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  • 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

  • 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

  • Wall-E

    I haven't seen the movie yet, but the writer's comments about obesity and the environment are so defensive, I wonder how much he weighs, and whether he drives a Hummer. Yes, genes have a lot to do with our weight, but it's not as if the laws of physics and chemistry don't apply to obese people. Like everyone else, if they take in more calories ...
    Posted to Green Room by Mousie Cat 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

  • 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

  • Seriously? That's What You Got Out Of Wall-E?

    Equating obesity with environmental collapse? Wall-E is a story about consumerism not obesity. It's about a government run by the CEO of a retail chain and how profits and ecology usually don't get along so well. It's a cautionary tale about how blindly following a corporate entity that insists it can provide everything people need to exist by ...
    Posted to Green Room by Freddy-D on July 11, 2008

  • Obesity is not the point

    Mr. Engberger appears to be taking this movie as a personal insult, as is the disgruntled blogger he links to, who also comments on how sad the movie made her by representing the Axiom passengers as fat, dirty and unworthy. (Not a direct quote, but a fairly accurate summation of her complaint.) In my opinion, their outcries miss the point of the ...
    Posted to Green Room by summerwood on July 11, 2008

  • simpleminded analysis

    The movie does not equate the Earth's decay with obesity. It has nothing to do with obesity, unless you count it as a treatise on space travel's hazardous effect on human bone structure.The humans in the movie are 700 years removed from the people who rode the planet to ruin. It's understandable that their understanding of life and their memories ...
    Posted to Green Room by ScottW71 on July 10, 2008