http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7782238Oh my.
As one might guess, it's a pretty massive campfire.
nonconformist (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 12:21 AM
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Nightline: Is It Ok to Be Fat?
This is the topic of Nightline tonight. They're having a "face-off" debate between people who say being obese can be healthy and people who think eating right and exercising is the answer.
Anyone watch? It's on my DVR, I just started watching and it's pretty interesting so far.
Here's a story about the show:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/fat-question-debated-ni...
951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 12:23 AM
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1. I don't know I'll have to ask Dr. Diabetes, Mr. Heart Disease and Sir. High Blood Pressure first
Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 01:39 AM
Response to Reply #1
22. You might want to give Jim Fixx a call as well
Oh, yeah. He's dead, isn't he?
Thin people get diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure as well.
And away we go.....
Roon (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 12:26 AM
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3. There is a reason you hardly see obese elderly people
This is stupid.Being a former health nut I know for a fact that it's NOT ok to be overweight. It's very bad for you. I need to get back on the wagon and work on losing weight and getting fit again.
Hmmm.
It seems to me the roon primitive needs to stop running up to northern Colorado to see that one guy every Monday night, too.
Sexually-transmitted ailments cause a lot of problems, too.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 01:11 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #08 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #5
44. Thank you for telling it from the other side!
I saw a lot of skinny diabetics and heart patients. I didn't see many non smoking heart patients.
Skinny doesn't automatically mean healthy and fat doesn't mean morally lax. They're body types.
There is also mounting evidence that the obesity epidemic isn't all due to fizzy sodas and fast food, it sure as hell wasn't in my case. There's mounting evidence that an infectious agent is also at work.
Ooops, franksolich hit a speed-bump here.
The defrocked warped primitive is somewhat stout because of a.....germ?
Lyric (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 12:46 AM
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14. Oh yay, another Hate the Fatties thread.
Come on, give me some of that sweet, sweet "Love the Fattie, Hate the Fat" sugar. Please, please group us all into one big FAT stereotype and tell us how disgusting we are, how terrible we smell, how sick and tired you are of the fact that some of us have the NERVE to value ourselves WITHOUT concern for our weight. How dare we!
Then make sure to end it with some snooty, sneering comment about how you don't hate fat people--you just hate our effect on the environment, resources, healthcare, and your delicate sensibilities when you are forced to endure the nauseating sight of some fat person who's wearing something tighter than a canvas tent.
Make sure to include the Liberal Bigot Escape Hatch comment about how you realize that not ALL of us "choose" to be this way, and that some of us have "medical reasons"...and then go on to insult and degrade us anyway, because we all know that you don't REALLY believe that more than a scant handful of us fall into that category.
Oh, sorry--I didn't meant to preempt you as you were gearing up to heap all of the insults and judgement upon us that we so RICHLY deserve! My apologies; sometimes I forget that I'm an Icky Fat Girl and I should therefore shut up and listen to my slender betters, just like they told me in elementary school...and middle school...and high school...and just about everywhere else too, come to think of it.
Please carry on, patriots. There are fatties that need to be put in their place!
Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 01:33 AM
Response to Reply #14
20. Thank you, Lyric
If the garbage and bullying thrown at the fat on this site concerned any other group, the thread would be scrubbed and locked, and people would get what they have coming.
I'm one of those fat people who have the "acceptable" dead thyroid and resulting metabolic issues. I asked one of the nastier posters on the thread two weeks ago if I should wear a symbol on my sleeve -- after all, they'd want to know that I was one of the "okay" fat people, evidently. I'm still waiting for an answer. Evidently, nobody else has the guts to be truthful about their prejudice and bigotry, do they?
Hate. Just another progressive value.
The primitives are just now finding out Hate is another primitive value?
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 12:50 AM
THE HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP PRIMITIVE
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15. Yes. And watching NBC right now I was thinking there should be a fat olympics.
Exact same sports. Exact same prizes. Exact same prestige. Only contestants must be 400 lbs or more to enter. Figure skating would be the highlight.
And the gigantic primitive could compete in the card-dealing contest.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 12:56 AM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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16. A recent study I posted in the Health forum stated that people who are overweight in their later years have a lower death rate than either the thin or those with normal weight. The determining factor was activity, not weight, and obese people who maintained healthy activity levels did the best of all groups, with active normal weight people and thinner people doing equally poorly.
My own feeling as I blimped up after I turned 50 without changing either diet or activity was that my body was piling on extra weight to help it survive the health challenges ahead.
It really is time to rethink those weight charts for older people, at any rate, although overweight in children and young adults is well known to predispose them to all sorts of illness.
Hmm. So the defrocked warped primitive started packing on the pounds in late 1999, early 2000, about the time she was casting too-covetous eyes at the locked narcotics cabinet in the hospital.
Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 03:56 PM
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58. AH yes, another threading inviting people to make fun of the fat people
Even if not you intent, that is how it will end up.
I dare say, nothing makes me want to stick to my diet more then some good old fashioned fat bashing. Low self esteem is a GREAT motivator.
nonconformist (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 04:41 PM
Response to Reply #58
59. No, that wasn't my intent.
It was the topic of the show Nightline last night, a show I know many DU'ers watch from time to time. I thought it was an interesting show. I posted a link to a clip and the full debate above if anyone wants to actually watch the show and comment on it, but of course that will never happen. It's easier to make a snide comment based on the thread title.
Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-24-10 04:51 PM
Response to Reply #59
60. I know that wasn't your intent
But these threads always turn out the same. Same people, same responses, same bad ending.
