for health reasons, but calling them greedy
and blaming them for global warming will
not help anyone. I appreciate your obvious
concern for the health of Americans,
but I would suggest a kinder and more
compassionate approach to your crusade.
Kendra Lady
Eugene
DISGUSTING LETTER
I never throw up. Well maybe when
I’ve had way too much to drink which I
definitely felt like doing when I read that
disgusting letter Feb. 18 by the svelte
model Amanda Franca who is apparently
too thin to land a modeling job in France.
Perhaps her problem could be solved if she
added some fat and carbs to her diet.
She makes several assumptions that
are a bit of a stretch, like suggesting that
all overweight people are addicted to red
meat. A valid point can be made that over-
consumption of meat in the American
diet is responsible for a host of problems
including poor health, environmental
degradation, global warming, animal abuse
and, yes, along with over-consumption of
simple carbs, obesity.
According to my BMI I am classified
as obese because my 5-foot, 11-inch frame
is carrying 230 pounds. I am, however,
in good health and eat a fairly healthy
diet consisting of organic vegetables and
“good” meat. I am deeply offended by this
attack on fat folks as if they are the cause
of our environmental crisis.
Ms. Franca seems to have a problem
with fat people and was apparently
disgusted with the idea that they could
have a positive image of themselves as
fully functioning humans. What I find
disturbing in our increasingly acrimonious
society is that this kind of bigotry keeps
cropping up like poisonous weeds.
David Bersch
Eugene
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have a meat addiction, as there are plenty of
slender meat eaters and obese vegetarians
in the world, and there are other things that
can lead to obesity (plus, BMI is a poor
way to measure health).
Though I am far from a scientist, it
seems that blaming fat people for climate
change would be ignoring dozens of other
factors that contribute to the problem. You
say we are now “supposed” to be attracted
to such people, but nowhere in the Feb. 11
article did it state, “You must be sexually
attracted to fat people.” It simply suggested
that women shouldn’t feel ashamed of their
bodies while having sex.
Yes, some people need to lose weight
hear ye,
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