I would welcome the results of that research if the sample size were larger.
95 women? The racial make-up for the group is also of interest to me. How many participants were women of color? And what is the definition of "fat thighs"? Women whose thighs rub together? Women who are slightly overweight? Obese?
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"The idea was to get beneath the bravado," says Solomon, health editor at Essence magazine. "Culturally it's not acceptable to sit around and talk about how we don't like our body. Saying 'I'm fat' is associated with white women." (Even if weight gain is a nagging, demoralizing worry.)
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I hope the book addresses the rising phenomenon of eating disorders. Some of us are so quick to dismiss it as a "White girl thing."
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