i'm fat, not stupid.

so, i read this on fattypatties

i'll quote the article, but it's worth going to it on pattie's site 'cause she has a well thought out response that she sent in that makes for good reading.

anyway, here's the article that she posted, which is horribly offensive (i was going to say as a fat chick i'm offended, but actually, i think i'd be offended even if i wasn't fat). i'm fat, not stupid, i can make my own food choices. and really, sometimes my blood sugar dumps which is not only uncomfortable, it's also unsafe, can you imagine if i had to send 'thin' people to get my food 'cause they wouldn't serve me. good god!

anyway, here it is:

From Medscape General Medicine™Webcast Video Editorials

How to Prevent the Obese From Becoming "Obeser" -- Stop Eating, Posted 12/17/2004

Ho! Ho! Ho! Here we are in the holiday season right between those 2 great American days of gluttony. What is Scrooge's holiday greeting this year? It is about overeating, of course. How can we stop the obese from becoming more obese? Pretty simple. Stop feeding them. Think about the other common self-destructive human behaviors. On a commercial airplane, in a saloon, or at a professional sports event, if the customer is deemed to be drunk, the keepers of the booze key will lock the cabinet. If a person drives a car at a dangerous speed, the driver is subject to substantial penalties. For young persons known to be at high risk for early chemical addictions, society tries to prevent exposure to the addicting drugs. Overeating with underexercising is now killing more Americans than anything else except tobacco addiction. Yet, an obese person enters an eating joint, or a supermarket, and buys and eats any and everything he or she wants, and nobody seems to care. Does that make any sense to you? Meanwhile, Big Science strives to understand why people get fat; Big Genetics searches for the obesity gene so that stem cells could correct the flaw; Big Surgery lines up the morbidly obese to shunt their stomachs; Big Pharma seeks the next weight-loss pill that will help more people than it kills; Big Nutrition hawks the newest sure-thing, weight-loss diet; Big Fast Food pushes "healthy food" lines right next to their billion dollar unhealthy food lines; Big Soda and Big School Boards share the profit from drowning kids with calories from vending machines; and Big Exercise pushes group rates for aerobics class. Money made by so many special interests. All this while the simple answer is to stop eating; stop feeding the obese until they are no longer obese. Of course, that may be hard to do, and who makes any money that way? Fat chance for this crazy idea to go anywhere. That's my opinion. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, Editor of MedGenMed. Happy Holidays!

Readers are encouraged to respond for the editor's eye only or for consideration for publication via email: glundberg@webmd.net.

George D. Lundberg, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Medscape General Medicine Disclosure: George D. Lundberg, MD, is an employee of WebMD

so, yeah. um. i'm a fat chick. but i still do actually need food to sustain life, it's not just some addiction i'm trying to shake and if i could only go off the damn stuff cold turkey (no pun intended) then i'd be fine, no, it's actually one of the components essencial for life, i'm no doctor, but i'm pretty sure that if you stop eating it's pretty bad for you.