Comments on: Stop Eating! You’re Making Me Hot!

By: Tori

Tori — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:06:23 +0000

It really irritates me that people who are supposed to be so smart could be so stupid. That is very discriminating remarks regarding “obese” people. We live in a society where people judge everyone. Who says what obesity is? A bunch of skinny people who don’t like themselves so there for they can’t like anyone else either? I am no expert but, I believe that we shouldn’t blame global warming on fat people. Maybe we should stop cutting down the trees which is the air we breath and stop building subdivisions every 10 feet. Maybe we should go back to living the way that they did in the old days when they didn’t have electricity. Maybe we should all work together and stop picking on people who can’t help what they are because it’s the way God made them. That’s okay because in the end there will be only one person that can judge us and He won’t care if we are fat, skinny, black, white, orange, purple, or whatever.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:34:57 +0000

Dang, wish I’d thought up your title for my post…

Fascinating topic whether you agree with the idea or not…

Healthbolt’s been doing some posting about this too and tomorrow we have FatMan Unleashed putting in his two cents on the discussion…

My thinking – Skinny or Fat, we all contribute…how much so is an individual not a weight thing.

By: R Tumbo

R Tumbo — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:05:20 +0000

Does the word obesity have a synonym?

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:39:26 +0000

Alicia, so agreed!

I really liked Ms. Mestel’s example of her super fit friend who biked 100+ miles every evening and the amount of calories he ingested – how is that any different?

There are so many reasons to maintain a healthy weight, and just as many reasons to try to keep the world around you a little healthier – I really don’t see how blame or guilt fit into a healthy approach to either topic.

And as for your last line, “what….to do in order to keep themselves AND the earth healthy”

Are you seeing a new tagline for Daily Tomorrow? I am!

Thanks for your comments!

By: Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader

Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:21:27 +0000

It kind of rubs me the wrong way to hear/think/say that obese people are contributing significantly to global warming. For me to think “you’re overweight and causing problems for the earth” just feels wrong to me.

Of course, I’m not a scientist, I haven’t done all the research or whatever, so what do I know.

I think the real issue we should all be thinking about should be for people to do what they need to do in order to keep themselves AND the earth healthy.