Section 2 > Exercise 4 > Cultural attitudes
Study the following series of images and answer the discussion questions.
What do these photographs say about our attitudes towards obesity? Where do these attitudes come from? You may find it helpful to proceed to the following activities before answering.
Examine the following photograph and paintings. What factors might influence a change in cultural aesthetics in different historical periods?
  
Discussion Questions.
1. Refer to the question at the top of the page: What is our culture's attitude towards obesity and where does it come from?
2. Look at the prevalence maps that show the change in obesity over the last decades. List factors that contribute to the obesity epidemic.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/
Did your list include cultural factors?
3.Thinking about your experience of and attitudes towards towards obesity, what societal and cultural barriers to the treatment of obesity can you identify? Write a brief paragraph describing one of these barriers in as mcuh detail as you can and determine whether its solution rests with the individual, the medical community, public health system, or the government.
Clinical Correlate #6: Obesity
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