I'm disgusted by what is going on. Big Fat Blog, which I read regularly, is running a piece on another blog, purportedly written by doctors, that ridicules fat people, compares fat people to animals, and accuses parents of fat children of child abuse.
Where is the child abuse? Granted, feeding your child nothing but donuts and cheetos is neglectful--not because the food is "junk" food, but because it's not nutritionally sound. The thing is, people will gravitate toward their natural body types. This means that if your parents are muscular, large-framed people with the tendency to build muscle easily and gain weight in certain spots, you're never going to be Twiggy. We need to stop looking at weight from a willpower perspective and look at it from a genetic perspective, like height. And much like negative nutrition can negatively effect height, negative nutrition can negatively effect weight. Whether this means that the negative nutrition leads to emaciation or obesity depends--people can be horrifyingly thin with the same poor nutrition habits that fat people are supposedly all guilty of.
I'll tell you where the child abuse is. It's in putting a five year-old on a restricted calorie diet, attaching shame, guilt, feelings of inadequacy and of needing to "earn" food to an inanimate object that otherwise has no association. It's in teaching a child to hate his or her body. And comparing fat people to animals, referring to their "blubber" and expressing your disgust with what are simply vessels for human beings tells us all that in order to be accepted, in order to be loved, we must be thin.
