What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?

[paulpablo]

 I also think, statistically, the concentration of obesity in developed/Western countries is a dead giveaway that it has more to do with lifestyle socioeconomic status than genetics.

Fixed that for you.

The morbidly obese are poor - statistically.  The food they have available to them leads inexorably to obesity -as well- as malnutrition.  They are stuffed and fat, but starving.  That, ultimately, is why they eat so much.  Thy don;t have the sort of food industry in third world shitholes that we have here.  If you uprooted those people, here, and moved them there with all other things remaining the same..they'd be emaciated and starving.  As to excersize....since when?  I think an 80 hour work week qualifies as exercise (and if it doesn't, it doesn't exactly leave much time for "exercise", does it)............. and yet the chubby remain chubby, why might that be?  

"Lifestyle" has just become a convenient smear-word for -any- group a person has a distaste for, particularly when they don't understand them or why they are in the position they are in.  Whats the problem with gays?  Lifestyle.  Blacks?  Lifestyle.  On and on it goes.

Then, ofc, there are people like my daughter.  She's not poor, she eats well, and appropriately, daddy see's too it.  She plays all day, I'm guessing she could run circles around anyone here.  She's also super chubby.  Go figure, lol.  There's nothing unhealthy about her, she's just chubby the way some kids at some points in their development put a little weight on before the next vertical growth spurt.  Her grandmother, on her mothers side...though, shames the shit out of her, like she shamed her own daughter....who wasn't chubby at all.

I still can't get my mind around that.

Last week I worked 86 hours from Monday to Sunday.  I had to to go to the gym for over 3 hours, I hour per day for 3 days Monday to Wednesday.  If you don't have a gym it's easy enough to lift some weight or do some step ups or sit ups.

When I used to do a manual labor job then my work was my gym but I'd still go to the gym ontop of that.

Admittedly my gym motivation is basically that there's good looking women at my gym and it's nice to see some nice ass after being sat in work for 12 hours.

I still had time ontop of that the other days to go visit my daughter.

And as for food, I don't know how it is in America, but you can get instant cous cous, pasta and rice for so on for fairly cheap.  Boil in the bag veg.  
A tin of chick peas is 33p, same with beans too.

I've just visited a website which asks the question why are poor people obese in America, but even on their charts the difference is still less than 10 percent between high earners and very low earners.  High earners being above 75000 and low being below 25000.

The level of obesity according to this chart, in people who earn less than 25000 is 30 percent, going up to people who earn 25000 to 50000 it's only around a 2 or 3 percent difference.

Also on this website it talks about the increase in cost of fruit and veg but I'm pretty sure I can find what anyone would consider to be cheap fruit and veg if I try.  Some of it might not be fresh it might be frozen or in tins though.