Body Weight In The United States

Body weight is a hot topic in today’s society. Recent trends involving body weight include the protest against body shaming accompanied by the encouragement of the acceptance of bodies of all shapes and sizes. That being said, there is some cultural inconsistency that exists in the United States because although society ideally wants to accept people of all sizes and view them without judgement, many people allow a bias to cloud their views of people whose body weight is deviant from the norm. These altered perceptions particularly occur with overweight Americans, with people often specifically labeling them as being overweight. As a result, I propose the following question of correlation: Does labeling certain individuals as overweight correlate