Reply #80: Then you should have words with my doctor

[melody]

It's not simply wrong. Based upon your disputing "facts" I haven't stated, I doubt you've read any of my posts.

When did I dismiss obesity as a health issue? People want to react against fat people so they see their general points and attack them without reading details.

I am morbidly obese and have been all my life (just like my 85 year old aunt and most of my family). I only state this to help others who are fat -- believe me, you become a target for every misguided medical moralist. lol I am NOT an exception -- my 300 pound mother-in-law is also quite hail and hearty at 82 years of age). The decrease in lifespan exists, but it's small -- fat people shave, even at considerable morbid obesity, 10 years off lifespan, not 30 or 40 years s many people think. It's also quite simply a fact that obesity is usually incurable. WLS is a risky procedure. Obesity IS disabling, but there is a greater likelihood of kicking heroin than there is of losing weight and keeping it off. Yoyo dieting is unhealthy. It's better on the body to simply stay at a larger weight than to continually lose and gain.

As such, the right choice for many fat people may be eating healthy and exercising, and not focusing on thinness as a sign of "health". It also provides a degree of peace of mind no amount of extra years could possibly make up for.