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Dear Guardian,
Jul. 2nd, 2010 04:18 pmYour headline had the word "obesity" in it, so I knew before I clicked the link that I'd be seeing a Headless Fatty.
Your byline was "Figures show large jump in obesity as well as drink and drug-related deaths, although life expectancy continues to rise". This would tend to suggest to me that "obesity" is not the OMGTIMEBOMB that it's been cast as. Indeed your article spectacularly fails to mention rises in diabetes, heart disease, and other attendant OMGTIMEBOMB horrors that we've been told will accompany the DEATHFAT. Could this strange statistical anomaly have anything to do with the fact you note - that "we eat more fruit and vegetables and consume less sugar"? Could it be, in fact, that a better and more health-giving message to send might be "well done, Britain! Keep on eating well!"? Of course not. You'd rather keep disembodying me and portraying me as everything that is evil. The thing that happens to people if they're too "naughty" in their food and exercise choices. (Food does not have moral value, y'all.) Apparently, my body is a thing to be feared more than alcoholism or drug-addiction. Y'know, those actual, damaging, deadly medical conditions.
I'm sick of being told, implicitly and explicitly, that my body is a health crisis. I'm sick of waiting 'til I'm feeling strong, and know I have some free time, before posting like this - because I know that someone will want to tell me that my body is a health crisis.
Your byline was "Figures show large jump in obesity as well as drink and drug-related deaths, although life expectancy continues to rise". This would tend to suggest to me that "obesity" is not the OMGTIMEBOMB that it's been cast as. Indeed your article spectacularly fails to mention rises in diabetes, heart disease, and other attendant OMGTIMEBOMB horrors that we've been told will accompany the DEATHFAT. Could this strange statistical anomaly have anything to do with the fact you note - that "we eat more fruit and vegetables and consume less sugar"? Could it be, in fact, that a better and more health-giving message to send might be "well done, Britain! Keep on eating well!"? Of course not. You'd rather keep disembodying me and portraying me as everything that is evil. The thing that happens to people if they're too "naughty" in their food and exercise choices. (Food does not have moral value, y'all.) Apparently, my body is a thing to be feared more than alcoholism or drug-addiction. Y'know, those actual, damaging, deadly medical conditions.
I'm sick of being told, implicitly and explicitly, that my body is a health crisis. I'm sick of waiting 'til I'm feeling strong, and know I have some free time, before posting like this - because I know that someone will want to tell me that my body is a health crisis.
