Overweight 'should be protected'

some fat people are openly villified because they have a visceral manifestation of the results of their 'self medication' to deal with underlying mental and emotional problems

good job that not everyones consequence of dealing with their mental and emotional machinations are not so physically obvious eh?

yup, nearly all overweight people are that because of an imbalance between calories in and calories expended but it is overly simplistic to dismiss it as all fat people being 'lazy fuckers' - there always seems to be more understanding of people going thro clinical depression than someone who is obese when the only real difference is the physical manifestation of the problem

-- and stop stirring Cras Crish you speccy boew tie wearing git :^]

Pleas believe me I'm not trying to be incendiary here , I'm sure there are people who are fat due to underlying depression or mental problems, others who have medical or gene related issues but why are people so intent on denying the existence of those who like food and think exercise is too much like hard work. I'm not saying ALL obese people are avers to exercise or eat too much but in quite a lot of cases, and I would say the majority, one of those factors is at play.

If food became scarce again, there would be less obesity.