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Fat Excuses
by Jane Greenwood
Reading the news today I found a flurry of current stories about fatties. Perhaps "flurry" doesn't convey the necessary gravity, since it is not a matter to take lightly. The most recent data; previously classified information, delayed from public scrutiny a few years lest it cause mass apathy, shows that numbers of obese Americans (34%) now outnumber the merely overweight (32.7). Yet it can't be any fewer now, even with the tasty sounding "credit crunch" biting.
You have to be a blimp before even showing up on the radar as being officially "overweight". I would have to be 15kg or so heavier before qualifying, and by then I would look full-term pregnant with triplets. Talking of which: a hell of a lot of obese women are somehow overcoming their reduced fertility and are now "eating for two."
Some British maternity units have had to widen doorways of delivery rooms because so many women of gargantuan proportions are breeding. Up to half of women giving birth in some areas are obese. It's phenomenal! But you know what these women will say: "Me?! Obese?! I'm pregnant!". It's the obvious way to justify rotundity and to prove someone found their kancles sexy. This is now the lifestyle choice of the majority of US voters. Isn't it fascinating to see such rapid evolution within a generation?
What about being underweight?
What about being underweight? I'm not an extreme example, but I am skinny and has always been.
Is being underweight more "green" or do you think it's just as harmful as being overweight?
And yet everyone is in denial
I can't get over how far into denial people are about their own weight. Common excuses I hear are:
When did personal responsibility die?
I'm one of those people
My excuse is that it's mostly muscle. I'm still a lot leaner than most guys my age, or even those ten years younger, though I don't pretend that I'm ripped. It took me many years of hard work to be considered officially obese by BMI standards!
Corrupt has covered fat people enough...
We live in a society filled with fat people, we know this. Corrupt has covered the problem in numerous columns and I think it's time we stop recycling information and focus on more constructive approaches other than tossing the word fatty around.