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Originally Posted by Unchained Ballad
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Exactly. My mother barely eats anything other than rather healthy "home made" salads and soups and exercises every single day and she can barely lose any weight. She's only very slightly overweight, if at all, but the fact is that she would probably have to apply a much greater deal of effort than is demandable by anyone to lose weight, and I imagine that this is the case of a lot of people who are obese. I see a lot of people who are thin and basically live off of fast food and don't exercise that openly judge "fat" people, and I find that absolutely ridiculous.
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Thin doesn't necessarily mean healthy and it is still dependent on how many calories your taking in a day. These thin people are probably only eating fast food and end up getting around 2000-2500 calories a day. The day will come where it catches up with them.
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The poverty issue was quite well pointed out as well. Processed foods are ultimately cheaper and people who have a low income tend to choose them over healthier and ultimately more expensive foods.
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See my previous post.
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Add to this the fact that a lot of people slave away all day (and not necessarily in such a way that involves physical effort) and might not have time to exercise, and you've got a quite decent explanation of why a few people are overweight. Does it make sense to judge these people? Only if you can put yourself in their shoes and say with absolute certainty that you would still eat properly and exercise often.
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Not sure what your implications are here. Healthy people have lives and jobs too, they choose to prioritize what's important in life. If you're ok with being overweight and unhealthy then it's your choice to live with. But people would do better if they stopped blaming it on slow metabolism, or being big boned. Why does everyone need an excuse in life?