<p>Yeah I remember the"underweight people are unhealthy too "thing…</p>
<p>Well according to my BMI Im underweight but i would guess I’m healthier than a fat guy</p>
<p>I would bet that there are more unhealthy fat people than unhealthy people who are at their correct weight.</p>
<p>[Well</a> this explains why fat guys might have repressed anger](<a href=“http://ww.annarbor.com/news/new-u-m-study-finds-boys-with-higher-body-fat-more-likely-to-delay-puberty/]Well”>New University of Michigan study finds boys with higher body fat more likely to delay puberty)</p>
<p>(I just searched Umich Fat Studies to see if we had that class, but I got this instead)</p>
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What, no Wall Street Fat Cats?</p>
<p>As for the point of overweight people making less money and having lower positions on average, it isn’t a “poor because they’re fat” thing. Often, it is the other way around. Poor people in the US nowadays are more likely to be overweight, given the expensive nature of many healthy foods and the lack of proper education. Therefore, your numbers are skewed towards more poor people being fat. It doesn’t mean that fat people don’t get jobs because they’re fat (though this very well may be the case for some), it is more likely that the poorer people with less money and who make fewer wise choices in what to eat are more likely to be fat than upper class people. So, really, correlation does not imply causation. When lower income and obesity correlate, don’t just assume that obesity caused the lower income, because, statistically, it’s more likely to be the other way around.</p>
<p>“When lower income and obesity correlate, don’t just assume that obesity caused the lower income, because, statistically, it’s more likely to be the other way around.”</p>
<p>Like I said, I was simply quoting the passage of the book (which happened to have studies on the matter for anyone who was curious about the literature and its methodology on the subject). I made absolutely no statement as to whether or not I agreed with the passage, or thought that the points it made were legitimate. Hence the statement to “take this as you will.” Saying that it’s “my numbers” implies that I am endorsing what was said, when I was merely providing a reputable source (textbook passage) to aid in the discussion.</p>
<p>I appreciate that not very many people have thought about popular stereotypes regarding fat people as a form of prejudice. As the quote someone posted makes clear, there is published data documenting rampant weight-based prejudice and discrimination in all aspects of a person’s like from employment and education to travel, dating, and mainstream media.</p>
<p>I hope that people here don’t really believe prejudice and discrimination are okay if they target people who could change themselves on any particular characteristic. Religion is largely a choice. You don’t support religious intolerance, do you? </p>
<p>Oh, perhaps you think you’re concerned for fat people’s health. Really? That’s why you’re mean to fat people? To improve our health?</p>
<p>As a fat person, I am not allowed to buy health insurance. Weight discrimination is very dangerous to my health. Otherwise, I enjoy excellent health. Thank you! (Cuz I can tell you’re concerned about me!!!) I eat my veggies. I enjoy being physically active. I look a <em>lot</em> like my mother, who is 87 years old, and fat, and beautiful, and healthy!</p>
<p>There’s a whole new field in science and health professions called Health At Every Size. The experts there are great at explaining how all of the existing medical data shows that our current, weight-based definitions of health are not only inaccurate, they’re damaging to health for people of all sizes. Meanwhile, the Health At Every Size approach is both good for health and good for social justice!</p>
<p>The field of fat studies is new, also. It’s interdisciplinary and attracting more new students and scholars all the time. Fat studies is an intellectually rigorous approach to critiquing social structures around weight and embodiment.</p>
<p>If you plan to harsh on me or on fat studies, keep in mind your words will kinda prove the point that fat-hate is rampant and uncool. Eat your veggies. Exercise joyfully. And stop hating on bodies (your own and others’)!</p>
<p>I should also point out that a person should be able to eat a donut or skip the gym or get sick every now and then and not jeopardize their entire civil rights, social status, etc!</p>
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I meant “your numbers” as “the numbers you posted.” Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.</p>
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There are some healthy fat people. However, please see this: [Obesity</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Obesity - Wikipedia”>Obesity - Wikipedia)</p>
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I don’t think people here are advocating being mean to fat people.</p>
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I also don’t see anyone advocating eliminating the civil rights of the obese.</p>
<p>Donuts should be outlawed, gym should be mandatory, the ill should be quarantined.</p>
<p>Welcome to your Fantasy.</p>
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<p>Awesome. So if I disagree with a fat person is MUST be because I am prejudice against them. Does women’s studies teach that too? If I disagree with a woman I MUST be sexist. If I disagree with a black guy I MUST be racist. Sheesh</p>
<p>If you felt that weight discrimination was as damaging to your life as you make it out to be…how bout a little diet and exercise? P90X? Everyone is capable of dropping a few.</p>
<p>I think that being mean to overweight people for the sake of making them feel bad or just to be mean is wrong. </p>
<p>But I wouldn’t go as far as calling it fat hate when a fat person is turned down for a job or when someone doesn’t jump on the fat pride bandwagon. </p>
<p>If your weight is the reason why you can’t get a decent job or insurance, then “donuts” are too high on your list of priorities and your health and finances are not high enough.</p>
<p>“If you felt that weight discrimination was as damaging to your life as you make it out to be…how bout a little diet and exercise? P90X? Everyone is capable of dropping a few.”</p>
<p>Unless you’re like me and have hypothyroidism, and struggle extremely to lose weight. Before I started on my medication, for four years I would eat 800 cals a day, run 1-2 hours a day and STILL gain weight lol. Meds help, but its still much more difficult for me to lose weight than for most people. Its easy to judge someone like me for being lazy/a pig, but not know my story.</p>
<p>Well its definitely not everyone whos fat. I mean, some people just drew the gene short straw, no offense</p>
<p>But… America’s not the fattest country because of our genes. There are a lot a stupid, unhealthy, lazy people in the world</p>
<p>I would never be proud of my weight, regardless of whether I was thin or not- it’s a bad idea to associate pride and weight for some people. And yeah, I absolutely could exercise more and eat differently, but it wouldn’t make THAT big a difference for me. My parents are both overweight and I am a “clone” of my mother. I carry my weight the same way she does and I tend to carry extra in places that aren’t as aesthetically pleasing. I have no control over how my body stores fat and how it will look to the outside world. Essentially, I will look fat even if I was a more normal weight. That’s the way it is. So honestly, stop assuming fatness in regards to appearance is always controllable. </p>
<p>Now, do I think there needs to be a field of study devoted to this? No. A class, maybe, but not a major. It might be a cool dissertation. So in summation, cruelty is bad and annoying fill-in-the-blankj Studies majors are a waste of resources sometimes.</p>
<p>That is, for lack of wanting to say it any other way, bs. You have to be fat because your parents are fat? If you were at your correct weight it wouldn’t be any different than being at your current weight? That is a pure unadulterated load of a load of a bucket of crap and you have to know that. </p>
<p>No, you can’t control how your body stores fat, but you can surely control what you are putting into your body. You can also decide to exercise more, which will also control how much fat your body stores. </p>
<p>Maybe you won’t look like a supermodel or the archetypal fit person, but most people don’t. The purpose of good diet and exercise is to be the best you that you can be. You can’t “honestly” believe that being overweight to the point where you can’t get insurance is the best you can do. You’re just making excuses for yourself, really.</p>
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Congenital hyperthyroidism is present in about 0.03% of the population. That’s about 78,000 Americans. There are 93 million obese Americans. What excuse do the other 92,922,000 have?</p>
<p>No, I totally agree (although it’s more like 10% of the population, a lot of th cases go undiagnosed because of problems within the endocrinologist community) and I don’t think there’s an excuse for the vast majority f the people who don’t put the effort in. The problem is when people make judgements based on preconceptions of laziness when there are actually underlyig conditions like medical problems or eating disorders. When these people get pressure on them from others to lose weight, it can really exacerbate the instability they already feel…the comments I got when I was at my heaviest really were part of the triggers that eventually pushed me into anorexia.</p>
<p>There was an article this week actually…brittains “fattest teen” is now struggling with anorexia and fighting for life. It just shows how unhappy relationships with food can manifest on both ends of the weight spectrum</p>
<p>uh… 0.03% and 10% is a ****ing giant difference</p>
<p>It’s the people whose obesity is caused by laziness and carelessness that make it hard for that small percentage of people who actually have a valid medical reason to be overweight.</p>