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  • Define "wrong message"

    I appreciated this article, because as much as I loved Wall-E, it is refreshing to read something examining a point of view other than pure unadulterated awe. Additionally, I followed most of the links, and found the ''Junkfood Science'' article especially interesting. And I did walk out of the theater behind an overweight blonde man with a buzz ...
    Posted to Green Room by MissIngraham on July 11, 2008

  • Regarding the Wall-E article...

    ''Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.'' You'll find no bigger supporter of the first amendment than me. However, I think the statement above, quoted from the article is a little biased. To me, it sounds like someone who is just looking for a reason to look down on ...
    Posted to Green Room by CWickham on July 11, 2008

  • Fat enough

    I couldn't even finish this article. I am sure that some people can't help being fat. All your science aside I have known many people that went from an active lifestyle to an inactive one and gained a lot of weight. Period. If you don't care enough about your own body to eat right, exercise, and generally take care of the one and only thing in ...
    Posted to Green Room by digitalmonkeys on July 11, 2008

  • Poor analysis

    C'mon. The movie in no way argues a connection between obesity and environmental degradation. The movie shows (1) that the earthly environment was ruined, and (2) 700 years later people are fat. We know nothing about the weight of people before (1), let alone before (2). The inference drawn by this article is simply poor reasoning. While I'm at ...
    Posted to Green Room by kidblue on July 11, 2008

  • Are you crazy?

    ''But there's little evidence that overeating causes obesity on an individual level and no real reason to think that anyone can lose a lot of weight by dieting.'' Wow... That was, well...stupid. So, there's no evidence that our lifestyles are the cause of weight gain. The follow-up sentence was even more intelligent. That children who watch TV ...
    Posted to Green Room by Xnegd on July 11, 2008

  • Bad Genetics?

    All right, the connection between obesity and environment is wrong. But if your thesis that obesity is 80% caused by genetics is correct, how comes that the US are the fattest country in the world? Just a lot of people with bad DNA? I think you grossly underestimades the effect that modern US lifestyle has on people with a predisposition to gain ...
    Posted to Green Room by Giuliano974 on July 11, 2008

  • WALL-E

    I disagree that Wall-E makes a connection between obesity and environmental issues. The film clearly indicates that the ''loss of bone mass'' occurred because of space travel, and the availability of hoverchairs (originally for the elderly). The environment was a mess before humans left Earth, and the obesity occurred after, and partly becuase ...
    Posted to Green Room by Jevanyn on July 11, 2008

  • Take a load off; you're getting riled for the wrong reasons

    I am really sick and tired of this new talk about Wall-e hating fat people...and it's only just begun I'm sure. Every slightly overweight person is likely to have this kind of reaction. I'm pretty disappointed in Slate too because normally I'm not exposed to such backward thinking as this article entails. The main jest I've gotten is that fat ...
    Posted to Green Room by Raynabeth on July 11, 2008

  • Can a night Owl become a morning person? I did!

    Oh yes. The infamous title of ''night owl''. I have been dubbed a night owl for as far back as I could remember. I have never liked getting up early in the morning, nor have I ever enjoyed getting less than eight hours of sleep in one evening. After having my son, I had tried and tried to become a morning lover but I had failed miserably. I've ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by SaphireLee on June 17, 2008

  • Its time to shut up about the cost of obesity...

    I propose a ''sin'' tax on all junk food/fast food (cookies, candy, ice cream, burgers, fries, soda's, processed treats, all snack food (ie. Corn Chips, Potato Chips, etc.), all fast food (ie. McDonald's, Burger King, and independents etc.) The tax would be pennies on the purchase of each item, so your .99 burger will now be 1.05, add this up and ...
    Posted to Science by Indigogirl on February 20, 2008
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