OK, I am a bit incensed today. My newservice alerted me today with this headline: Could Obesity be a Big Fat False Alarm? According to a POLITICAL SCIENCE professor FAT isn't such a big deal!
"What I'm saying is that you can be healthy at any particular size. Really important factors are not how much you weigh, but what you eat, and most importantly, how much you exercise,” said J. Eric Oliver, author of “Fat Politics.”
Guess what Mr. Oliver, you just may win the Pulitzer Prize for solving the Obesity problem! To think someone who spent their life in a class room studying and conducting research in the area of social science that involves the systematic study of political institutions and behavior; and figured out that FAT isn't dangerous! That over 300,000 people are year aren't dying because of Obesity! AND, he offers this brilliant reasoning: "we can be healthy as FAT people, but we have to eat better and exercise more".
Someone, please get a hold of the people over at the Institute for the Lack of Common Sense and get this man an award or some grant money for further studying! Mr. Oliver, do you mean if we EAT healthier foods and get some exercise that we will be healthier? HEY, but won't that mean that we will also be THINNER!?
No Mr. Oliver, we fat people do not sit around hoping to be thinner while eating our salads and hoofing it out on the treadmill---doing every thing healthful but staying fat for some mysterious reason. We are fat because we are gorging on McDonalds, sucking down sugar filled soft drinks and NOT exercising, for the most part!
I hope your book sales for "Fat Politics" are good and that you get on Oprah's show to tell the world how the politcal system is simply calling us fat and that we aren't and that we are in fact much healthier than it seems. Goodness, for that matter, tell the 300,000 people who died last year's families that they didn't die due to being obese but because society and politics simply mislabled them!
Folks, the TRUTH is that FAT is dangerous, FAT is deadly, FAT clogs arteries, FAT is unhealthy and FAT isn't necessary! A sendentary lifestyle isn't fun, it isn't fulfilling and isn't empowering. Take a look for yourself at FAT and where a FAT lazy, sedentary life can lead!
Warning, these pictures are hard to look at! To see those pics of Mr. Uribe click here . As you look at these pictures, look at the squalor the man lives in--not only is he FAT I would say that his lifestyle is as unhealthy as he is, or Mr. Oliver, are we to believe that this guy is healthy despite his fat?
So, ask yourself, do you really want that pizza tonight? Is a soft drink really a mindless choice that has NO ramifications? Look closely, you will see a green liter bottle of soft drink within this man's reach, yeah, there's a water bottle too, but I will bet $5 he can't reach that bottle! Do you see how his bedpost is digging into the floor? Do you see the sores on his skin?
Folks, the truth is, fat is deadly, it is addictive and it going to kill too many people if we don't get ourselves under control. Extreme example? YOU BET! Sometimes we need to be scared straight. Hope it made you drop the twinkie!
PS. This man is fighting to get Gastric Bypass surgery. Ok, who is feeding him, buying his food and serving him? He can't even stand much less make it to the grocery store, so PERHAPS his journey should start with cutting back on some food rather than cutting back his stomach? I don't know, call me whacked out but seriously--what needs to be cut out here folks?! Maybe he can be like media darling Patrick Deuel and get headlines across the world as he has gastric bypass surgery and then turn around after having lost 500 pounds and declare that he is still going to eat his fast food, have his soft drinks and no one is going to tell him no, or there "will be hell to pay" because HE is not going to be denied anything that he wants!
What are we really denying ourselves of if we pass up unhealthy foods in favor of getting yes, thinnner, but also healthier?
NOTHING in my opinion.
Carpe Diet!
Julia
http://www.JPSupplement.com make ONE healthy choice today!
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