9. You’re All gonna Die 2
June 13, 2013Fat people got no reason
Fat people got no reason
Fat people got no reason
To live
They got big fat hands
Thunder thighs
They plod around
Puffin’ great big sighs
They got littler brains
They got damn iffy backs
They sit on their arses
Asking for heart attacks.
(With apologies to Randy Newman)
We are told there is an Obesity Epidemic as if you can catch obesity by standing beside someone packing a bit of cellulite.
If you have to be removed by a crane to get to hospital then you have a health problem. But obesity is presented in the media with such hysteria we could call it a NEGATIVE BIAS. The statistics are rarely questioned. And sometimes, these stats are not so damning.
Take diabetes and obesity statistics. Obesity increases the risk of diabetes. True.
According to Australian Healthy Weight Week website, an affiliate of the Dieticians Association of Australia, 61% of Australian adults are overweight. Meanwhile, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare puts the prevalence of diabetes in Aussie adults at 4.4% (all forms). Now wrap your head around this number. Even if all the 4.4% of Aussies with diabetes were overweight (they’re not), then 92.8% of fat people in Australia don’t have diabetes. But we still think fat people are evil.
They take up too much space
And breathe too much air
They stuff food in their faces
They don’t even care.
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