Are there fat people in france

Socio-economic disparities exist in children as wll as adults. Boys and girls in the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups are over twice as likely to be obese as children who are better off. Further Reading. Return to the main page www. Past and projected overweight rates Underlying data and charts for all the graphics below are also available in Excel 2. Past and projected rates of child obesity and overweight, age , in France 4.

Odds ratios of child obesity by parents' obesity status in France 5. United States. United Kingdom. There are many equally bizarre episodes in her life story. Returning to the teaching job, this is how it ended: discrimination on grounds of physical appearance is illegal in France, a law that seems not to have filtered through to employers. But I was finding it difficult and complicated to deal with.

It was when I started looking for a job. Becoming obese can happen to anyone and it began happening to Gabrielle at Her mother decided her daughter needed to take emergency steps after Gabrielle came home from a shopping trip with a new pair of trousers in size 14, instead of her usual And I put on a lot of weight: 30kg in three months.

The weight piled on. All sorts of nonsense. She now weighed kg. Every day. I thought of myself as deformed. University meant freedom.

What happened after she graduated? Gabrielle grows smaller in her banquette. There was no logical reason for it. People were giving me admin or underpaid jobs.

I was doing factory work. Gabrielle knew there was something specifically French about her experience. If someone commented on how I looked it was only to give a compliment. Was that a choice? Is it an illness? The visit to the doctor when Gabrielle was 17 is mirrored by its opposite, exactly 20 years later, the second time in her life when her world was turned upside down: but this time from terrible to a waking dream. I was even worried I was going to be homeless.

I put on 30kg.