Quote:Am I the only one sick of this country's backwards values???
-sadie
It depends on which values you're talking about. On the one side you have the media projecting anorexic women and steroid enhanced men as ideals, which is destructive. On the other side you have the media selling the worst food imaginable to everyone, including children which is destructive also.
Being overweight, especially if it starts as a child, can have serious long term health effects just as being severely underweight can.
I'm sick of this country's values on BOTH extremes. People should value eating healthy and not shoving fat and sugar down their throats until their heart gives out or they end up with diabetes. And they should also start taking some responsibility for what their children eat as well. Shoving junk down a kids throat until they're obese is tantamount to child abuse in my opinion, but Mc Donald's says it's ok, so it is right?
Quote:I am by no means obese, but I am slightly overweight, and I am TIRED of feeling like a second class citizen because I am not skin and bones.
Are you really treated like a "2nd class citizen" or do you FEEL like a 2nd class citizen. Where I live most adults are obese, they're the norm and not 2nd class anything. No one gives an obese person a 2nd glance around here because that's "just what people look like".
