“You NEVER KNOW why a person appears unusually heavy.
There are certainly exceptions, but if you spend any time in a Walmart, start looking at what is in the carts of gravitationally-challenged people. It will answer a lot of questions.”
Sure, you can see people buying a lot of “junk food.”
Maybe the guy who sits at work all day but still eats three squares is “morbidly obese.” Is he less moral than my niece, who eats and then barfs? She is nice and thin.
Or my acquaintance, who eats lots of junk food, publicly and unashamedly, but is still thin for some reason.
You’d look at my niece or my acquaintance and think, hey, they are healthy, stable, normal, self-controlled people. But you would be wrong.
You’d look at the morbidly obese guy and say, “what a pig.” But maybe he’s not really a pig.
Except that there are all the holier than thou’s who completely blame being *fat* on eating habits.
I read something somewhere that proposed that some overweight people are actually in better condition than thin people because they know they are overweight and work at doing what they can about it by eating right and exercising, thus making them more fit than the skinny person who lives on junk food and doesn’t do anything.
I have two daughters. One is skinny as can be, can eat anything she wants, and gets a reasonable amount of exercise because she knows it’s important. Her sister is a good 30 pounds heavier, eats the same, runs track, and has trouble keeping weight off. They each take after a different side of the family in physique and apparently metabolism.
Blaming it strictly on eating habits is an easy answer.