On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 at 07:12:05, The Voice of Reason
wrote:


Actually even being mildly fat impairs physical movement.

Sorry, but that turns out not to be the case; I am an ice dancer and
although I both need and want to lose weight, I am not allowing the fact
that I carry excess body fat to prevent me from dancing.

Both the
lack of fitness combined with excess weight conspire to mean that the
obese person has a lack of mobility. The worst part is that it's
self-inflicted and so easily curable.

Er, again, that turns out not to be the case. I read somewhere that a
group of very seriously overweight people were, under medical
supervision, put on a carefully calorie-controlled diet, with ample
nutrients and enough calories to maintain a normal body-weight, but lose
excess fat - and their bodies reacted just as though they were being
starved, with all the symptoms of gross malnutrition. So it is not
necessarily easily curable.

Who said anything about unhealthy levels? You'll find that the most
attractive levels of body fat are the healthiest.

Again, that is not always the case. Women tended to be about 10-20 lbs
heavier 50 years ago, yet if you look at some of the "bathing beauties"
of the era, they are still beautiful. Plus there was no thought, then,
of their being unhealthy.

And, unless you consider being out of fashion harmful, it's not really
an health risk.

Fashions don't last thousands of years. Being fat will never be in
fashion.

Have you ever studied history of art, or, indeed, any social history?
Had you done so, you would not have made such a statement.

Also there are real health risks to being fat. Unless you
live in a place hit with famines there is no purpose to obesity.

I think you will find that there is a difference between being "fat" -
i.e. maybe 10-20 lbs over what is now considered an ideal weight - and
being "obese", when you may have anything up to 100 lbs to lose.

If you exercise regularly, it will also not reduce your
ability to move, run and hunt.

If you exercise sufficiencly you will not be fat unless you
deliberately over-eat, end of story.

Again, not true. In this day and age it is all too easy accidentally to
take in more calories than you need - there are so many "hidden"
calories in ready-prepared food.

Maybe all the fat acceptors should go and live in third world
countries then, it's the only place fat people are going to be thought
of as sexually desirable.

Actually, it is less uncommon than you think, even in the so-called
developed world.

I have trimmed the excess cross-posts from this posting.
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