[Pilgrim37]

Do you applaud her article?
does Roosh award her a Gold star?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl...oners.html

[liberman]

From the article

Quote:

The statistics speak for themselves. According to the Government-backed Health And Social Care Information Centre, the proportion of overweight and obese women has increased by 10  per cent in less than a decade.

This trend if it continues will be worse for the future player than the current smartphone and social media proliferation amongst girls.

Also its funny how the Dailymail is distancing itself from the possible backlash of the article by making it very clear that the article represents the authors personal opinion.

[WilliamShatnersEgo]

Fatties gonna fat. The only thing we can start doing is indoctrinating the youth into healthy culture. Unfortunately, that's a huge problem because kids learn how to be fat from their parents who are already gross.

[Constantia]

(07-10-2014 09:16 AM)WilliamShatnersEgo Wrote:  

Unfortunately, that's a huge problem because kids learn how to be fat from their parents who are already gross.

This so much.

My folks keep eating pork and drinking soda even though they both have a case of high blood pressure and clogged arteries.

I've stopped eating pork and drinking soda ages ago. When I try to taste them now, my body just feels disgusting afterward. I don't know how my folks can keep eating all that greasy stuff.

[roberto]

(07-10-2014 10:10 AM)Constantia Wrote:  

This so much.

My folks keep eating pork and drinking soda even though they both have a case of high blood pressure and clogged arteries.

I've stopped eating pork and drinking soda ages ago. When I try to taste them now, my body just feels disgusting afterward. I don't know how my folks can keep eating all that greasy stuff.

Nothing wrong with pork. Everything wrong with soda.

[Constantia]

(07-10-2014 10:16 AM)roberto Wrote:  

(07-10-2014 10:10 AM)Constantia Wrote:  

This so much.

My folks keep eating pork and drinking soda even though they both have a case of high blood pressure and clogged arteries.

I've stopped eating pork and drinking soda ages ago. When I try to taste them now, my body just feels disgusting afterward. I don't know how my folks can keep eating all that greasy stuff.

Nothing wrong with pork. Everything wrong with soda.

Maybe its the way Filipinos cook pork.
That adobo pork just tastes so damn greasy and gross. I can't understand why my own race is so addicted to it.

Soda is a universal no-no for sure.

[roberto]

Ah, is that the Asian way, fried in oil so the fat's not all crispy? No, can't stand that. But on the barbie, yes please!

[Constantia]

(07-10-2014 10:35 AM)roberto Wrote:  

Ah, is that the Asian way, fried in oil so the fat's not all crispy? No, can't stand that. But on the barbie, yes please!

Its exactly that. When you eat filipino/asian-style pork, all you taste is oil. Oil everywhere. Might as well drink a litre of corn oil.

Love BBQ pork though. I need to find better pork recipes so I can get over the trauma of oily asian-style pork. Euurrgh.

[game_ethic]

Belongs in Everything Else.

[OBJ Snakebite]

(07-10-2014 10:40 AM)Constantia Wrote:  

I need to find better pork recipes so I can get over the trauma of oily asian-style pork. Euurrgh.

There is nothing wrong with fat. Fat=flavor. The problems come in when you consume 10kg of starches and sugars along with it.

Read this.

But here are some recipes.

[Lizard King]

It's crazy that these type of views(well their facts: fat=unhealthy,bad) are seen as a minority view and are infrequently given the focus they deserve.

[Dusty]

This was a great article and deserves more comments here on RVF. Bumping it and put the yet here:

Quote:

Why are today's young women so unashamed about being fat? Horrified by the rolls of flesh she's witnessed on show this summer, LINDA KELSEY takes no prisoners
Our writer is a self-confessed fattist
She thinks being obese is unattractive and unhealthy
She doesn't believe issue should be tip-toed around for fear of causing eating disorders
By LINDA KELSEY

PUBLISHED: 16:48 EST, 9 July 2014

Standing in the queue for airport security at Luton last week, en route to Malaga and my fortnight in the sun, I became transfixed by the three young women in front of me.

All in their early 20s, they were laughing and chatting, clearly looking forward to their hols on the Costa del Sol, excitedly planning their days on the beach and nights on the town.

They sounded - and looked - happy and carefree. But what mesmerised me most about this jolly trio was not their conversation, but their appearance: they were size 18 apiece, at least.

They were not chubby, but fat. They had bulging bellies and billowing pillows of back and shoulder stuffing, punctured by flabby arms and lardy legs that no amount of fake-tan could disguise.

And what struck me even more forcefully about these lumpen individuals (there were dozens more, equally large, in the queue behind me) was how obviously unconcerned they were about it.

One was wearing shockingly skimpy crochet shorts, as seen on size-zero models in adverts. But in this case, the shorts made it appear the wearer had an extra bottom hanging below the cut-off hemline.

Another girl wore white stretch leggings with a pattern of cellulite dimples showing through, accessorised with a super-sized sausage of overhanging belly.

Meanwhile, the third sported a cut-away vest top revealing the entire back of her pink bra, complete with chunky rolls of fat above, beneath and around the straps. To top it all, these three were - I kid you not - sharing a bag of crisps.

"A generation of mothers seem to have swallowed a dangerously misguided message of body acceptance; making them terrified of telling their daughters they're getting fat for fear they'll stop eating altogether..."

It occurred to me that if these girls hated their bodies and were racked with self-loathing, as we're so often told that the majority of young women do and are, they were doing a grand job of projecting exactly the opposite impression.

Far from body hatred, what I witnessed was a let-it-all-hang-out faith in themselves and a don't-give-a-damn attitude to their evident obesity.

And it's one that must be shared by many, given that it's not just in departure lounges that I witness young fatties confidently flashing their flesh. I see it on the High Street every day of summer, in the park where they strip down to their undies the second the sun comes out, and outside any given pub after dark, even in winter.

Un-PC of me as it may be to criticise my sex for their size, when it comes to weight I'm not afraid to say it: I am unapologetically fattist. It's unattractive, it's unhealthy and, given the problems that being fat can cause, it should be as unacceptable as smoking.

Yet to judge by the moral panic over anorexia you would think our daughters are a generation of self-starving stick insects. That each and every one of them is dangerously striving for Keira Knightley's razor-sharp scapula and fried egg breasts or Victoria Beckham's hand-span thighs and knife-edge hips.

This is clearly a fallacy, and it's one that needs addressing, because not only are most fatties doing nothing substantial to reduce their size, the cost of obesity to the nation's health - not to mention the health budget - is enormous. And it's getting worse.

I don't deny that anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders are a pernicious problem, and I've witnessed at close hand the devastating effects of anorexia as young daughters of friends and acquaintances have succumbed to it.

But in the cases I've come across, the psychological issues these girls were suffering from had far more to do with their driven personalities, their determination to be A*  students at any cost, as well as troubles with over-demanding parents, than simply emulating glossy magazine images of super-skinny models and stick-thin celebrities on the red carpet.

Skinny celebrity icons are an issue, but I don't believe they're the issue on which society should focus in our muddle over body image.

Far more attention and, dare I say it, opprobrium needs to be directed at young fatties who eat unhealthy diets and sit around watching TV and texting rather than going to the gym or even for a walk.

While it's well known that socio-economic factors have a bearing on weight - with those on lower incomes more likely to eat sugar and fat-laden diets, and less likely to exercise - there are other factors being ignored.

A generation of mothers seem to have swallowed a dangerously misguided message of body acceptance; making them terrified of telling their daughters they're getting fat for fear they'll stop eating altogether.

Mums are now so busy shoring up their daughters' self-worth by telling them they're lovely just the way they are, they're becoming guilty of benign neglect instead.

I can't count the number of mothers who have confided in me their concerns about their daughters' weight, while emphasising they'd never say anything about them tipping the scales because they don't want to tip them into anorexia.

I don't have a daughter, nor do I have a weight problem. I've always felt it was unattractive and unhealthy to be fat and I've always been disciplined about what I eat without ever starving myself.

I love food, but even today, at 62, I am still very careful to cut back if I feel my jeans getting too tight. While I have sympathy for those with genuine metabolic conditions, the majority of today's fatties seem simply too greedy, ill-disciplined and or ignorant to do the same.

The statistics speak for themselves. According to the Government-backed Health And Social Care Information Centre, the proportion of overweight and obese women has increased by 10  per cent in less than a decade.

And youngsters are getting fatter at an ever earlier age - one in ten four to five-year olds are now officially obese when they start school. That figure almost doubles when you look at under-15s. These statistics are particularly shocking because the earlier fat sets in, the harder it is to shift in later life.

Of course we can, and should, blame the greedy manufacturers of addictive sugar and fat-loaded foods for cynically marketing them at the young.

But as a mother of a food-loving son myself - who was only allowed biscuits, ice cream and the occasional McDonald's as treats - I know full well that healthy alternatives are out there. Overfeeding your kids is not love, it's abuse.

Fat is killing millions and costing billions. More than £5 billion to the NHS each year, in fact, compared to the £80 million to £100 million that eating disorders cost.

Of course, eating disorders can kill. But being overweight leads to high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks and even cancer. According to Cancer Research UK, as many as one in ten cancer cases could be prevented by improving our diet. The link to breast cancer is less clear, but dietary fats are increasingly thought to be implicated.

Type 2 diabetes, linked to being overweight, is on the increase and more children are suffering from it. Asthma, sleep apnoea, acid reflux, fatty liver disease, dozens of illnesses, minor and major, can be linked to being overweight. Fat, and this can’t be denied, is fatal.

We live in a society in which it has become OK to shame people for being skinny, but to come out and say 'You’re fat. Not healthy, not a good look' would be tantamount to a crime.

It's about time we stopped tiptoeing around the size issue, stopped kidding ourselves that anorexia, however serious, is the biggest eating problem we face, and started to tackle fat for the problem that it is.

Not because celebrities and models are worthy of emulating but because fat is a blight on both individuals and society.

One way to start might be by calling a fat girl a fat girl. No apology required.

[Tytalus]

Good for her. I'm happy to see someone, somewhere saying, "Can't we all agree they (fatties) just look gross?"

[RURALGAMER]

Men are partially to blame. How many times have you seen a decent looking guy with a disgusting hog? It's getting more and more common.
If they were treated like the undesirables they are more of them would get the message....

I have a good friend who married a woman with a pretty solid body. now she is a fat slob. it's not fair to him and women who do this deserve any kind of fucking around their husbands put them through

[Frank Rook]

(07-11-2014 08:41 PM)Dusty Wrote:  

This was a great article and deserves more comments here on RVF. Bumping it and put the yet here:

Quote:

Why are today's young women so unashamed about being fat? Horrified by the rolls of flesh she's witnessed on show this summer, LINDA KELSEY takes no prisoners
Our writer is a self-confessed fattist
She thinks being obese is unattractive and unhealthy
She doesn't believe issue should be tip-toed around for fear of causing eating disorders
By LINDA KELSEY

PUBLISHED: 16:48 EST, 9 July 2014

Standing in the queue for airport security at Luton last week, en route to Malaga and my fortnight in the sun, I became transfixed by the three young women in front of me.

All in their early 20s, they were laughing and chatting, clearly looking forward to their hols on the Costa del Sol, excitedly planning their days on the beach and nights on the town.

They sounded - and looked - happy and carefree. But what mesmerised me most about this jolly trio was not their conversation, but their appearance: they were size 18 apiece, at least.

They were not chubby, but fat. They had bulging bellies and billowing pillows of back and shoulder stuffing, punctured by flabby arms and lardy legs that no amount of fake-tan could disguise.

And what struck me even more forcefully about these lumpen individuals (there were dozens more, equally large, in the queue behind me) was how obviously unconcerned they were about it.

One was wearing shockingly skimpy crochet shorts, as seen on size-zero models in adverts. But in this case, the shorts made it appear the wearer had an extra bottom hanging below the cut-off hemline.

Another girl wore white stretch leggings with a pattern of cellulite dimples showing through, accessorised with a super-sized sausage of overhanging belly.

Meanwhile, the third sported a cut-away vest top revealing the entire back of her pink bra, complete with chunky rolls of fat above, beneath and around the straps. To top it all, these three were - I kid you not - sharing a bag of crisps.

"A generation of mothers seem to have swallowed a dangerously misguided message of body acceptance; making them terrified of telling their daughters they're getting fat for fear they'll stop eating altogether..."

It occurred to me that if these girls hated their bodies and were racked with self-loathing, as we're so often told that the majority of young women do and are, they were doing a grand job of projecting exactly the opposite impression.

Far from body hatred, what I witnessed was a let-it-all-hang-out faith in themselves and a don't-give-a-damn attitude to their evident obesity.

And it's one that must be shared by many, given that it's not just in departure lounges that I witness young fatties confidently flashing their flesh. I see it on the High Street every day of summer, in the park where they strip down to their undies the second the sun comes out, and outside any given pub after dark, even in winter.

Un-PC of me as it may be to criticise my sex for their size, when it comes to weight I'm not afraid to say it: I am unapologetically fattist. It's unattractive, it's unhealthy and, given the problems that being fat can cause, it should be as unacceptable as smoking.

Yet to judge by the moral panic over anorexia you would think our daughters are a generation of self-starving stick insects. That each and every one of them is dangerously striving for Keira Knightley's razor-sharp scapula and fried egg breasts or Victoria Beckham's hand-span thighs and knife-edge hips.

This is clearly a fallacy, and it's one that needs addressing, because not only are most fatties doing nothing substantial to reduce their size, the cost of obesity to the nation's health - not to mention the health budget - is enormous. And it's getting worse.

I don't deny that anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders are a pernicious problem, and I've witnessed at close hand the devastating effects of anorexia as young daughters of friends and acquaintances have succumbed to it.

But in the cases I've come across, the psychological issues these girls were suffering from had far more to do with their driven personalities, their determination to be A*  students at any cost, as well as troubles with over-demanding parents, than simply emulating glossy magazine images of super-skinny models and stick-thin celebrities on the red carpet.

Skinny celebrity icons are an issue, but I don't believe they're the issue on which society should focus in our muddle over body image.

Far more attention and, dare I say it, opprobrium needs to be directed at young fatties who eat unhealthy diets and sit around watching TV and texting rather than going to the gym or even for a walk.

While it's well known that socio-economic factors have a bearing on weight - with those on lower incomes more likely to eat sugar and fat-laden diets, and less likely to exercise - there are other factors being ignored.

A generation of mothers seem to have swallowed a dangerously misguided message of body acceptance; making them terrified of telling their daughters they're getting fat for fear they'll stop eating altogether.

Mums are now so busy shoring up their daughters' self-worth by telling them they're lovely just the way they are, they're becoming guilty of benign neglect instead.

I can't count the number of mothers who have confided in me their concerns about their daughters' weight, while emphasising they'd never say anything about them tipping the scales because they don't want to tip them into anorexia.

I don't have a daughter, nor do I have a weight problem. I've always felt it was unattractive and unhealthy to be fat and I've always been disciplined about what I eat without ever starving myself.

I love food, but even today, at 62, I am still very careful to cut back if I feel my jeans getting too tight. While I have sympathy for those with genuine metabolic conditions, the majority of today's fatties seem simply too greedy, ill-disciplined and or ignorant to do the same.

The statistics speak for themselves. According to the Government-backed Health And Social Care Information Centre, the proportion of overweight and obese women has increased by 10  per cent in less than a decade.

And youngsters are getting fatter at an ever earlier age - one in ten four to five-year olds are now officially obese when they start school. That figure almost doubles when you look at under-15s. These statistics are particularly shocking because the earlier fat sets in, the harder it is to shift in later life.

Of course we can, and should, blame the greedy manufacturers of addictive sugar and fat-loaded foods for cynically marketing them at the young.

But as a mother of a food-loving son myself - who was only allowed biscuits, ice cream and the occasional McDonald's as treats - I know full well that healthy alternatives are out there. Overfeeding your kids is not love, it's abuse.

Fat is killing millions and costing billions. More than £5 billion to the NHS each year, in fact, compared to the £80 million to £100 million that eating disorders cost.

Of course, eating disorders can kill. But being overweight leads to high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks and even cancer. According to Cancer Research UK, as many as one in ten cancer cases could be prevented by improving our diet. The link to breast cancer is less clear, but dietary fats are increasingly thought to be implicated.

Type 2 diabetes, linked to being overweight, is on the increase and more children are suffering from it. Asthma, sleep apnoea, acid reflux, fatty liver disease, dozens of illnesses, minor and major, can be linked to being overweight. Fat, and this can’t be denied, is fatal.

We live in a society in which it has become OK to shame people for being skinny, but to come out and say 'You’re fat. Not healthy, not a good look' would be tantamount to a crime.

It's about time we stopped tiptoeing around the size issue, stopped kidding ourselves that anorexia, however serious, is the biggest eating problem we face, and started to tackle fat for the problem that it is.

Not because celebrities and models are worthy of emulating but because fat is a blight on both individuals and society.

One way to start might be by calling a fat girl a fat girl. No apology required.

Thanks for sharing it here.
I'm pleasantly surprised she doesn't sugarcoat her words. Calling a fat spade a fat spade indeed.

'To Serve To Strive & Not To Yield'

[44delta]

I think this is a major part of what's wrong with American women as a whole -- 2/3 of 'em have grossly inflated bodies, and the remaining third have grossly inflated egos instead.

[iamdegaussed]

That was god damn beautiful.