Here’s some of the intro:

The perception might not equal reality, according to a new study comparing how people perceive overweight workers’ demeanors and how those workers actually behave. A body of research already exists about weight discrimination in employment and promotion decisions, but this study, published in the August issue of the journal Group & Organization Management, goes deeper to see if that discrimination has any veracity.

It sounds like you are genetically predisposed to several health concerns, and, coincidentally, since so many of your family members are “fat”, you may have, or have had, issues yourself with your own weight. If you are fat and worried, I’d recommend following the links that anniemcphee has provided.
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If, like me, you are average-sized and generally healthy, (because the term “fat” is merely an opinion if one is not clinically obese. According to the ever-holy BMI index, I am not.) then by all means, try to calm down and Eat A Cheeseburger.

Like a big blockbuster Hollywood movie

The Fat-O-Phobes v.s. The Fat-O-Philes

Follow the links. Please.

Hookerbaby, start with http://www.junkfoodscience.blogspot.com and search “The Obesity Paradox” series. Then keep reading. For a few months. I’m really not kidding.

“This is true. Nor should everybody BE a size 4. Too small is as dangerous as too big, but people who are too small and rewarded far more. ” – also in my comment.

worried about teh fatties?

there are health risks involved – like my cousin, who developped diabetes during her pregnancy due to her weight, putting both herself and her child at risk. Like my father, who has to watch what he eats to avoid high blood pressure and gall bladder explosions. like my mother, who has thyroid issues and needs to always watch what she eats and still doesn’t lose weight. i’m not scared of fat people. i’m scared of people i love dying.

if you are fat and healthy? more power to you. it works for the majority. it doesn’t work for everybody, and in the same way that you don’t want people judging every fat person as unhealthy and lazy and ugly, because they are not, it is unfair to judge everybody in the medical community and everybody trying to lose weight as sucked in and unable to think for themselves.

that doesn’t mean that I think every large person has bad health. but at some point, for some people, they are bigger than even the healthiest of lifestyles can maintain. …”

You’re new around here, aren’t you hookerbaby.
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Please don’t worry so much about teh fatties. Are you frightened of fat people in some way? I don’t understand your specialized philanthropy…so concerned about others’ health…what about scrawny people? I mean…there comes a point at which being merely fit crosses over into an obsession, thus creating a mental and physical health risk.

Though intellectually lazy I think you’re there right on the top of the list. Taking what the television tells you without doing any research of your own… that is intellectually lazy.

Personally I’d rather know these people who are fat but very smart, funny, sometimes silly, able to use google in a proper fashion then someone who makes judgments on a group of people based on their weight and their nationality.

On to the post: The maybe we’re doomed before birth pissed me off big time. What the hell? Are you f*&^%$ serious… wow great way to tear down women.

I do want to make a note that they did mention drugs in there, they also mentioned some really off the wall retarded stuff. Basically the article is B.S. to the extreme.