Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Type 2 Diabetes, Abnormal Blood Fats, Metabolic Syndrome, Cancer, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome, Reproductive Problems And Gallstones
They also go on to report on the rise of these conditions in children, where they use to be almost unheard of. In fact, the number of children who are obese in the US has tripled in the last thirty years. Tripled! They don't even mention all the joint problems that are caused. But knee and hip replacements are also on the rise, due to the fact that people's joints can't handle the weight and just give out.
Yikes! So knowing all of this there is no way that anyone would be okay with being overweight, right? People would be active in their pursuit of a healthy body weight through diet and exercise, right? And no one would be supportive of friends and family becoming so overweight that their health become a real concern, right? Wrong. A very sad, dangerous, obnoxious, and enragingly hypocritical movement has been sweeping the US (and other western nations) for a few years now. It's called Body Positivity. It sounds reasonable enough. The whole idea seems to be that people should not hold themselves to impossible beauty standards and love the person they are, as they are. But, that is not at all what the body positivity crowd is really all about. What they really want is to let the laziest and most gluttonously out of control among us off the hook. They actually push the (totally nonsensical) idea that not only is big beautiful but that it's also healthy and anyone who says otherwise is branded as a "fat-shamer". But big is neither beautiful or healthy, and both science and human evolution tell us so.
We've already gone over medical science's reason's why packing'em on is maybe not the best idea. You do remember the list, don't you? But what about evolution? If the only thing that happened to you when you plumped up was that you became unhealthy, I guess that would be your own problem. But something else happens. You become pretty darn repulsive to the opposite sex. Yeah. These gigantic people are having a Hell of a time getting dates, much less marriage proposals. As you might imagine, the porkiest among us aren't super happy about this. But doing something about it like, I dunno, dieting, and exercising are totally out of the question. Why? Because that would mean actually admitting that they are the cause of their own problems and then taking responsibility for them in the form of actions. They can't even begin to comprehend doing that. So instead they have decided to live is a bizarro world and to force their delusional self-love on the rest of us. Demonizing anyone who dares to speak the reality that they are, well, kinda gross. This is the reason that our body-positive friends keep pushing their mindless mantra on us all. They are hoping to somehow trick us into believing something that our own biology tells us is wrong. Say it with me now "big is beautiful, big is beautiful, big is beautiful". But it's not working.
Men and women are both programmed by nature to look for certain physical attributes in the opposite sex. This is a biological fact. Men want a woman with a small waist and a chest and hips that form and hourglass shape. This shows her to be healthy and able to birth healthy children. Which is a good thing. Women look for a man with a narrow waist, broad shoulders, and strong arms and legs. This shows that he can be a provider and a protector for her and their children. Also a good thing. Some people (mostly feminists) lose their minds over this. They just can't stand the idea that looks might count for something. They also can't seem to understand the fact that their outrage is of no importance to nature. So they continue their endless and losing battle to push woman (and it's almost always women. The fems don't much care if men are made to feel bad) such as Tess Holliday, Ashley Graham, and others on a very unwilling audience, as examples of "real" women who are normal and beautiful. The idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is no longer acceptable. The warriors of the body positivity movement take no prisoners. You are not allowed to have your own opinion as to what is, or is not attractive. You MUST whole heartedly agree that they ARE beautiful. Or else.
The "or else" comes in the form of constant bombardment. Television, movies, magazines and the internet have all jumped on the BP bandwagon. Even Sports Illustrated couldn't help themselves and put a plus-sized model on the cover of their yearly swimsuit issue. That's right. A woman who is in arguably bad physical shape was on the cover of a sports magazine in a bikini. All for the purpose of appeasing the BP Gestapo. After all, a magazine that glorifies the ideal female form would be at the top of their target list. They already went after fitness and beauty companies like Protein World with horrifying results (can you say bomb threat). So SI played it off like they loved it. I'm sure all the men who looked forward to that issue were just jumping for joy with excitement too, huh? I doubt it. The truth is that SI published three different covers, the first time they've ever done that by the way, and the one with the thin model was the best liked. I for one think that SI knew the cover wasn't going to be a big seller, so they hedged their bets with a traditional model as well. Look, the media can do whatever they want too. But it would seem that the BP devotees don't appreciate the hypocrisy of pushing their preferences while simultaneously raging against others rights to do the same.
Possibly the most double talking they do, though, has to do with child obesity vs. body positivity. On the one hand, we have women who are morbidly obese taking photos of themselves in all states of undress and putting them on the internet tosee be objected too. On the other hand, American school children are having their lunches whittled down to almost nothing and being sent home with report cards on their body mass index. They are being told (and punished) that they are too fat, all while also being told that there is nothing wrong with being fat and that self-acceptance is all that's important. Is it any wonder that children today seem more confused and depressed than ever before? The mixed messages they get on almost every topic are enough to spin the head of even the most well-adjusted adults, much less impressionable children.
I will end by saying that this is not about claiming that being fat makes you a bad person. I confess that I myself need to lose a few. Even while I wrote this I had a couple donuts. But I will not blame anyone else for my doing so. I will also try hard to eat right (most of the time) and exercise. What it's really about the fact that there is a good range and a bad range as far as body fat goes. People should know their good range and try to get there. A lot (maybe even most) of people will fall short. We can't all be Sports Illustrated cover models. Okay, bad example. But telling ourselves that no matter how far we go into the bad range, that we are still doing an amazing job is just delusional. Seeing what is real is the only way to move in the right direction. And harshly judging society at large (pun) for not going along with that delusion is just plain wrong. Being mature enough to take truthful stock of where you are, and then making real changes that make you a better person. Now that's positivity. Body, mind and soul.
VOH
The "or else" comes in the form of constant bombardment. Television, movies, magazines and the internet have all jumped on the BP bandwagon. Even Sports Illustrated couldn't help themselves and put a plus-sized model on the cover of their yearly swimsuit issue. That's right. A woman who is in arguably bad physical shape was on the cover of a sports magazine in a bikini. All for the purpose of appeasing the BP Gestapo. After all, a magazine that glorifies the ideal female form would be at the top of their target list. They already went after fitness and beauty companies like Protein World with horrifying results (can you say bomb threat). So SI played it off like they loved it. I'm sure all the men who looked forward to that issue were just jumping for joy with excitement too, huh? I doubt it. The truth is that SI published three different covers, the first time they've ever done that by the way, and the one with the thin model was the best liked. I for one think that SI knew the cover wasn't going to be a big seller, so they hedged their bets with a traditional model as well. Look, the media can do whatever they want too. But it would seem that the BP devotees don't appreciate the hypocrisy of pushing their preferences while simultaneously raging against others rights to do the same.
Possibly the most double talking they do, though, has to do with child obesity vs. body positivity. On the one hand, we have women who are morbidly obese taking photos of themselves in all states of undress and putting them on the internet to
I will end by saying that this is not about claiming that being fat makes you a bad person. I confess that I myself need to lose a few. Even while I wrote this I had a couple donuts. But I will not blame anyone else for my doing so. I will also try hard to eat right (most of the time) and exercise. What it's really about the fact that there is a good range and a bad range as far as body fat goes. People should know their good range and try to get there. A lot (maybe even most) of people will fall short. We can't all be Sports Illustrated cover models. Okay, bad example. But telling ourselves that no matter how far we go into the bad range, that we are still doing an amazing job is just delusional. Seeing what is real is the only way to move in the right direction. And harshly judging society at large (pun) for not going along with that delusion is just plain wrong. Being mature enough to take truthful stock of where you are, and then making real changes that make you a better person. Now that's positivity. Body, mind and soul.
VOH
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