[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

More cancers are caused by obesity than by smoking apparently so yes something needs to be done by food manufacturers, diet companies and us ourselves.

Quite right. It's simplistic to suppose that everyone who is overweight is lazy and greedy. So many mental health issues can lead to comfort eating and other strange relationships with food and yet look at all the people here saying that all you need to do is eat less and move more. If only it was that simple. Maybe it makes some people feel better about their own fat bodies to laugh at others, I don't know... but obese people need just as much sympathy and support as the little waif-like anorexia sufferers. Obesity and anorexia are different ends of the same scale and yet no one says to anorexia sufferers, you just need to eat something, that's all.

Sadly, people will look as a super skinny anorexia sufferer and say, oh look she's tiny, like a little waif.... or something equally as inane. At the same time they'll look at someone who's obese and say, look at that fat, lazy cow.