17,500 for fat vests

Strokingdiction

Skinny students will be wearing fat vests so they can "walk a mile" in their overweight peers' shoes. Maybe I'm a cynic but I find this a waste of tax dollars and that it won't exactly have the effect they are hoping for.

http://newscenter.nmsu.edu/articles/view/10184/nmsu-professor-receives-usda-grant-to-research-weight-prejudice-on-campus

_John_

I have a problem with how those "fat suits" or vests distribute weight. Gaining weight doesn't happen overnight, and therefore there is always muscular adaptation in the individual gaining weight.

I know myself for example there is about a 30 pound range where I am every bit as capable and athletic at any weight in the range.



However, say I lose the 20 pound and you throw a suit on me, and it makes me awkward in a hurry.

I don't see these in anyway approximating "real life" weight issues.

MKEgal

If they want to research weight prejudice, how about talking with fat people?

Sinistrous

Hmm, maybe they should just spend that money in teaching them to stay healthy instead...