People who are "overweight" do not offend my sense of rightness. They like to eat but they are still active enough to where if they wanted to they could be at their ideal weight/height ratio.
Grossly obese people that I've seen offend me greatly, though I keep it to myself and just shake my head sadly.
While true some folks have a glandular imbalance that causes obesity not all obese people have it. It's a convenient crutch to prevent exercise and proper diet. They'll blame knee injuries, leg, hip and other maladies that prevent them from simply walking around the block on a daily basis until they can extend it to two, three, and perhaps someday make it a mile.
True, they probably do have knee/joint problems brought on by their weight. If they had exercised prior and during their massive weight gain then perhaps their body would be sufficient enough to carry that much.
But they lack largely in muscular development. Carrying around body fat. And lots of it.
Laziness is 50/50. 50% the obese and 50% society's reliance and fondness for technology. So much of our technology makes our lives so much easier than say 50-60 years ago. My favorite example is that damned tv remote. How many of you remember actually having to get out of your chair/couch to walk over to the TV set and change the channel? The only muscle needed now is the thumb, you can rest your hand on your propped up knee and aim the remote sensor at the tv and just press a button (or three).
Remember how everyone in school just HATED P.E. ? That carried over to where it's now not compulsory. So if a kid doesn't wanna then he don't hafta. He/She will just munch on their snacks and deal with their teenage angst by stuffing as much food inside them as they can.
We can blame computer/video games if we wanted to. No going out and playing rough and tumble games because they might get hurt or fall into the wrong crowd. Blame all of that on the parents who buy the damned things for their kids.
Quick fixes are a doctor's way of paying for that deluxe leather edition Rolls Royce Silver Shadow V they ordered. Gil Gerard (aka Buck Rogers) had that surgery. I know of several who have had it. A lady that I know has had it and she used to be in the 4-500 lbs range and managed to lose a couple hundred. But mentally she sunk back into her depression (that got her obese in the first place) and inspite of her 1lb intake capacity is ballooning again. Chances are she'll kill herself as she's also diabetic. She just nods and smiles and says "I know, I'm working on it" when her friends plead with her to take better care of herself... but.
The man who died had that surgery and had lost a significant amount... he used to be a record holder of over 1200 lbs. and was down to 900+ but still being so large he couldn't move. Yeah folks kept bringing him food and that was probably all they could do for him... that and cleaning him up.
Garza said he always struggled with his weight, but that he fell into a desperate cycle of depression and overeating nine months ago after his parents died of natural causes within two weeks of each other. He had been bedridden for four months.
Same as my friend.
Still the human capacity for compassion demands that we help these people regardless of how they make us feel. We owe it to ourselves and to them to help them when they ask for it.
