The Men Who Made Us Thin

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12. If you don't think fat people count calories, you've been living the life of a hermit.

It is an unhealthy preoccupation for just about everybody. Calories don't present the full picture, they're only a small part of the puzzle of the obesity epidemic. If calories in/calories out were the whole story, all these diets would work and weight would stay off forever. It doesn't.

One study some years back surveyed a group of obese women, keeping food diaries on all of them, and found their diets were much more healthful, higher in fruits and veggies and lower in fats and empty carbohydrates than their thin sisters.

This wasn't true of the morbidly obese, who really do have terrible food habits, but you can't assume that the people who are obese but able to maintain an active life are the same as the morbidly obese who aren't.

Instead of fat shaming people who really can't help their body type, try shaming people whose behavior really does injure us all, the greedy bastards using labor as a resource to be stripmined.