yes

No.

Society as a whole is too focused on body image tbh. I can eat like shit (barely any fruit/veg) and still have a pretty nice body. Doesn't mean I'm that healthy. The focus should lie on making sure people have access to healthy food and a kitchen, and know how to cook. I'm hanging out with quite a few undergrad students right now and quite a few of them don't have any cooking knowledge beyond baking an egg.

In a way I think all of these obese people are perfectly aware of their weight problems and that it's not healthy. They probably have just given up because a lot of weight loss programs are scams and they see no success with them. Whatever fad diet is being made, it is made so that people try it for a short time and gain the weight back so they can go use the same or another program again.

Also note that being active == healthy/rich is a relatively new trend too. Even in the latter half of the previous century you were rich when you did not have to do manual labor. Some of that might still be dwelling around in society.

Solutions to the problem:
- Eliminate food deserts
- Mandatory PE in schools (primary and secondary education)
- Making sure that people have access to a kitchen (whether it's shared or not does not matter much)
- Cut down on corn subsidies and spend that money to subsidize vegetables/fruit.

well shaming no, but accepting something you could easily prevent which is detrimental to your health is nothing i do

/e i do know it is a true struggle for some, but not for all

This post was edited by HEAVENSHAKINGSWORD on May 21 2016 03:14am

more good abdominal genetics

if ppl wanna be fat, let them be fat

we ought to step to ensure that people remain productive members of society instead of accommodating poor lifestyle choices

They should be shamed, for sure.

If their not sufficiently shamed by their claim there probably isn't a way to shame them enough or ever rehabilitate them to the point they become contributing member's of society in even the slightest imaginable way.

kick em off benefits, and let them live in the streets... they can be fat there

This post was edited by Warlock316 on May 21 2016 02:36pm