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Now, there's nothing I'd love discuss more than da' butt, but some are missing the point, even if it wasn't made very clearly. Obesity is a really serious problem in the US, and self esteem issues aside, a BMI over 30 is simply not okay. Obesity cuts across demographic lines, but if Dickerson's stats are to believed, then the problem in the black community has reached a crisis stage. Frankly, i'd rather have my feelings hurt in the short term than have my legs amputated down the road because of diabetes. I have a feeling that society as a whole is going to be facing an astronomic health care bill as a result of our sedentary life style, if the bill hasn't come due already. Time for niceties may be over.
