[InDubioProRubio]

We are not defending obesity, we are advocating for a balanced view, while you are busy with your little crusade.

My suggestion is to look at old black/white tribal photos of natives. They do not fullfill your beauty standards, but they lived normal sustenance lifes. And yes, the woman and men have bellies. Not huge ones, but noticeable ones. Same thing in the animal kingdom. The dominant monkey in a harem, besides the normal hormonal dominance meat-mountain bloat, usually has a belly. Our beauty standard is met by animals in distress, being pushed into marginal territories. Healthy is, somewhere in the middle, not on either side of the isles of madness.

[bequanna]

If you are overweight, you need to take responsibility and change your lifestyle.

Of course, everyone instinctively knows this even if they want to use mental gymnastics to explain why it is OK. Alcoholics, drug addicts, etc are defensive too and have many excuses at the ready for why their behavior is acceptable.

In the end, however, reality will hit hard and five dollar words aren’t going to save the obese and those with unhealthy lifestyles from sickness and early death.