6 Responses

1. Amanda K

   2009 Nov 28 1

   I think that is will cause wide world health problems.
   People do not realize that extra weight will do very bad things to your body. It is not healthy. Your heart will pay the price for it in the end. If you do not take care of your body, one day it will return the favor.
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2. ebemdpa

   2009 Nov 28 2

   It’s insanity. There are so many bad things that go along with obesity, including high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, gallbladder disease, uterine cancer, exhaustion, heart failure, breast cancer, etc. the list goes on and on. All these risks GO AWAY if you lose weight. Obesity surgery works when all else fails. The drive for "fat acceptance" is as crazy as trying to convince people that smoking is good for them.
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3. cycerical

   2009 Nov 29 3

   I think that it is hideous that people should be able to screw with smokers and yell at them and people not to care but then we can’t go up to an obese person and slap food from their hands and shout at them. I don’t think that framing obesity as positive is healthy but posing not being supermodel thin as beautiful will help the image crisis currently affecting many teenagers.
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4. Christine

   2009 Nov 29 4

   Fat is not beautiful. It is unhealthy, being a little on the thick side is fine, but beautiful is healthy-looking, it’s the same thing for people who are too thin. If someone is thinking that being obese is a positive and healthy lifestyle they are so wrong, there is nothing wrong with self-confidence but being obese definitely gives you a huge risk of having heart disease/failure and high blood pressure, it is unrealistic.
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5. jk poet

   2009 Nov 29 5

   I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT A FAT PERSON IS HEALTHY AND ALL THAT IS POSSIBLE SHOULD BE DONE TO HELP THEM BECAUSE THE WORLD HAS SAID ONLY SKINNY IS ACCEPTABLE AND VERY SKINNY GIRLS SHOULD BE HELPED ALSO 20 25 POUNDS OVERWEIGHT IS NOT WHAT I WOULD CALL FAT BUT TO EACH HIS OWN
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6. Joekenorer

   2009 Nov 29 6

   No, obesity is not a healthy idea. It is attractive to many people and by no means makes a person bad or stupid, but it is unhealthy. Being an obese person myself, I have thought a lot about this. Flavor is addictive. Foods that taste good are very addictive, Just think of kids and candy, If allowed, they will eat it all day everyday. When we get older our tastes change, we want a more mature flavor, but that addiction is still there, just in a different form. Americas economic success inevitably brought about the ready availability of rich, tasty foods. And they are available to us at any time of any day. This makes it feel like a sacrifice to go on a diet and/or eat healthy. But what do we do? We can’t just shut down all these major food companies and farmers and historic food developments by stopping them from being produced, thats just not realistic. I’m sure our forefathers imagined the feasts and evolution of the American quisine, but they could not even imagine how rampant the obesity and poor health would overwhelm us. And even if they did, they surely would not have known what to do whilst still upholding human freedom. Its an inevitability of any truly successful civilization. Education is the only way to fix this. We can’t just make people be healthy, we have to convince them to want to be healthy more than they want to eat good food. I’m still waiting to be convinced myself. Education is the only redemption for our country, and I don’t mean standard school education, I mean basic everyday common sense education, this is where we are lacking.
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