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Fat has become acceptable and even beautiful in America. Look at ads for clothing, in particular, Target. They feature obese people. I'm not talking about stocky, solid people, like Ashley Graham. I'm talking about people with rolls of fat. Even in Hollywood, fat is the new beautiful. Several movies and TV shows have celebrated genuinely obese people.
I consider fat to be a sign of laziness and it's definitely unhealthy. I don't want to see fat people shamed and bullied, but putting them on a pedestal is not right, either. These days it seems like the more freakish and weird you are, the more you are defended and even adored.
yep, it's been a problem for awhile.....and no signs that it's going to get better. Perhaps an incentive.....BMI within normal gets you a tax cut. If you're overweight, you pay more taxes, and if you're obese (like POTUS0, you pay even more taxes.
But it's their thyroid!!! And all the depression meds everyone is on! It's not their fault!
Ha ha. Its always the thyroid meds or depression meds that gets blamed for it. 90% of the blame should go to the person in the mirror, with the remaining 10% towards the mom. I get sooo sick to my stomach when I see young moms giving their kids so much candy/sweets saying "Oh, she likes it and it makes her happy and I just dont want to deprive her.......". Such stupid b.s. that is killing those poor kids.
Just earlier this week, I started a thread in the Daily Exercise Journal board saying how I'd gotten up to 184 lbs and some chick chimed in saying something to the effect of "Isnt that acceptable?". I was like wtf?!?!!?
I find it really sad that there are so many overweight sedentary YOUNG PEOPLE. Those are your peak years. That's the best time for you to be physically active and not have to worry about a stagnant metabolism.
Just earlier this week, I started a thread in the Daily Exercise Journal board saying how I'd gotten up to 184 lbs and some chick chimed in saying something to the effect of "Isnt that acceptable?". I was like wtf?!?!!?
"That chick" was just asking a question, and FTR that weight is within the "acceptable" range for your height.
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But here's another chance for you to give your "exceptional" spiel again.
Before this degenerates into another full-bore fat-bashing thread, one point in the article linked in the OP was that so many people of military age are not physically fit enough to serve. So ...
yep, it's been a problem for awhile.....and no signs that it's going to get better. Perhaps an incentive.....BMI within normal gets you a tax cut. If you're overweight, you pay more taxes, and if you're obese (like POTUS0, you pay even more taxes.
I think we should all get DEXA scans and go by body fat %. Just being "not fat" doesn't really mean you're in shape either. Not fair to target out-of-shape fat people if we let skinny-fat people slide.
For men, under 12% body fat should get you a tax break (women, perhaps less than 20%-ish). Pay the same taxes if you're between 13 and 19% body fat and pay more if you're over 20%. Perhaps tests that measure absolute strength, endurance, flexibility and explosive athleticism (vertical leap, sprinting, broad jump), could also be included.
On the one hand obesity is out of control and is killing people, if not now in the moment then at some age that will be younger than it should have been--and on the other, the rise of overweight models and so forth is widely praised, and if even anyone, even a doctor, mentions that someone needs to lose weight, they get slammed for "fat shaming."
I don't see how any progress can be made under these circumstances. How can we "celebrate" fat models, proclaim that every body is beautiful, and still tell ordinary people that it is not good for them to be so heavy?
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