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Originally Posted by Willravel
You're lording your contempt over and ridiculing people that are voicing legitimate concerns regarding people's health. Or do you believe that the cause of helping people overcome obesity is just about ridicule?
Obesity is a "weakness" or "vulnerability" that one can help, which is the issue. Virtually anyone can help being fat. One can become unfat through hard work. Those that remain fat and complain about it or try to make excuses about it aren't healthy.
This study takes the focus away from proactive, successful options for obese people, and the article mischaracterized the study. Obesity cannot be "caught" at all. Viruses multiplying fat cells do not necessarily create more total mass. If one is leading a healthy lifestyle, their body regularly burns fat. The only way one can catch "fat" is if the virus is able to multiply fat faster than the body can burn it, and nothing in the study or the article suggested that.
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That's real cool, will, but you don't have to go further than the title of this thread to see the tone that was established and how it was acceptable to react to the topic. Most of comments made here do not fall into the category of 'legitimate.'
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