Obese People Are Displeasing To Look At
August 20, 2008 by Scott Wharton
Filed under Men's Health
That’s what Ted Nugent say. If you watch Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations on The Travel Channel, then you may have caught the episode where he explores cuisines of America’s southwest and pays a visit to rock legend and outspoken conservative, Ted Nugent at his ranch in Texas. They spoke about hunting and eating wild game among other issues such as Obesity. As you may or may not know, Nugent is not known for sugar coating things and often his opinions are very blunt and sometimes over-thought statements with a touch of hurtful honesty. While I can agree to an extent on what he is saying, I think he could use a lesson in Tact. Ted puts it in the most blunt, yet uncouth was he knows how, with big words.
Read what “Uncle Teddy” says over at The Rock Dose.
While I think it’s a bit discriminating to say that obese people are displeasing to look at, I have seen some overly obese people and thought: “That is extremely unhealthy and they really need to do something about that soon.” Some individuals are so obese by their own doing and have no remorse or intentions of repairing the damage they have done to their body, inside and out. They often figure that there is no way of undoing it or are much too lazy to do something about it. Everyone knows it takes great time to reverse the process of obesity and are very discouraged by that fact. For some people it is a chemical dysfunction in the body, but for most it’s just over-indulgent eating and lack of physical activity.
Obesity is a widely growing problem (No pun intended) in America and other countries. Action can be taken towards prevention and reversal. It’s your life and your body. What you choose to do is your decision. So choose wisely.
Eat it now, wear it later has become a lifestyle. Eat to live has been sadly replaced with live to eat. I love food just as much as the next person, but enough is enough already…
Sometimes, that’s exactly what people need. Hurtful honesty! As a country we’re, fat, wasteful, and too proud for our own good.
people don’t get fat because they want to be fat. People abuse things and engage in self destructive behavior (over eat, under eat, take drugs, drink, are permiscious) for a reason- whatever it may be, its because they dont feel they deserve to be happy and healthy. perhaps if everyone was a little more understanding and concerned with whats CAUSING the person to overeat instead of that fact you are uncomfortable around them because you dont find them attractive, we could get the problem better under control. taunting a drug addict isnt going help them kick drugs. the overweight are ridiculed everyday, and its obviously not working. maybe its time to show a little a support and work towards a solution instead of continuing to judge. if one person shows them they are not their weight, perhaps they would take more pride in themselves and wanting to get healthy.
it shocks me how cruel people can be. replace fat with anorexic and everyone would be outraged. somehow its ok to pick on fat people, though.
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“replace fat with anorexic and everyone would be outraged”
You see this in the tabloids all the time. It’s either looks who is overweight, or look who is underweight.
I don’t think that ridicule is a solution. I think tough love and straight forwardness is a good policy, but I think we could do better by educating towards prevention. There are so many avenues of approach for people to take to better themselves bot mentally and physically, but ambition often lacks as well as time and resources.
I was overweight, but my problem was obvious and I changed before I got too far. My problem was that I loved eating and drinking, hell ,I still do. But I knew when I had to make a change. It’s often that we are happy when we are engaging in activities such as eating and drinking. We’re happy at that moment. When we take a look in the mirror at what we are doing to ourselves, THAT is the point where you’re not happy. We’re disgusted with what we have done to a once perfect body that we were born with and turned it into a gelatinous form of excuses, unhappiness and disatisfaction. It’s a rough road to weight loss, but it’s a road that CAN be traveled one way or another with the right guidance and motivation. That motivation not being redicule, but own free will.
I agree with you on just about everything Kelly, accept for one little thing;
anorexic people and people with eating disorders in general get harrased quite often. It’s continuously the butt of jokes on movies and television and it is used constantly as a way to insult a woman “tell that anorexic b*tch to shut up” how often do you hear something like this at a bar or other social setting?
descriminating against ANYONE for how they look, be it too fat, too thin, or anything else under the son, is just plain ignorant. If they are unhealthy, they are unhealthy, but no one else has a right to judge them.
stepping of the soap box now.
http://www.modbehav.com
scott- i was referring more to the obese: people are obese for a deep seated (did i use that right? seeded? like a planted seed? i dunno…) reason. You were able to look at yourself a few pounds too heavy and say “i dont need to dothis to myself, i deserve to be happy and healthy.” a lot of people want to be able to do that, but cant. they are hiding something with food and dont think they are worth the effort, or that they will just fail.
i deal with this everyday. Im a personal trainer, and its hard enough to prove to someone they are worth the time and effort, even when they have enough motivation to sign up and come to sessions- those that have even lower self worth and self esteem wont even try. you have to fix the inside before you fix the outside. being fat is a sympton of soemthing bigger- and we all know treating a symptom isnt going to help anything.
modelbehavior- thats true. i think people make fun of the IDEA of an eating disorder more than actual sufferers. the likelihood of someone walking up to someone they know for a fact is anorexic or an alcoholic and making fun of them to their face is far less likely than someone making a snide comment about a fat person. i see and hear it everyday. when i was bulimic, no one even uttered the word for fear of offending me.
What may have started with complicated psychological reasons eventually becomes an addition with many factors stacked against the person improving their situation. The real answer lies in treating the problem as an addition, and society changing to be more helpful with obesogenic factors, even if it means losing some of the freedoms to do what ever we want to ourselves.