34 Stone Teen

I stumbled accross this article on the bbc website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5279052.stm

I thought I would add the following comment as others have done at the bottom of the page.

I find it funny that there are so many sympathetic comments towards this girl. These days when so much criticism is levelled at people who smoke and binge drink; why are you not chastising her for binge eating? She is causing far greater damage to her body than a smoker would and people like her must be an incredible strain on the NHS. Congratulations for finally trying to do something about your weight but surely you should have done somthing 15 stone ago.

Certainly there is far too much emphasis on physical appearance in modern society; accross both sexes but markedly more for females. The article cites that 94% of women are not happy with their bodies; I am sure that for the vast majority of them, there is nothing at all wrong with their bodies. People like the girl in the article though are a totally different case. There is plenty wrong with their bodies, they are disgusting. While there is so much emphasis nowadays on people who smoke and how much damage they are doing to their bodies, there seems to be a lot less than there should be for people who are eating themselves to death. Don't be sympathetic to this girl, don't feel sorry because people are hurling abuse at her; people should hurl abuse at her. She deserves to be abused for letting herself get to 34 stone. Face the cold hard facts of reality love; you're fat and disgusting and as soon as someone tells you that, you eat more; so you're pathetic as well. Why should the NHS pay for your operation when everything that's wrong with you is self inflicted?