ABSTRACT
Observing fatness and obesity in a culture where it is neither frowned upon nor considered conducive to psychological unrest (Cassidy, 1991:191) and a passport to early death (Bray, 1987), might allow us to run free of the western world yardstick (Sobal, 1991) and stereotypes, and have a fresh outlook on their psychological, social and biological consequences. Such observation might permit different views to be formed as to the psychological, social and biological correlations involved.
