Fatness

You misunderstand me. I was talking about the people who were insulting you in the comments. I was attempting to stick up for you. I'm not offended in the slightest. Would your friends jump off a cliff: I get what I think you're are trying to convey however I don't think that is what I was trying to convey. My point was not that if your friends jumped off a cliff you should to. More of if your friends jumped off a cliff you should realize that generally there is reasoning behind their actions and that it is their decision. Moreover the saying of jumping off a cliff has a lot of different views to it. Generally it is thought that they are doing it just because, however for example during 9/11 people jumped out of the windows because the alternative is being burned or suffocated to death which are both much more painful. My point being that sometimes jumping off the cliff is a good idea. Image of ill health and badness: I highly disagree with this. Again I see what you're getting at however look at the NFL lineman or rugby players or heavyweight fighters like Fedor Emelianenko. They are fat, however they are still much more in shape than a majority of the population. They lift amazing amounts of weight and can still out sprint me and I think you as well. Therefore I think there are much better examples of ill health then fat people. I think the people mentioned above will outlive you and more than possibly me. I also did not understand what you said here, " another reason why 65% of Americans being fat is not normal, is simple biology. We are not designed to be as fat as them people". If 65% of Americans are fat then that makes being fat normal. Also I think that being fat is not some miraculous adaptation. I think just about every human and animal can become "fat". Therefore we are technically designed to be fat. Reducing instead of accepting: I think that at least in the U.S we realize that being fat is not a good thing in most cases and do try and reduce it. However we see that this is a reasonably good problem to have compared to ones that we could be facing. Not only is it a strong part of American ideology to being accepting but if we really crack down on fitness such as like in the Soviet Union and soon possibly Russia much worse problems will spawn from it. Kids today aren't concerned with their health: I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Colorado is the healthiest state and the springs one of the healthiest cities in Colorado. Thus I am in a non normal situation regarding health. At my school and in my community fitness is a decent portion of peoples life's. Whether this is due to the influence of the military population or because of some other reason I am not sure. During parent teacher conferences we see kids with their parents. The amount of fat parents that have non fat kids is a vast majority. This may not be the case in other areas but kids not being attentive to their health is not a problem what so ever. Personally I started seriously working out because I saw the fit media people and I think a way I am able to call myself a "cool kid" is because I am one of the strongest and most comprehensibly fittest people in the school. I think the majority of my school is not fat and encourages everyone to work out and be fit. Our school gym is constantly full and the gyms in our community are constantly populated with young people. So at least in my community your points are inverse to my community. My third point does not really contribute to the argument. Fourth point: As stated above I do not think that society encourages fatness, I think it discourages it. My example was in reference to a friend of mine. He went to a very intensive college and major. He and his parents were poor and so as if his studies didn't take up enough time he had to work two jobs, one with the army as a software engineer and another at a restaurant. He had no time to work out, he barely had time to sleep and he was poor so he ate fatty cheap food. Naturally he got fat. He now works at a major defense contractor. He goes to work early and comes back late. He works on very important and difficult projects that absorbs all of his time. The time that isn't spent at work or reading books to help him with work is spent with his family. He runs occasionally but his life has practically forced him into being fat. This is only one of the examples that I can come up with. My point: Being fat is a much better problem to have than many others. Society is encouraging itself to become more and more fit but it is important that we respect the decisions and rights of others and accept their actions. We are far from glamorizing fatness and I do not see any future of which fatness is glamorized. Media stars are getting more and more fit not getting fatter.