"I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder"

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Far more people die every year due to obesity and issues relating directly to being overweight than they do to being underweight. I'd like to see any study that suggests otherwise.

Starvation is probably a more egregious problem with the world than the enabling of excess.

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

There's something, you said you wanted to see it, after all.

For counter, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/

"65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight."

So, yes and no, on face value alone. I disagree that "65%" is "far more"... it's opinion though, and it is utterly arbitrary: both are responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths and billions of illnesses each year...

And both are utterly preventable (save disease-given/malfunctionary). But for that, society itself needs to change... and it abhors change.

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The fact that she has worked to gain weight, and is declared a fat sow by others... until she starts to bitterly believe it herself...?

That's the cruelest thing in her post... it's the raison d'etre of the whole thing... and it's the ignorance of this in your post that most stands out. It's somewhat hilarious to see that this was the utter point of what she said... and it was pointing directly at you.

'I may be 'fat', but I beat my eating disorder.' This is about the perception of others, human social psychology... that she had an eating disorder is but an aside; a symptom of a problem alarmingly prevalent in our society in general. This is how people make her feel, driving her back again and again with their judgmental projections of what is.

It's just, so hilariously over your head, Nappy