(July 21, 2015 at 10:04 pm)Metis Wrote: ... And I know you're right about the weight range, it is silly because on a sensible level I know it's more important to be healthy on another less enlightened level I still feel envious of individuals who are or who I think are even skinner than me, even though I know some of them are ill and live on little more than cigarettes and diet Pepsi.
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I agree that being healthy is more important than being attractive, but it is not just that it is healthier. Healthier is better looking as well. Being too thin is not attractive. Not to me, anyway. To me, the ultimate in sexy is very healthy looking. You can think about this from the other end; imagine someone being sickly, coughing up phlegm, etc. That is not sexy. And so, too, is an unhealthy weight unsexy. Whether it is excessive or too little weight. Being healthy is, to a great extent, being good looking.
My advice is to strive for a reasonably healthy lifestyle, so that you live as good of a life as your reasonably can.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
