If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.
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There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.
The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.
You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.
I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.
Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.
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