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  • Overweight = Unlovable??

    I, too, find Amy's response to the overweight 23-year-old shocking. It is possible to be a size 20 and be healthy and fit, with excellent cholesterol and blood pressure. There is no indication that this young woman is unhealthy. In fact, being overweight is less of a risk factor than being underweight. It's just a cosmetic problem. It's not like ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by joniholderman on September 4, 2008

  • Personal responsibility, people?

    This article was among the bigger loads of hogwash I've ever read. Genetics plays ''more'' of a role in obesity than behavior and diet? Bull. Travel some. Go to Asia. Maybe the Mediterranean. People are thin there. There simply aren't chubby children scarfing down Happy Meals everywhere you look (like there are here). But Asian and ...
    Posted to Green Room by ENH 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

  • Re: article got it wrong

    I agree that this article got it wrong - though in a rather different sense. The movie itself does not blame obesity for the world's collapse, but rather blind consumerism. If you watch the ''Buy 'N' Large'' commercials in the film and take a look at the portraits in the captain's chambers, you'll notice that they are images of rather trim ...
    Posted to Green Room by ceciliasnightingale on July 11, 2008

  • Are you Kidding Me????

    Well Mr. Daniel Engber . . . you sure seem to have missed the point completely. Did you even watch the movie? You might want to do a little more research on your facts before you decide to write something so false. How this got past the editors desk and posted on Slate completely baffles me.
    Posted to Green Room by cheesesamich on July 11, 2008

  • Umm, a few assumptions here

    I had to scroll up and check if I was reading the Onion after starting this article. Apologies if I read this wrong, this parody of journalism may have been over my head. ''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.'' '' obesity is ...
    Posted to Green Room by luke464 on July 11, 2008