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From: LongJohn on 20 Jan 2006 02:01
Captain BlubberSlap wrote:
> Fat people are not big boned. They're fat. By: Aaron Zundel
>
> Over the break I was fortunate enough to meet an Austrian couple who
> had come to Utah for the holidays. I ran into them while we were all
> standing in line for a movie and we struck up a conversation. They told
> me that they had never been to America before and were in town to spend
> Christmas with their new in-laws. During our chat one of the questions
> I asked them was, "What was the first difference you noticed between
> America and Europe?"
>
> Their response?
>
> "We can't believe how many fat people there are."
>
> Four weeks later and I still can't come up with a decent response to
> that. The fact is, they're right. America has a lot of fat people.
> Notice I didn't say "overweight," either. The word "fat" has a negative
> connotation for a reason and I intend to use it for that express
> purpose. Fat people ought to be ashamed of themselves.
>
> According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, over 65 percent of
> Americans are overweight (fat), and 31 percent are obese (really fat).
> Normally, I'm not one to tell people how to live their personal lives
> but I exempt fat people for two reasons. One: According to the NIH,
> obesity costs the government an estimated $117 billion a year in direct
> medical costs and indirect costs such as lost wages due to illness. I
> resent my tax money going to care for someone so they can continue to
> sit on their couch and stuff endless waves of potato chips into their
> big, fat faces. Two: It smacks of a lack of self control and self
> respect, something every human being needs. No wonder the rest of the
> world laughs at us when we say we are going to stabilize the Middle
> East. We can't even stabilize our own weight!
>
> Don't get me wrong, I know and respect a lot of fat people. They are, by
> and large, great people and I would never dislike someone just because
> they're fat. It is, however, hard to respect them. They give all sorts
> of excuses about why they can't loose weight, but whenever I sit down
> to eat with any one of them they almost always eat twice as much as
> anyone else. When I point this little nugget of truth out they usually
> respond with, "How would you like to be hungry all the time?" My
> response is that I wouldn't, but plenty of people live with discomfort
> worse than hunger every day.
>
> I know this article will anger a lot of people. Send all the hate mail
> you want, but I don't want to hear anyone say anything about
> Prader-Willi Syndrome, leptin deficiencies, or Hypothyroidism. While I
> have no doubt that all these conditions exist, they exist in a very
> small percentage of the population. Furthermore, they still don't have
> any effect on the basic mathematical principal of weight loss: if
> calories spent is more than calories ingested, then weight loss occurs.
> It's why you don't see any corpulently obese Ethiopians on T.V.
>
> Food addiction is another totally acceptable motivation, by the way.
> I'll buy it. I have no doubts that it is a very real and very scary
> position to be in. But, as with any addiction, that doesn't make it
> okay to give in. What I don't understand is, while the fat people
> themselves seem to think it's okay for them to indulge the addiction,
> so does everyone else. We don't pat heroin addicts on the back and then
> give them a hit to shoot up, so why do we watch fat people eat as if
> there isn't a problem?
>
> Most Americans, though, aren't addicts or genetically aberrant, they're
> just lazy. We drive everywhere, we sit on our asses all day, and we
> have enough money to do whatever we want within reason. No, the fat
> problem is, more than anything, cultural. In today's instant
> gratification world, why would anyone do anything that would make them
> uncomfortable? Certainly skipping a meal would be beyond comprehension,
> and doing things like walking to the store are just barbaric. With so
> many great things to do, God forbid we actually take the time to
> control our weight.

Jay


From: Lisa on 22 Jan 2006 22:25
just to make a note, you are including all people who are over weight,
when in fact there are some people who gain weight for a medical
reason, one being a thyroid problem, so please do not clasify all over
weight people.. thanks..

From: Oscar on 23 Jan 2006 01:40
True. But the majority are the people whose eating is out of countrol, like
most of those on this ng.

Cheers.



"Lisa" <HOTnSASSY(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> just to make a note, you are including all people who are over weight,
> when in fact there are some people who gain weight for a medical
> reason, one being a thyroid problem, so please do not clasify all over
> weight people.. thanks..
>


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