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To: jwalburg
Americans are obsessed with fat because fatness has become a symbol for poverty, downward mobility, nonwhiteness and socially marginal status in general.

No, fatness is a symbol of low or no self-esteem, no motivation, and no self-control. There's a fairly simple solution: eat less and exercise more. And no one can convince me that a bag of apples (or whatever fruit is in season) costs more than a box of sugary and fat-laden candy bars (and I loooooove chocolate).

5 posted on 09/21/2007 9:58:44 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: hsalaw

That’s the Mike Huckabee diet, I understand. Eat an apple every day.


7 posted on 09/21/2007 10:00:01 PM PDT by jwalburg (Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. What does that say about schools?)
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“No, fatness is a symbol of low or no self-esteem, no motivation, and no self-control.”

Good god, the more I read FR on these topics the more I wonder what happened to the idea that conservatives were _less_ likely to adopt psychobabble bullsh*t.


46 posted on 09/21/2007 11:49:38 PM PDT by Sandreckoner
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Got to wonder if Rush has a low self-esteem and self control? Does his weight make him a loser? I think not. He's probably more motivated than a hundred skinny people and he's got the money to prove it.

68 posted on 09/22/2007 8:17:12 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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