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Originally Posted by KirStang
2/3rds (66%) of the adults in the U.S. are overweight, and approximately 34 percent of the population is obese. Though I don't like the thought of people having low self esteem due to body images, I also don't like the idea of promoting being over-weight as normal.
What I'm driving at here is, that perhaps we should focus on the health problems associated with being overweight, as opposed to promoting the notion that being on the heavy side is ideal. Obesity has been on a steady upward incline nationwide since the 1980's, so by saying, "it's ok" we might actually be hurting the effort to thin out and reduce weight problems in the United States.
Just my 2 cents on Dove's campaign
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In the late 1990's, people who never worried about being fat all of a sudden woke up obese thanks to new health standards. I'm a 130 lb., 5' 5" female, and if I use the right criteria, I'm pushing hard against obesity. (I'm hour-glass shaped and most women are not. Like REALLY hour-glassy...)
Obviously, there are very few 500 lb. people who are healthy; no denying. However, if a woman is 250 or 300 lbs., is healthy, mobile, exercising, why do we feel the need to change her?
Besides, more people become fat as a result of extreme dieting and destroying their metabolisms. I'm definately someone who went through that as someone who had anorexia as a teenager. After hitting my low weight in the eighties, I almost ballooned up to 160 when I just started eating normally. It took my metabolism FIVE YEARS to settle back, after five years of abuse, about two of those being really extreme. I can't imagine what ten years of severe dieting would do to a body. I think if that were the case, I'd easily weigh 300 lbs. by the time I was 25.
Maybe if someone had said to me, "Hey, your ass is fat, but you're still an attractive, nice, worthy human being, I'd weigh 115 or so, and I wouldn't have these god-awful stretch marks from doubling my weight in a matter of a couple years. Maybe if we recognized there's more than one type of beauty in the world, life would be better for everyone.