Obesity and how quick we are to accept it.

So i'm sitting here at work listening to Howard Stern and he is talking about how he is being blasted for saying that the girl who was nominated for an Oscar was unhealthy and fat. He is actually bringing to light a very serious issue I think, though may not being going about it in the most curtious manner. But what he says is true, this girl is severly overwieght and unhealthy and everyone is enabling this by telling her she is just fine as she is.

The type and quality of food available today to the masses is causing obesity at an alarming rate and its making a lot of people enormous. But yet is socially taboo to acknowedge this and try and help the person. He makes a valid point that this woman will never have a leading lady career in Holywood. Thats reserved for the "beatiful people".

A lot of people would argue that large companies like Mcdonald, KFC, Burger King etc WANT the masses to be obese. Its making them rich and making burgers just as much of a need in everyday life as Gas, Water and sleep. We are being killed slowly and I for one applaud Howard Stern for championing this cause in his own little way.

I personally find fat people to be greedy and untrustworthy.

People don't get to be morbidly obese through kindness and generosity, they get that way by eating other peoples' lunches.

try and help the person

It doesn't help an obese person to be a jerk. I spent a long time being morbidley obese and unkind, crude comments never helped. In fact they added to the problem.

I am grateful that I had the chance to have bariatric surgery, but it didn't change the person that I am, it just made me smaller.

No surgery exsists to cure asshattiness.

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I personally find asshats to be greedy and untrustworthy.

Look around you, the people are getting bigger all the time, despite Hollywood's best efforts to make us think that it's akin to being a pedo.

You must be lonely.

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Kindness and generosity has nothing to do with it. The problem is that people are hoodwinked into believing that there isn't anything wrong with 90% of the items sold in the grocery stores.

Mcdonald's, KFC, Burger King, junk food companies etc. are to Big Pharma what the car companies are to Big Oil. They work together to ensure maximum profits.

how about a link?
i know how howerd is but not this woman and saying someones over weight is a matter of ech persons view some ppl who u may say are over weight accutly are not so whos this woman

its hard to not gain weight, since everything avaliable to us is fat and bad for our health, so, its very hard ...

if you live with someone that eats crap and dont gain weight, u are done, since its hard to control

the best thing is to exercise everyday, try to get into your routine

another thing

yeah, the girl in the oscar is very sick, he is right and he shouldnt be criticized for telling the TRUTH

if the girl wants to live, she will have to lose some weight

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precious actress



she is not over weight

she is sick

Why does everyone have to be thin? Turn on your television and count how many diet ads you see, or commercials for exercise machines. Maybe the conspiracy is to make people obese. and then make money by selling them diet plans... Some people naturally gain weight more than others, one person can eat fatty foods all month and not look any bigger, but with an other person it might have the opposite effect.

Originally posted by Symbiote
I personally find fat people to be greedy and untrustworthy.

People don't get to be morbidly obese through kindness and generosity, they get that way by eating other peoples' lunches.

I am not really sure how I want to answer your stupid,insensitive,
moronic post...
I am an obese woman and I didn't get this way overnight.I had
seriously injured my right leg which limited my mobility for 2 years.
I tried very hard to watch my diet and tried getting around the best
I could.I packed on some pounds and spread out some.

My leg is healed now and I can get around a lot better.I am now
trying to get back into an exercising routine.It is going to take time
to get my weight down.

I would really put more thought into posting if I were you.You are
making assumptions on people based entirely on their appearance.
That labels you to be a shallow,insenstive,poor excuse for a human
being.

Why would anyone other than a health professional go out of their way to tell large people they're fat?

Do they think large people never look in mirrors?
Do they think large people are too stupid to know what they are seeing?
Or do they just enjoy having a socially acceptable scapegoat to pour their hate-filled venom over?


I once went to a doctor because my kid was sick. First thing I noticed about him (the doctor) was that he'd lost weight. - drastically. He was not interested in my son's earache; he just wanted me to take medication for "my weight problem" and see a diet-loss doctor. (I was 5' 9" and a size 16. I'm large boned, -truly.) At that size, my belly is concave and my chest flat.

Back then I could clean&jerk 75 kilo without trying.

I asked the chemist if the drug I'd been prescribed, noticing he's suddenly lost his baby-fat too. He assured me it was safe enough for a baby and was using it himself, along with his friend, my doctor.

After 2 weeks of craziness I checked with another chemist, who explained this was just speed. I went back to the original chemist, he was ill and so was the doctor.


Being ashamed of being so large, having a husband who kept calling me fatso, I went to the weight-loss specialist to see what he could do.
Seeing the diet I was expected to live on I told him that was impossible, I could never eat that much, but he just laughed, saying unless I had a glandular problem I'd lose weight fast on it. So I diligently tried to eat 1,400 calories a day. Despite not being able to eat it all I put on weight.

At following check-ups the doctor simply wouldn't believe me I was not cheating, and laughed at the idea I might have some "glandular problem" saying all fatties try to use that as an excuse.


During all this time I'd been suffering from what the doctor's called chronic fatigue syndrome. Despite having been a healthy country girl who thought nothing of walking 10 miles, and who had trained in cycling with a top guy's club because the other girls couldn't keep up with me, I was finding it getting harder and harder to do anything. My heart kept going crazy and I'd be sweating and panting over a small walk, and I just wanted to sleep all the time.

Eventually a good doctor figured out I had thyroid problems and chronic heart failure.


Many skinny people in this world can pig out freely on all sorts of rubbish and not get fat.
Many large people are eating very low calorie diets just as a way of life, being large does not mean you even like sweet foods, fast foods or eat large portions.

Would you insult someone with cancer? I hope not, but undoubtedly some common behaviours do contribute to cancer in some people.
It's no better to insult a large person. You have no idea what physical ailments or environmental problems that person has to contend with.

Obeasity is a very serious problem. I would go as far as to say the various outcomes of being obese are terminal.

There are so many unhealthy and dangerous illnesses an obese person is more inclined to get than a person of average weight,

The problem I see is that there are so many reason for being obese.
Some of the reasons are:
1. Poor eating habits learned during childhood.
2. Low self esteem.
3. Eating when worried or depressed.
4. Ignorance of proper nutrition.
5. Destructive mental attitude.
6. Chemical or physical condition in the body.

The only way I see to correct the problem is with education and personal assistance on a daily basis.

Obese People Anonymous would seem like a good place to start but there is no weight loss program based on the 12 step program like AA or Na.

Obese people are not obese because they want to be.

Originally posted by Symbiote
I personally find fat people to be greedy and untrustworthy.

People don't get to be morbidly obese through kindness and generosity, they get that way by eating other peoples' lunches.

I personally find thin people self obsessed and judgemental.

See it's really easy to write a ridiculous comment! I hope I get a star too!


On a serious note.....

Yes obesity is a problem, and needs addressing! but that doe's not mean you can't call a large woman beautifull or say she looks great, because she can look great! not to everbody, because we are all different and like different things, but she can be and is beautifull to many people! how hard is it for people to understand this? seems pretty simple to me!

It's a serious problem, and speaking from experience I doubt there is an obese person out there who hasn't tried to improve themselve's, it's not easy! emotional eating is a very real, serious and hard thing to live with let me tell you! maybe calling someone beautifull could be just the thing they need to spur them on to success and a healthier lifestyle? calling them greedy, untrustworthy and fat certainly isn't! that can just create a whole bunch of other issues! and so the cycle continues.....

Originally posted by Symbiote
People don't get to be morbidly obese through kindness and generosity, they get that way by eating other peoples' lunches.

In Soviet Russia, fat people eat YOU!(Andrei Chikatilo reference)


Our American culture is so saturated with ads about eating unhealthy food from fast food commericals to junk food for children, and the only food that the poor can provide their families with is processed food, because real food costs so much. All the while generations of children are brainwashed to be as unhealthy thin as pop stars, models and actresses, while they are encouraged to sit at computers and TVs.

Remember the Dove soap ad controversies? Average images of women(they were not obese or even close to fat) being ridiculed and that people demanded models. Magaine sales, of women's mags!, that sell with images of enhanced cleavage....bigger the boobs on the cover=more magazine sales. The whole "Generation Me" controvesey, says that every young people, fat or skinny is brought up to think they are a "beautiful princess" or "hunk", no matter their weight or what anyone says. When deep down they lack any self worth because they can never live up to projected standards even beyond genetics and BMI (including jobs, careers and other competetive roles in society).

This is a very confusing time to our youth and culture...and a very unhealthy time mentally and physically.

Yes... this actress is obese. I would bet you that is partly genetics, part of her that she may not be able to fully change(loose some weight but never be small) as a "Big Woman"... should she be put on a pedestal because of her weight as it may justify obese celebs being okay? Not anymore than an anorexic looking supermodel should, as both are very unhealthy. Should she be allowed to have self esteem? Of course!

Look what came out today... Junk Food "Addiction" May Be Real

[edit on 29-3-2010 by dreamingawake]

I have struggled with weight all my adult life. I was born with a high metabolism, and in my early 20's I was a model for many years, then I got MS and a thyroid problem and all of assudden I had to relearn how and what I could eat.

In the times in my life where I didnt care, I gained weight. In the times in my life where I cared about not caring, I made the choice to begin working out at the gym and eating under a calorie target, and you lose weight.

Personally, I hate being overweight. Especially because I was a model and I used to look perfect. Its hard going from perfect to overweight. But, I learned alot of humility from it. It takes a hell of alot of self control to lose weight with Multiple Sclerosis and a Tyroid Disorder. But - Ive done it- and if I can do it- so can other people. No excuses.

At the end of the day, people who are obese should not be excused. They are slowly killing themselves allowing themselved to be more than 50 lbs overweight. They know that, they just dont care enough to make the effort to change. Thats what its all about. And it takes time to get to that point. But most of the people in this world, dont know a DAMN thing about self control. Its sad- but either they get it- or they dont. Its their journey.