their food.
Are other cultures nearly as obsessed as we are? |