WEIGHING IN PART 2 ...

Now there's a fresh fatty book out. Fat Land by Greg Critser of L.A. Critser links the sharp rise in corn sweetener and palm oil in processed foods to the skyrocketing obesity in America. He also, FINALLY, links obesity to poverty. Well, DUH! Rich people have the time and the money to go to personal trainers and eat Greek salads in swank restaurants.

Then Critser, who's well off and lost weight thanks to Meridia, goes on the Fat People Are Gluttonous, Lazy Bums rant. It's still our fault. Alcoholics and people who smoke kill themselves, yet these behaviours are now treated as addictions. Because of the social stigma, we still don't view obesity this way.

Critser, and other profiting diet "authors", has ignored the research an Indian doctor, Nikhil Dhurandhar, did linking the marked increase in obesity in the 1980s, to a viral bug that started in poultry and worked it's way up the food chain.

Political commentator and relentless self-promoter, Bill Maher, was the first to slam Dhurandhar's research. Maher apparently thinks we should inflict second-hand smoke related illness on others and (according to Mad TV!) date 14-year-old Asian whores, BUT that fat is baaad and the obese are somehow single-handedly collapsing the American medical system ... such as it is. He especially has a problem with obese women; typical of most superficial assholes residing in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. On a minor up-note, Maher is no longer dying his hair implants red! I'm thinking, some time, somehow a fat woman did Bill WRONG and he's still smarting from it.

My point: I think obesity is a disease, overeating is an addiction and it should be treated accordingly. We don't ridicule cancer patients for being thin and sickly, why is it OK to do this to fat people? Rather than wondering whether someone obese overeats, why not ask the intelligent, scientific question: WHY?!
Is it hormonal? Is it the endocrine system? Is it hereditary?
Is it palm oil? Is it refined sugars?
Or, is it a virus?

Okay, next rant.

-- Mz M.