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"I don't art beat myself up if I have a piece of cake," said Frater, a 34-year-old New Yorker and author of "Fat Chicks Rule." The survey's findings aren't that surprising, as attitudes art about weight art constantly shift, said John Cawley, associate professor at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology. While heavy women were idealized at times _ think "Rubenesque," a term born of 17th century painter Peter Paul Rubens' full-figured women _ corseted women with tiny waists were preferred in other eras. "I don't think we're going to go back to worshipping obese women, but it's interesting to see how attitudes change as more people become overweight," Cawley said. Others argue that people are merely becoming more politically correct and that bias against fat people is actually growing sharper. "These studies don't pick up on implicit, unconscious bias," said Kelly Brownell, head of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. "It's like if you asked people around the country if they had racial bias.
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