[starfish923]

“Especially some people from Asian countries would walk right up to you on the beach, poke you in the belly and make some rude joke.” What a marvellous image: a crowd of lean little Chinese people gathered around an enormous American woman, poking and prodding her delightedly while she lies there in the Hawaiian sand, huffing and puffing with a self-righteous indignation quite lost on them.

A billion lean little Chinese people. Given enough money they WILL balloon up. They have just as much self-control as any one else.

The American fatso must have looked like a beached whale. Harharhar. And she couldn't whine, cry and complain to ANYONE. All she could do was go have another 5000-calorie meal to fill the vacuum in her soul.

[onja]

I know quite a few well off Asians and they're all lean. Much more so than almost everyone else around them.

[Republican in CA]

"All she could do was go have another 5000-calorie meal to fill the vacuum in her soul."

Actually, it's the opposite. Two obese people that I have known ate 1000 calories a day and 1400 calories a day respectively, just to keep from putting on more weight.

Their metabolisms were way down from a lifetime of dieting. I think I also remember a study about that, where heavier people were actually eating less than thin people.

Some bodies are just better are storing fat than others. Additionally, some people are more sensitive to carbohydrates and other people have naturally slower metabolisms.

The bottom line is that the sedentary, forced to drive everywhere lifestyle and high fat/high carb diet makes 60% of adult Americans obese. And a lot of people don't have the luxury and the time to cook everything from scratch and work out enough to lose weight.

[Hoodlum91]

That's OK, we can make fun of all the little Chinese people that have hunched backs from osteoporosis.