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To: Alia; laney
It's not always laziness, laney.

Some of the busiest women I know are "weighty" and simply because their plates are so overfull with duties and responsibilities that they are eating on the fly; a hunk of huge carb being more immediately satisfying than a bowl of vegetables or salad.

Sorry - that's still lazy. Healthy eating takes thinking ahead, prioritizing and planning. These mental efforts are no different than physical exercise. Anyone can do them, most chose not to.

7 posted on 10/12/2005 5:11:01 AM PDT by meowmeow (Meow! Meow!)
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To: meowmeow
Hold on.. I fully agree with you on this, in fact, initially wrote nearly identical in my post; decided to limit my post, so deleted:

Healthy eating takes thinking ahead, prioritizing and planning. These mental efforts are no different than physical exercise. Anyone can do them, most chose not to.

Bingo. I summed by writing that women ARE making individual choices; and that this book "attributing female "fatness" to male oppression or somesuch" is idiocy.

The theory is, I guess... that women are "forced" to not plan ahead and because of "gender inequality". Meaning? Women are taking primary care of children. Lots of women, thin women who plan ahead and exercise, also have children. So the author's premise is a "globalization" of a feminist mantra which is borne out by facts not in evidence.

10 posted on 10/12/2005 5:31:31 AM PDT by Alia
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To: meowmeow

Agree with ya here! It takes consertive effort to eat right excercise and take care of yourself overall.

It takes NO EFFORT to be fat and lazy....


18 posted on 10/12/2005 7:54:42 AM PDT by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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