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http://www.naafaonline.com/dev2/


 * 1) Founded in 1969, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (**NAAFA**) is a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to ending size discrimination in all of its forms. **NAAFA's** goal is to help build a society in which people of every size are accepted with dignity and equality in all aspects of life. **NAAFA** will pursue this goal through **advocacy**, **public education**, and **support**.
 * 2) Weight discrimination was reported by **7%** of US adults in 1995-96, and almost doubled to **12%** by 2006.
 * 3) NAAFA’s message of size acceptance and self-acceptance is often overshadowed by a $49 billion-a-year diet industry that has a vested economic interest in perpetuating discrimination against fat people.
 * 4) This discrimination occurs despite evidence that 95 to 98 percent of diets fail over five years and that 65 million Americans are labeled “obese.”
 * 5) Our thin-obsessed society firmly believes that fat people are at fault for their size and it is politically correct to stigmatize and ridicule them. Fat discrimination is one of the last publicly accepted discriminatory practices.