Is big beautiful?
Recent research reveals that the proportion of Britons who are obese has doubled in the last decade from 11% in 1999 to 23% this year.
So we sent Christopher Biggins out to ask "is it OK to be fat?"
Comedian Ricky Grover said to Christopher that "size discrimination should not stop people from achieving their dreams and ambitions. We need to accept fat people."
Cardiff journalist Hannah Jones said: "People in this country are fat phobic but I am proud to be fat. I am fed up with people staring at me when I eat a pasty - people eat pasties - Get over it."
But the experts at the NHS say: "Obesity is fast becoming one of the developed world's most serious health problems. Being obese can take up to nine years off your life and make you far more susceptible to diabetes, heart disease, stroke and many other conditions."
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has anyone else noticed that petrol is now well over the £1 mark again and nothing seems to have been said.
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Well there isn't anything wrong with big people in my opinion because celebreties are the WRONG role models especially when people want to be size 0 . You only get one shot at life so be yourself and enjoy it while you can !
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fIf fatness is considered an illness, why is it not treated as such by people in the media.
Would they say the same thing to someone who has, god-forbid, a cancer or an STD.
James corden and Beth Ditto are being alienated by the NHS because they are easy targets. People have to realise that obese people are poeple none the same and need to be treated as such.
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I am very angry.
In your interview about being fat, your medical advisor who sat next to Peter Capaldi went straight from talking about a person being fat to a person being obese. Can you please state for the record that a fat person is not an obese person, as there are many different levels and criteria which lead to someone being diagnosed (and stigmatised) as obese. Namely the individual persons BMI (Body Mass Index).
It is possible for a person to be fat and not obese, and yet perfectly healthy.
Thank you.
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big is not ebaitiful. i am 27 and weigh 166kg (the most in my life so far). I love fashion, I am a handsome man, but I have limited my daily life and my chances. I am tired of this. My BMI is 48. I battle at work. I am addicted to Coca Cola - yes Coca Cola is an addiction. Today I am two weeks clean of coca cola. I dont drink alcohoal or smoke, but coca cola and terrible food. I love fashion and clothes, and no decent label makes sizes to fit me. before the violins start playing, I dont want sympathy, after all it's my fault. What does upset me though, is that I have actually asked my local GP for help, since last year. Gastric band or just help with diet, all he has said is to try myself and keep coming abck. with no diet or nutrition or even tablet help. this has been most discouraging. For the now I am trying my own thing, and hope I will make it. As said 2 weeks coca cola and anything similar free. But in short fat is NOT beautiful. And this comes from a fat man!
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The specialist said on the show that James Corden and Beth Ditto are bad role models as they are overweight. I believe that celebrities such as Posh Spice who are obviously underweight and are also at risk of damaging their health are bad role models but this is never mentioned, and instead they are flaunted over magazine covers.
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ok has anyone considered that some people cant loose wieght that easily, due to inllness etc ( underactive thyroid etc)
Skinnt celebs are pushing teenage girls into anorexia etc, which is more worrying than an over weight kid. Id rather have a plump kid or partner than a bag of bones!
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the last comment should say illness and skinny sorry for the typos!!
oh and the spelling mistake!
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Big is definately beautiful! I am 28 and a big beautiful woman and always have been. My size does not hurt anyone and people should just get over the whole size issue! I am very happy and enjoy life and everyone should do the same and stop worrying about if that crisp is going to make you fat. Live your life as you want it I say as long as you are not hurting anyone.
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Big can be beautiful..it's the personality that counts..but when you are a "normal" size and you are on a bus,train or aeroplane do you really want your space invaded by the fat person sitting next to you no matter how "beautiful they are?
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There is so much pressure on young people like myself to look skinny, im not the thinnest person in the world but im also not obease. Everyone has a obbesssion with being skinny when i think it look more unhealthy than being fat. I would love to see more plumper people in the fashion mags and TV's so young girls like me know we dont need to be size zero to look good, becuase we dont.
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people who are overweight are VERY aware of the health issues they face - it is pushed at them continually in newspapers magazines and health programmes. To have larger sized people on tv shows real people - the average size in this country for women is 16+ obese to a lot of skinnies!
Also since when has obesity been a disease??
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Its all well and good the pretty slim blonde sat on the sofa telling us 'obese' people we have a disease but what support do these experts or doctors offer?
None! if it is a disease as descibed then why not offer NHS advice and treatment for free.......Yeah right!
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Im 27 and was always the bigger of my friends (after gaining weight from the pill) and have been confirmed obese! I am size 18 and i ride 2 miles a day and go to the gym 3/4 times a week where i run and do intense abs workouts.
its a shame as society drums into you that you should be thin thin thin, even though i am curvy, i have a firm figure due to my exercise and i think this is the key.
being fit concious i think is the key as i can out run many of my friends who are sizes below me.
keeping your heart and joints healthy is the most important part and CAN be done when your a larger person.
bigger people can be fit, as people think that bigger peoeple are lazy and have no respect for their bodies.
Nikki lawson
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Overweight children suffer bullying throughout their lives. While accepting that we should be educated in matters of sensible diet and exercise, it is insensitive and cruel in the extreme for some slender blonde on The One Show to describe them as "diseased". Why do we need to stigmatise people because of their age, race or appearance?
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I am fat and I can tell you no one should be proud of it. I am also a diebetic and as a completee result of me eating and drinking too much and sitting down all day at work. People who are fat have to face up to the fact we are fat because its our fault and yes it is an ilness and the NHS have the cure. Its not a secret pill or some kind of magic operation like gastric bypass no thats the cowards way out. The cure is to eat less and healthy, no fatty crisps, Mc Donalds or choclate and cut out alcohol and most importent EXERSISE. I have done this and in 4 months I have lost 1 1/2 stone and have not felt this fit or had my diebeties so under control for ages. If you dont change and lose weight YOU WILL BECOME DIEBETIC and that can lead to blindess, loss of limbs and even DEATH>
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I was put on a diet at the age of 9 even though I was a very active child. playing netball, rounders and swimming competitively. I also ate sensible home cooked meals, we only ever had pudding on a Sunday, had fruit daily and if there was any spare money (often there wasn't) we were allowed 1 pack of sweets per week (this is over 40 years ago)
Being singled out at such an early age has left me with some horrendous food fobias that I cannot overcome. I sometime go days without eating and then will eat for a few days and then go without again. If I am out at a restaurant one word or look out of place from anyone will find me going to the toilets to throw up.
If I had been left alone I am sure that my weight would have levelled out at an acceptable level. It does not help that I am only 5ft tall either.
I think, from my experience that it is dangerous for children to be put on diets. Sensible eating is the only way forward.
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I can't believe the patronizing stupidity of the dietitian, or your giving her so much prime time on a channel I pay for (and can't not): someday she'll meet the reality that many experience that knowing something doesn't always equate with compliance, and not conforming to the norm is not appropriate to judge morally. I'm fat. People are anorexic. I'm an University Lecturer at Oxford and a Fellow of a college, some friends work in MacDonald's or even are in prison - so what? You know when 'the obese' as a 'class' are dealt with and publicly diminished, each person's self-image takes a hit. I have nothing against patronizing dietitian bimboes, just don't want them offending me and diminishing my humanity on the TV. She should be censured because size-ism is as real and pernicious as sexism, racism, agism. She is right about demands on the health service, if the NHS doesn't want to support fat people, we should be exempt from NI which pays for it!
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NO- big is NOT beautiful!! I have been big ALL my life & I am now watching my 9 year old daughter struggling with the same weight problems - it's horrible & not beautiful! We constantly struggle to each healthy & do exercise BUT they weight does NOT come off easily - it's SLOW & painful to be going through! There is NO difference beween being FAT & OBESE - all that differs is the difference between your BMI- fat is the lower end of the BMI scale whilst obese is a little fatter.... stop pussy fotting around & thinking FAT is not OBESE - they are 1 & the same thing!
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can't believe some of the comments, obesity is a life style choice....what a load of pants....Role models are just that role models they are either positive or negative not fat or thin. No one seems to care that while thay are being quite frankly abusive that there is a human being in front of them and that is what is truly important. If it's okay to have a go about someones weight why not their hair colour or poor eyesight... Arrggghhhhh.......
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I have been obese all my life and hate it. When i got to my heaviest of 25 stone last year i knew that something had to be done. I have recently been lucky enough to have a gastric band fitted and over the past year have lost 5 stone. Still, I am shocked at the contradictions of the guests today on the one show. While the dietician is talking about obesity being a disease, which i agree with whole heartedly, the other guests are saying that the answer to the obesity problem, is education and that apparently we dont realise that eating over and above what we need will simply add to the problem. Well I'm sorry but of course we know this - we may be fat but we are not stupid! What we need is help to stop eating the volumes and sorts of foods that we cannot seem to stay away from, not the patronising attitude of people who think that we eat simply because we dont realise that it will increase our weight! Since loosing 5 stone I undoubtedly feel 100 times better and have already noticed a marked improvement on my health. I no longer need Physiotherapy for my back, my knees are not painful any more i do not get short of breath from simply walking up the stairs. But I also think that doctors need to look at the reasons behind obesity and stop using surgery as the answer, because even thjough i have had a gasteric band i would not recommend it to anyone. I have had more of a struggle since having the band, mainly with depression at the physicalities of not being able to eat in volumes, for the first time in my life and i believe that a simpler approach such as cognative therapy, would have been far more effective and just as effective.
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I felt so depressed about being big I paid for a private bypass operation, I was 17stn and 5ft 2, Since the operation I have encountered a number of problems, one being a stricture at the astomosis where my new stomach has been joined to my bowel. This has resulted in me loosing 4 and a half stone since the operation 9 weeks ago, I can hardly eat or drink anything and have never been so miserable in my life. HUGE MISTAKE, I am going for a second stretch tommorow, but I feel like I don't have a life as I don't have the energy to do anything, sometimes i can't even drive my son to school because of the overwhelming nausea. Heres hoping they sort it tommorow or I don't know what I will do
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My mum and I both think that celebs. Should be allowed to be themselves large or small!
Just because some celebs. are big doesnt mean that they are forcing children to become fat. Just think of all of the models and all of the stick thin celebs. They are not prosecuted for causing young children to diet and become thin!
Being large is no big thing. Its what is inside that counts.
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Its not about is it ok it's life or death. My brother aged 36 died 7 years ago today. He was big and I was 5 stone heavier than I am now. There's a direct link between cancer and obesity. Ignore it at your peril it's not all about just another pastie!!!! I miss him millions
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I think it's wrong to objectify people because they are fat, yes the number of overweight people has increased but yo-yo dieting, cheap junk food and pressure to lose weight generated by the media and celebrity image makes it so much harder for people to what is a normal weight. Many celebrities are either too thin or too fat so the image of what is normal is distorted, and the easy availability of junk food doesn't make it any easier to get a balanced diet.
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I think it's wrong to objectify people because they are fat, yes the number of overweight people has increased but yo-yo dieting, cheap junk food and pressure to lose weight generated by the media and celebrity image makes it so much harder for people to what is a normal weight. Many celebrities are either too thin or too fat so the image of what is normal is distorted, and the easy availability of junk food doesn't make it any easier to get a balanced diet.
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Its also life or death when someone becomes super thin. But no one really worries about that as most people see that as normal, as models are seen to be tiny!
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Thank you so much Peter Capaldi for emphasising that weight has no bearing on talent and ability. Because of my BMI I am considered morbidly obese. I am now 60een - yes! SIXTYEEN - and very active: cycling, on my feet cooking and baking, making jams, wine, about to start swimming again. I don't walk unless I really have to as I have a form of spina bifida and walking really hurts, but I do play badminton once a week.
BMI is really one great big current nonsense - the whole of the British Lions team are obese according to BMI but I would back every one of them against a 25 year old sedentary office worker. Exercise is the key - I don't do it to lose weight, but because I enjoy it.
My husband too is considered morbidly obese - in his mid 50s he cycles around 150 miles a week purely for pleasure, does a lot of gardening, and again I would back him against anyone except the professional cyclists.
We grow our own fruit and vegetables, buy our meat from our local butcher who slaughters the animals on site (the family have been in business for over 60 years now - people come 30 miles or more because the meat is so good). I can guarantee the meat is good. All meals are cooked from scratch because ready meals are just not good for you, despite the supermarket's trademark to that effect.
I was offended at being told I have a disease - the disease of obesity. The only diseases rampant in this country are the disease of mockery against larger/heavier people by the media, and the disease of prejudice by a large majority of the population, although the phrase pot-kettle-black comes to mind.
As for the person who wrote above - I wouldn't want to sit next to them on the train or bus in case such prejudice is catching against the attitude of arrogant superiority should rub off. I prefer to be tolerant of everyone on their merits. If that person had made such a general comment about race, religion, gender, age etc. it would be against the law. So it's left to us larger people to shoulder the whole of the derision of intolerance.
Please think again before deciding about a person just because of their size.
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Mother Teresa said " If you judge people, you have no time to love them." It is not about big or small. People need to be accepted and loved. Sometimes that love will lead to concern about health if the loved one is unhealthily fat or skinny.
I have always been judged as being too thin, as if I do it on purpose to make others feel bad. Others are judged as being too fat. It seems only the utterly unremarkable are left alone. But the problem is how easily we get caught up in standardizing beauty by size.
Let us stop shouting out to ban size 0 models and replace them with larger sizes. Let us start including all forms of beauty and all sizes. Why must the one always be stacked against the other?
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I think it is a shame to generalise obesity, there is slightly over weight then there is seriously obese, i do not think it is alright to be over weight by too much as ther is ovbious health risks. I do not think that celebrities should make it alright to be over weight in the same way that models make it okay to be too skinny. People need to be aware that there are risks in being too heavy especially as it is all relative to your height and natural body shape any way. People need to be aware of the difference of slightly over weight and at risk because you are too heavy. But others need to be aware that it is not easy to lose weight all the time as I still struggle to lose some pregnancy weight and that not evefryone who is fat/obese is happy with there lot.
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Please give both sides of the weight story. Skinny women and men in public roles are poor role models to the young as there is a growing number of young people who become seriously ill from anorexia and bulimia. This does not even touch on the large number of people who develop a poor self image due to their comparison to the "successful' thin people. The psychological damage can be life long and most damaging. Judy Alexander
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Your dietician clearly stated that being obese is a disease. If the medical profession truly believe that, why is there not more help and support for people who are obese. I am 56yrs of age and have had a weight problem all my life. If I had saved all the money I have spent during my life on slimming club memberships and slimming products, I am sure I would have a few thousand in the bank balance. I have never been offered help to lose weight by any GP that I have had. I have been successful on occasions and lost weight, but it always goes back on. I beleive it is definately a state of mind, and think that far more support should be given to those of us who would truly like to beat and control this (disease). Alcoholics can get help when they want to beat their addiction, as can smokers, but there is no support on the same level for those of us who have weight problems and I believe it should be given the same priority as smoking and any other addiction. I am not ashamed of being fat/obese but that does not mean that I would'nt like to do something about it, which I have struggled to do all my life. It would be good to know there was a serious support system in place for people like myself that was not going to cost us a fortune but was provided by our NHS. No one could deny it would be money well spent.
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in response to honestangiew, i completely agree with everything that you have said. While smokers and alcoholics are offered help to kick the habit, we "eaters" have to manage to simply cut down on the very substance that we are "addicted" to.
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Celebreties are not role models! The girls and boys, women and men in our armed forces, hospitals, schools, police and so on are the role models. Our MP's were supposed to be, but they forgot.
I only consider a celebrity as being a role model if they are in a role that can be viewed as moraly upright or examplifiable. Just being a shape is hardly a role! I am sure the majority of celebs would prefer to be judged on their talents and merits rather than their physical attributes.
Doesn't Christine want to be judged not for her looks, but for her presenting ability? Does not the blonde lady who spoke about obesity want to be heard for what she had to say, rather than for the size body she inhabits when she speaks? She spoke some hard truths. We can take what she said without picking it apart because she happens to be a size 8.
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Actually, it is interesting that it is women for the most part who are being labeled as fat or skinny. If Christine were to get a belly, there would be many comments, and she would be made to feel terrible, but Adrian is allowed to have his small paunch. The woman who spoke was chastized for being skinny, but the slender man who spoke was not.
We simply should stop getting fat/skinny mixed up with female beauty. They are utterly irrelevant to beauty.
The question "is big beautiful?" is a flawed question and can never be answered. It is not the big that can be beautiful it is the person.
Let us stop name calling one another fatty and skinny. Come on other women, we can all be beautiful! We can't all be healthy, and there are zillions of health problems, but we can all be lovely and treat one another as such.
One day, I said to a friend she was beautiful, and she asked me why, and I answered that she was a woman and that made her beautiful. I believe that. Womanhood, females of all ages, we are all beautiful. It is inherent.
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I do not agree that being fat is a disease, as defined in the dictionary a disease is an illness or disorder of health. I am not fat but slightly overweight, I am not ill or have a disorder of health. being fat is genetically inherited from your parents.I have had to watch what I eat since I was in my early teens, I am now 51. Everybody is different, its all about your metabolic rate, some people burn their fat quicker than others, how many times have you heard someone say "if I ate what you ate I would be as big as a house", which just proves my point.
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A lot of whats discussed on the OneShow isn't discussed at all and the conclusions smack of government backed dictate. Including constant NHS dicatates on obesity which we also see on the News along with messages about Climate Change ( so they can meet targets). Lets see these experts who say fat people shouldn't be seen on TV lets see these faceless people who are more facist than the BNP. Its more to do with eugenics than health no doubt the government does in its ignorance think theres a cost cutting benefit for NHS if everyone follows the dictate that to be average sized is the ideal but most people here and across the nation are discussing how fat people look and are not debating the health issues. Its a charter for bullies. Walking across the road carries a health risk - so why don't we all live in caves and never venture out.
I'm sick of boring skinny people on TV. Don't these health experts have patients to see to- don't they ever get sick? Being fat is not a desease - the desease is health experts giving medical names for everything and giving us all dictates and making everyone sick of them.
The One Show has some good presenters but its turning out to be an informal public information program - a daytime TV show for the early evening.
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Yes, it is happening in the south east too and oddly, diesel is selling for the same price (or just slightly above) that of petrol. Yet it remains without comment in the media despite every week another penny being added to the price. A case for Dom to investigate?
scotann wrote:
has anyone else noticed that petrol is now well over the £1 mark again and nothing seems to have been said.
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Having watched the programme last night, may I thank the guest who at least had half the guts to say that perhaps we shouldn't be ridiculing fat people as we do in the way we do.
Speaking as an overweight person (obese if you like!!!) I know what the ridicule feels like and have done for a great deal of my adult life. I'm not proud of being overweight, neither am I ashamed. I am who I am. I did not set out in life to become fat, life happens!
I wonder who will be societies next target?? Perhaps people with large feet (take more shoe leather), large noses (take more air)? Big mouths perhaps........? Just ask yourselves where we have come as the civilised world, we are still aiming to stamp out all forms of segreggation and racism, ethnic cleansing etc etc. PLEASE tell me where this is different?
None of us it seems are happy in life unless we target someone who we think is "less" (or in this case) more than ourselves. We comment on other people like as if we have the God given right to. When I was a child it was common place to ridicule someone by name calling and singling out people with physical or mental disabilities, now thank God this is much less so.
I am in no way advocating being overweight, it is increasing and it is a great concern. Bring it to peoples attention, teach it in schools but PLEASE I beg of you - don't make us the next target!
And one last comment. Perhaps these people who proport to understand the human psyche should note this: People who over eat tend to do so not through sheer greed as tabloids and press portray. They eat to get over life's issues, just like people turn to drink, drugs etc. Yes there are "support clubs" in the same way as addiction but ours is a far more visible and the solution just as hard.
You may find by highlighting this in the way you're doing, you drive obese people to the comfort of there own homes.... And there I think they may just do the EXACT opposite of what you're advocating!
Pretty sure there are people out there who will know where I'm coming from? Also sure that the bigots out there will also disagree.
If you're perfect..........hold your hand up please? Mine for one is staying glued to my side!
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This is a interesting subject for discussion, however I've also noticed (as almost everyone else who's visited this discussion board) two posts on here that have nothing to do with "Is big beautiful?"
"has anyone else noticed that petrol is now well over the 1 mark again and nothing seems to have been said."
"Yes, it is happening in the south east too and oddly, diesel is selling for the same price (or just slightly above) that of petrol. Yet it remains without comment in the media despite every week another penny being added to the price. A case for Dom to investigate?
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"has anyone else noticed that petrol is now well over the 1 mark again and nothing seems to have been said."
As a motorist myself, I do agree fuel prices have gone up recently and not to diminish this subject either as it's also an important topic for myself and many others and the The One Show should put Dom on the case, but this is not related to the "Is big beautiful?" discussion board.
The BBC's own "House Rules" specifies a reason as I'm quoting here "Are considered to be off-topic for the particular message board" as a reason for removal of a message, to allow these posts to remain on this discussion board is inappropriate and is almost disrespectful to all the other contributers as it bears no relation to the topic being discussed on this particular message board? I've asked for these to be removed, but have so-far, it's been refused? It looks as though the BBC are condoning these irrelevant posts, it's a shame as this appears to a bit of a farce to me?
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I am very angry too over last night's programme.
The very last thing that "fat" people need is a pious "expert" talking about a problem she clearly has no personal experience of and with such pity for us fatties on her face.
Some fat people deserve to be so. Others do not. I have worked hard ALL MY LIFE against putting on weight. I appreciate being overweight is not healthy. Education has taught me that. I ALREADY KNOW! Getting a blond stick with a pittiful face to rub my nose in it is not going to help.
It is hard to overcome the bullying and prejudice that goes with the fat territory and your guest did nothing to help me or other fatties who are still feeling of less worth because of this.
Beauty is not in size, shape, colour or any other differenciator. It is only what you are like on the inside. Your spirit and soul.
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Well my thoughts and opinions are on this subject are the following:
1) I dont think People choose to be Fat!
2) I used to be considered over weight in my school days. I was called Doughnut and mocked and considered pretty but not slim enough to be entered into The Schools Beauty Pageants, year after year. I was always in the aisles cheering my friends on in the Beauty Pageants whilst I secretly wanted to one of them and join them on that stage! That has all changed now as I am now Modelling in My 40's and feeling Fit and Fab! Plus I am currently a semi-finalist in a Beauty Pageant in My 40's! It was an emotional journey to get there but once you know why and how to change, you are then fully equipped to succeed like I myself have done. Knowledge certainly is power!
3) I know that one becomes over weight because of emotional issues and one finds comfort in food like I myself did.
4) Food becomes your friend and confidante
5) Over weight people should not be judged but understood and helped
Lastly, there are far more serious issues happening around us which need our focus and attention. AIDS, Motherless children, homelessness, unemployment and the aged.
With Luv, Light and Liberty
Donna Africa
www.donnaafrica.co.uk
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See main post 8 July for my previous comments. Further reply to these comments being posted on main thread.
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Please tell your expert nutritionist that obesity is not a disease. By calling it that it removes all responsibility from those who cannot or will not control their own diet. You might get a disease as a result of obesity but being fat is not one!
The reason in most cases that people are fat is that they eat too much and don't exercise. (I should know). If someone likes to be fat however, then it is entirely up to them. I have a friend who is as thin as a rake, but has high blood pressure, high chlorestrol and diabetes so it doesn't always follow.
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Its okay to be fat but not to fat like Johnny vegas used to be... That guy was a wale of a laugh- not in a good way. Why are really fat people funny?
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I have only just read all the comments;as aretired nurse I know that being overweight CAN cause problems as one gets older.However what gets me really cross is that poeple who are heavier through no fault of their own are lumped with those who really do overeat.
I have Diabetes and when diagnosedwas within my correct weight range,put on medication and the insulin and my weight went up wholesale--I have always been active,large allotment with all the fresh food, walked miles,etc etc--dont have the allotment but am still as active as my body lets be be--so message to those whohave a go at us--think before you speak
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It's ok if you don't mind. 9and 1/2 stone is my limit then I don't feel right. BUT I think far more people die of obesity related problems than of swine flu.
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Adrian was wearing what looked like a standard prison service shirt. Which prison did you nick it from?!!!!
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Not neccesarily. If you are good looking it does not matter what size you are and having a nice personality helps to make you nicer looking.
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I have reached middle age and have become fat. It certainly is not something to boast about, but seems inevitable as one gets older. However, the really dangerously obese are unpleasant to see.
Men were supposed to love big breasts, but I found them off-putting. Sometimes they were well out of proportion to the body, looking awkward and clumsy.
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I gave birth a few months ago and I just can't seem to shift the weight I put on when I was pregnant. In fact I still look pregnant. I've cut out snacks completely, I try to excercise as much as possible and I'm down to eating just one meal a day (yes this is true)but it doesn't seem to be making a scrap of difference. My fiance loves my curves but I can't bear to look at myself in the mirror. I think I look like a bag of rubbish tied up with string. What makes it worse is that I am only 5'2" so I look as broad as I am long. Some people carry their weight well, especially if they're tall but not me.
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