Sarah you rock! Every time I hear "obesity epidemic" I cringe. Cause the very term itself is sensationalistic, and brings to my mind images of everyone "catching" this horrible "disease". Like..hey, buddy, better not sit next to me, you might CATCH it. (waves twinkie tauntingly) Argh. Give me a break.
Plus it seems there was already this bad misconception: that everyone at all overweight does nothing but sit home, miserable and dateless and friendless, eating donuts and entire bags of chips day after day. And its simply not true! That a person can be more than a little overweight and STILL have a happy and pretty fulfiling life with lots of friends and decent/good job seems to be a foreign concept. Unfortunately the sensationalist news and headless butt shots, seem to just make this all worse.
I'm waiting for the day..should happen any day now..that they start having the "no fries" section of restaurants, so thin people don't have to be bothered by second hand cholesterel.
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Every time I hear "obesity epidemic" I cringe. Cause the very term itself is sensationalistic, and brings to my mind images of everyone "catching" this horrible "disease". Like..hey, buddy, better not sit next to me, you might CATCH it. (waves twinkie tauntingly) Argh. Give me a break.
Plus it seems there was already this bad misconception: that everyone at all overweight does nothing but sit home, miserable and dateless and friendless, eating donuts and entire bags of chips day after day. And its simply not true! That a person can be more than a little overweight and STILL have a happy and pretty fulfiling life with lots of friends and decent/good job seems to be a foreign concept. Unfortunately the sensationalist news and headless butt shots, seem to just make this all worse.
I'm waiting for the day..should happen any day now..that they start having the "no fries" section of restaurants, so thin people don't have to be bothered by second hand cholesterel.
rant rant rant argh rant.
/rant.