"Jesus Christ was not obese."
So says Reverend Steve Reynolds who has started a fitne... er, weight loss program at his church called - ready? - Bod4God. Reynolds is a former fattie.
And here is a beautiful paragraph from a textbook.
Many people assume that every overweight person can achieve slenderness and should pursue that goal. First consider that most overweight people cannot -- for whatever reason -- become slender; only 5 percent of all people who successfully lose weight maintain their losses for at least a year. Then consider the prejudice involved in that assumption. People come with varying weight tendencies, just as they come with varying potentials for height and degrees of health, yet we do not expect tall people to shrink or healthy people to get sick in an effort to become 'normal.'"
p. 276, Understanding Nutrition, 9th ed.
And now, the CDC refuses to correct faulty statistics.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated today that packing on too many pounds accounts for 25,814 deaths a year in the United States. [Back in] January, the CDC came up with an estimate 14 times higher: 365,000 deaths.Even though they were wrong on their numbers the first time around, they are refusing to change the stats on their public service announcements as they feel it will detract from their anti-fat message. Well maybe that message isn't quite as necessary as they believe.
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