As a child, elephants, hippos and pigs were symbols used to compare obese children with. After over 45 years of fighting this condition, I have had it with the ignorance of not only the doctors, who are not nutritionists, but the majority of people in general. I have dieted since the age of ten and have managed to keep physically busy and doing more work than the majority of the skinny people and usually on less than 500 calories a day. I have gone months on less then 200 calories a day, yet the medical doctors seem to think that I need to eat less. The nutritionist at the hospital freaks out when they are told of this situation and have told me that because of this starvation mode I have lived for for so long it has basically shut my metabolism down to nothing and that anything I do eat goes automatically to fat storage as my body thinks there is no food out there for survival.

Most my diet is home grown veggies and served raw, fruit very little meat and caffeine-to keep going. Everything that the doctors claim about the foods they deem as fattening and say that when you eat this-I interrupt them and tell them they are wrong because the things they love to list are not in my diet,or if once in a while if I do have something on their list is averages out to one no-no food item every few years. Over 90% of what they list is not even in my house, let alone the food I buy or eat. And fast food is out, as I don’t have the money for even McDonalds.

One of the doctors favorites is salt-which I have not used since 1966 and then they bitch about the amount of salt in fresh tomatoes, well the human body needs at least one teaspoon of salt a day to work correctly and I fall well below that.When the doctors have to try to blame organically home grown natural foods are all bad for the human body, it stands to reason there is not one food out there on the whole planet that is good for the human body to ingest.

These doctors need to really educate themselves as to the fact that not every fat person overeats, eats the wrong things or is not physically active enough. They need to find real answers as to why not everyone fits into their narrow and wrong view as to why this has happened. The main reason I still have this problem is brought on by the medical people who really don’t know what they are talking about.

Sorry about the rant, but I am sick and tired of seeing over weight humans compared to another species of animal that is naturally large and other than cats and dogs that people have as pets who tend to become obese, you really don’t see other animals displaying signs of obesity unless they have had some intervention by humans, like steriods and growth hormones.

jjbaulikki,

That’s because you have a brain. Isn’t life odd with one? lol

... Or, it could teach fat kids that hey!, fat people can have fun in water too, damn it! I see a future in England where terms like “Orca fat” and “You’re as big as a whale!” are terms of endearment and pure awe.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Truth Dig has truly cheered my dark, evil heart today! oh man….

Well, as Jack Benny used to say, really slowly,
perhaps they could give the kids clubs…and the kids could practice chasing seal cubs who aren’t afraid of humans, as hunting is done in Canada.  Stop picking on fat kids.  Take the junk food out of schools, including commercial material used as “free literature/handouts”, tv ads for soda and packaged foods that are unhealthy, etc.

It’s often “blame the victim”.  And, the various local governments want to close or tax fast food restaurants which are in poor neighborhoods, so once again the poor get punished for being poor, and for not having regular priced, fresh veggies/fruit in their local stores…and the high cost of organic veggies make it impossible for the poor to buy.

So why not give poor people real money for food?  Along with removing the junk in schools.  What’s for school lunches these days?