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Its great to educate people about healthy lifestyles. Exercise, eat fresh foods, floss your damn teeth, drink more water, blah blah blah. Its fine to occassionaly point out that yo-yo diets and being either extremely over OR under weight can lean to serious health problems.
But I have absolutely had it with the fact that anytime a non-skeletal woman (not man!) is pictured in the media people start harping on how her obesity will lead to health problems which will simply drain our society of its resources. I hate that this argument often seems to amount to no more than the writer/activist's revulsion at the sight of a woman's body which is anything other than "perfect", that is very thin with large breasts (Playmates) or extremely underweight (super models).
Can a woman not be a healthy weight? The kid who won Amer. Idol and the model, Buffy, are simply NOT obese. Nor do they even look unhealthy in my opinion. My sister is the same size as the Amer Idol kid - she is a former Cheerleading National's champion and an avid jogger and mountain biker. I have a friend with a body (but not diet) similar to Buffy's. This girl participates in charity marathons. Both women eat well and are in amazing shape.
Both of these girls struggled for years to be comfortable with their bodies. Not until they were in their late 20's did they accept that no matter what diet/exercise program they tried, they would just be larger than the girls in magazines. They also realized that in the real world many men and women love their healthy, curvy bodies (esp. the girl with the ass!)
And WTF? Its better for women to go under the knife and anesthesia in order to get fake breasts than to accept their naturally large asses?!? This is the healthy alternative?
Shame on you and Salon
