re: The obesity epidemic

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I think my biggest objection to the obesity “epidemic” is how little scenery there is at American beaches these days. It’s awful.

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It's not just that. You now have morbidly obese people wearing clothes (or lack thereof) at the beach that should only be worn by the fittest of us all. I'm talking 230lb+ women in thongs and string bikinis.

A few years back I was only a family vacation at the beach with my kids. There was a girl in her 20's in front of us on the beach who easily weighed 250lbs (at least) in a string bikini with a thong bottom. My daughter (then 7) had never seen a thong bikini. She started giggling and asked my wife where was the rest of that lady's swimsuit?" Before my wife could answer I blurted out "Maybe her butt ate it?" My wife was furious I would say that in front of my daughter. My response was my daughter needs to know there should be some degree of "shame" associated with morbid obesity...and it had NOTHING to do with superficial beauty. It had everything to do with simply just a healthy lifestyle.

Just because "glorifying" an anorexic body type for females is harmful doesn't mean it is "good" to glorify a morbidly obese body type. BOTH can be bad.