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An alternative fashion show gives the stiff arm to all those anorexic models.
  • disability caused by obesity is a public health and economic disaster on a par in it's destructive effects with smoking, drinking or drug use and

    it's as worthy of comment as smoking, drinking and drunk driving, or drug use and is is MUCH MUCH more widespread. If you had ever had to deal with individuals disabled or limited by obesity as I have, (an experience which MANY MANY MORE people are going to have in the future than have had it so far given current trends) you would know why it gets talked about a lot.