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Why is it so important to you that it is not okay. I mean really if you are not fat why does it even matter to you? It seems you really want people to hate themselves for being fat. It seems you want to label all fat people the same and judge them. Why is this important to you to do?

If there were more acceptance of fat people and less judgment, I am sure there would actually be less fat people. Yes, people who are depressed and shameful are more likely to over eat and not exercise. So, if you really want to have an effect on the number of fat people out there, change your attitude and help other people do the same.

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I never said there are not risks for being fat. But, I am saying that they are overstated and overblown for the sake of the ama's pockets and that the medical studies we see on the evening news are often funded by drug companies.

Of course you can be overweight and unhealthy and yes, it is harder to get good exercise when you are big. But, you can be thin and unhealthy, too. Yet, most people look at a fat person and assume many many things about them, including that they are unhealthy.

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So, you are willing to pay for diabetes care for a thin person but not a fat person? Why? Because they can "help it". Thin people die of diabetes, cancer and all the other things, too. What about people who go hiking and get lost, or people who ride bikes and motorcycles without helmets, aren't you paying for them, too? Or smokers? What about heavy drinkers? Would you only not be okay with it if they were fat?

There are any number of "identifies" that cost society more. Men for example cost much more in medical bills, but we do not consider them "optional".

I think the idea that "it is okay with me, except when it costs me" is just an excuse for fat hatred.

And actually, Fat Hatred is something that contributes to bad health. Fat people feel depressed because of how they are treated and they don't work out as much because of the way they are treated, this contributes to poor health.

If the government REALLY cared about fat people's health they would start fat gyms and community centers where people could work out without being humiliated. But, of course they wouldn't do that because that would COST them money and the way things are now is MAKING them money - loads of it.

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Has it occurred to you that the "medical facts" are the things that are being manipulated to continue to make us all think we are sick and need to be fixed. 30 billion dollars a year are spent on pills and "cures". There is big money to be lost if we start to think for a minute that maybe we are okay.

Consider these words from Paul Campos: ...."Americans are enjoying longer lives and better health than ever before, the claim that four out of five of us are running serious health risks because of our weight sounds exactly like the sort of exaggeration that can produce a cultural epidemic of fear, bearing no relation to any rational assessment of risk. "

See article here: http://www.mamashealth.com/book/omyth.asp

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