Obesity Exposed! How Fat Can America Get?

I just went down to the AMC Van Ness. Bring It On. Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku. PG-13. High school cheerleader comedy. Cute. Funny. I am a big fan of both Dunst and Dushku. Very special, very different types. Some fun cheers. Well paced. A couple of genuinely funny gags.

Fat girl sat one seat away from me. Unveiled her hot dog, loaded with catsup, mustard and relish as the film started. Unveiled her second hot dog 4 minutes later. Hot dog relish stench disappeared approximately 8 minutes after that.

My gosh but Eliza and Kirsten had really cute little bodies (they're both over 18). They must have been on special diets, hired trainers, et al. And then I would hear the girl next to me shift position. And then I'd get confused.

New report is out. More and more fat people and teens. More and more people at risk for diabetes. Fat people groups declare false reports! False information! As they wolf down a stack of pancakes. And a pound of bacon. As a midday snack.

Why is it that when an alcoholic drinks too much, we "intervene," we tell him he's diseased and awful; but when a person has an addiction to food, and gets fat and fatter, we ignore it? "Oh, you're not so fat," we say. "Oh you look good in that." "Hey, have you lost a little weight?" is like "Hey, did you have 3 martinis this afternoon instead of 7?"

Today I was walking behind a thin man and a very fat woman. She was wearing stretch pants (of course) and a gigantic tshirt. She was clutching a greasy McDonald's bag in her left hand, and in her right she had a gigantic Icee beverage. She kept her lips to the straw, except when she had to take breaks from keeping her arm up.

She could not walk. She moved like a monster does on TV. Left side of body inches forward, right side of body inches forward, etc.

Do you really want to do that with your life? I mean, if you are obese, that's what you are doing with your life. Everything else comes second, or third. You are a fat person. You are not looked at sexually. No one desires you. You take so much longer to walk a block than a thin person. And you're out of breath? Next thing you know you're taking the bus two blocks. And you're taking up two seats.

The saddest thing of course is a fat child. A fat teenager. The parents let this happen. Just like the German people let the Holocaust happen. A fat teenager.

Fat people declarations:

"Fat is healthy!"

"Thin is unhealthy!"

"Magazines and models are evil drug addicts!"

The truth on fat people: Salon EXPOSE! "It's one of the great American paradoxes. The more we snatch up diet books, ab busters and fen-phen, the fatter we get. Approximately one-third of adult Americans are overweight. Fatness -- more politely known as obesity -- results in hundreds of thousands of deaths each year from heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer." An article by Lori Leibovich Love yourself and learn how to help yourself. Don't just finally be resigned to being fat and then try to be happy with it. Help yourself at Obesity.com.