I read in the LA Times that normal weighted people are "fed up" with supporting the fat. As health care costs increase and obesity continues to rise, fat people are becoming the "smokers" of the 21st century.
In the middle of last century, you could smoke almost any and everywhere; now you have to smoke many feet from open windows and almost any doorway. Will fat people no longer be allowed in restaurants? Will you have to pay a tax to eat a full-fat non-turkey burger?
Recently I heard that Tom Cruise doesn't have a "healthy" BMI; he's too short for his weight. Shaquille O'Neal is incredibly outside of the range. I've also seen research that more body fat on some older people is more healthy when compared for the "normal" weighted. And we all know that Jim Fixx died of what seems to be a genetic propensity for heart disease but this founder of modern day running lived 10 years longer than his non-running father.
All the "data" could make your head explode! So let's stick to the anecdotal:
My thin paternal grandmother lived longer than my generally chunkier maternal grandmother; honestly, the maternal one was a much happier person until she wasted away with the complications of cancer (my theory, she didn't want to be tested and we didn't do an autopsy;) she was 79 years old in 1995.
I am on a diet, and have come to terms with the knowledge and practice that I will always be on one. And every week I will have days when I eat too much and then live through hours when I am hungry. It's my life; and it's a pretty good one. At this rate in one more year, I'll reach my goal weight but still be marginally overweight or overweight; it depends on which site you look at. And how is that working out? Which is right? This one I just found, Halls Something.
It will be scary when the skinny people come for me with their torches and pitchforks? Maybe my girth will be enough to block the door and keep me safe.
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