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Obesity is the 'big' subject at the moment. There's a definite backlash that has already started and the media has latched onto (or, more correctly, created) a war between fat and thin.

It began recently in the US and it's now been taken up over here. My friend has recently been approached by magazines and TV companies to be the 'UK face of fat activism' after very eloquently defending herself in yesterday's Mirror against a bitter and very telling attack on bigger people by a woman who seems to spend her whole life and energy on maintaining her thinness.

My friend turned them down. I don't blame her.

I don't actually agree with fat activism in the sense that it should be promoted as an ideal way to live - simply because fat is nothing but a side effect of a psychological problem! What's the point in promoting it. I equally don't think 'thin' should be promoted as an ideal way to live either - simply because it's usually the result of chronic approval addiction and fear of rejection and neurosis. And thin under these circumstances is DEFINITELY NOT healthier than fat! Which might explain why moderately fatter people live longer than those who struggle to remain underweight.

Unfortunately thin is 'in' because forcing people to desire it makes some people a lot of money.

Most of the women who are measured against the current ideal and now considered fat (and therefore ugly) are absolute stunners when you look at them from any real and human point of view. Yes, so are as many of the thin ones.

Stop the brainwashing. Stop being told what to think. Start living in reality and deal with the problem itself (and that is the problem of compulsive overeating - which is believe it or not applicable to as many thin people as it is fat!) and not the physical side effect.

Stopping compulsive overeating and all of it's painful side effects (and there are many more than just fat!) is surely more important than all of this bitching and fighting and pointing the finger?

Ooh, it makes me so angry.