You know, it's hard enough to be an overweight person (a couple readers have been trying to dissuade me from using the word "fat"), without all the insane side effects of this state.
Of course, it doesn't help that my mother will typically attribute any problem I am experiencing to my weight.
"My skin is so dry." // "That wouldn't even be a problem if you were thinner."
"I'm tired." // "Thinner people have more energy."
"My stomach hurts." // "You know, you wouldn't have so many problems if..."
You see where this is going. I mean, I am totally willing to accept that YES, my weight directly and indreictly affects my health. But my skin is dry because it's COLD outside. I am tired because I don't sleep well. Is that a result of being heavy? I don't know but when I was thin, I didn't sleep either.
It's just a depressing idea.
So it was with even more annoyance that I, again, found myself watching ABC News' montage of fat women walking down these city streets, again praying none of these bodies belonged to me or my friends. Which they didn't. The story was about Kidney Cancer and how women overweight are X amount of times more likely to be afflicted with this disease.
How nice.
Why are there never stories about diseases that skinny people are more likely to get? Why? Well, I suspect it's because no one is conducting those studies. No one is sitting in a lab somewhere thinking "wow, skinny people sure have it bad. Let's find out how ELSE we can screw up their lives!" It's really just a group of evil scientists (or at least, this is how I imagine it in my head), sitting around a lab, drumming their fingers on their cold, metal tables, thinking "wow, fat people sure are bad off. I bet their prone to more illnesses than everyone else. Let's make a list!"
Okay, so I've gotten that off my chest. I hope that doesn't make me more prone to some additional stress-induced ailment...
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You know, it's hard enough to be an overweight person (a couple readers have been trying to dissuade me from using the word "fat"), without all the insane side effects of this state.
Of course, it doesn't help that my mother will typically attribute any problem I am experiencing to my weight.
"My skin is so dry." // "That wouldn't even be a problem if you were thinner."
"I'm tired." // "Thinner people have more energy."
"My stomach hurts." // "You know, you wouldn't have so many problems if..."
You see where this is going. I mean, I am totally willing to accept that YES, my weight directly and indreictly affects my health. But my skin is dry because it's COLD outside. I am tired because I don't sleep well. Is that a result of being heavy? I don't know but when I was thin, I didn't sleep either.
It's just a depressing idea.
So it was with even more annoyance that I, again, found myself watching ABC News' montage of fat women walking down these city streets, again praying none of these bodies belonged to me or my friends. Which they didn't. The story was about Kidney Cancer and how women overweight are X amount of times more likely to be afflicted with this disease.
How nice.
Why are there never stories about diseases that skinny people are more likely to get? Why? Well, I suspect it's because no one is conducting those studies. No one is sitting in a lab somewhere thinking "wow, skinny people sure have it bad. Let's find out how ELSE we can screw up their lives!" It's really just a group of evil scientists (or at least, this is how I imagine it in my head), sitting around a lab, drumming their fingers on their cold, metal tables, thinking "wow, fat people sure are bad off. I bet their prone to more illnesses than everyone else. Let's make a list!"
Okay, so I've gotten that off my chest. I hope that doesn't make me more prone to some additional stress-induced ailment...