Size 16 mannequins make being fat 'normal'

Question 1

            a) True. “normalising” being overweight and making increasing numbers of people feel that obesity is aceptable.”

            b)  False. “using size 16 models in shop windows in an effort to reflect the shape of “real women” in Britain” …. “the average British woman is a size 16.”

            c)  False.“ Debenhams became the first department store to display size 16 mannequins in its 179 stores, and urged rival high street shops to follow its lead.”

            d)  True. “ Jo Swinson called for fashion stores to promote a more diverse range of women, saying it was “as if there’s only one way of being beautiful”.

Question 2

            a) Fashion stores are showing size 16 mannequins in their shop windows and their clothes are larger for their size tan they used to be.

            b) Dame Sally is worried about the fact that people  no longer care about the health problems that being obese might cause.

Question 3

a)     overweight

b)     retailers

c)      risk

            d)  portrayed / to portray

            e)  urged / to urge

Question 4

a)     Being overweight is being normalised by large mannequins in shops.

b)     Dame Sally said that she had long been concerned that being underweight was often portrayed as the ideal  weight, particularly in the fashion industry.

c)      If people were not normalising being overweight, they would be aware of the risks of obesity.