Why is it immoral to be obese?

The obese who read and post in |Big Fat Blog| (!!??!?, yes I know!) seem unable to understand why so many of us consider it immoral to be obese.
To help them understand, we list some of the reasons:

'Ethical/spiritual'-type reasons:

1. In a world where so many suffer from hunger, it is immoral overindulge.
2. In a word with so much suffering from diseases like cancer, it is immoral to intentionally destroy one's health.
3. While it may not be immoral to kill animals in order to survive, it is certainly immoral to needlessly cause the slaughter of animals simply to allow for one's overindulgences (of course this does not apply to obese vegetarians).
4. Obesity is a form of suicide.
5. Obesity is one manifestation of a lack of self-control.
   
6. Gluttony is a deadly sin (if you are a Christian).
   
7. The Bible states that we should take care of our bodies ('the body is our temple') and strive to make them to be in God's image (again, if you are a Christian).
8. Jesus was healthy and not obese, He only ate in moderation (again, if you are a Christian).
9. The obese have no sense of modesty (anymore). They wear too-tight cloths and so expose the 'shape' (or lack thereof) of their poor bodies.
10. Obesity breeds obesity (i.e. obese parents are a horrible role model for their poor children, who oftentimes will end up obese to morbidly obese themselves). Here is a |link| to a study which shows that fat also spawns fat within your own body, eeeeew.
    

Practical reasons:

1. The obese cost the healthy much money.
2. The obese take away medical resources from those who are sick due to involuntary diseases (cancer, Alzheimer, etc.). With resources we mean both doctor's time, hospital beds etc., as well as research time, effort and money. If only all the money and time spent on obesity research could be spent on cancer!
   
3. The obese causes problems for medical personnel (poor nurses have to lift 200-plus-pound-obese; no wonder so many of our medical personnel have back and knee problems).
4. The obese is usually not considerate of others and oftentimes destroys furniture, clogs toilets, and smells bad (for an example read this |poor lady's story|).
5. Due to their enormous appetites and huge bodies they (the obese) are partially responsible for global warming and increased gas consumption.
6. Many obese are bullies (especially since they became the majority and not ashamed anymore).
   

I sincerely hope that we can help the obese to become slim, healthy, and happy!

~~ Yours in a healthy body and a healthy mind, Heather. ~~~

Global warming and obesity

|Link| to scary, but not-at-all-surprising, article on how the obese are partially responsible for global warming!!

|cool graphic|

|How the obese reduce passenger vehicle fuel economy|

“Their conclusion is in the same vein as a letter published last year in The American Journal of Public Health. Its authors, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did a sort of back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much extra fuel airlines spend hauling around fatter Americans. The answer, they wrote, based on the extra 10 pounds the average American gained in the 1990’s, is 350 million gallons, which means an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide.”

obesity => global warming => death

Yours in health, Heather.

Deaths from Obesity

Deaths from Obesity: 300,000 premature deaths associated with obesity annually (CDC).

Death rate extrapolations for USA for Obesity: 300,000 per year, 25,000 per month, 5,769 per week, 821 per day, 34 per hour.

Read all about it at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/o/obesity/deaths.htm


obesity = death.

Yours in health, Heather.

Study casts doubt on 'fit but fat' theory

This 'fit but fat' theory has always been just an excuse of the lazy and self-indulgent.
Read all about it at http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/fitness_heart.html

For another example, let's have a look at nature... how many obese animals do you see?
Not many, I guess.
obesity = death.

Yours in health, Heather.

Fat Acceptance (?!)

Recently I read a lot (well, not a lot, but certainly more than I want to) about a very disturbing anti-health trend: so called "fat acceptance".
A extreme example of this anti-health trend is the so called "big fat blog". This website praises itself as: "for the obese, about the obese, by the obese". What makes this so immoral is that they do not even try to help people to lose weight, quite the opposite. They encourage obesity. I wonder if they are willing to pay for the (financial and moral) costs of the obesity pandemic.

I will write more about this later, off to the gym now!

Yours in health, Heather.