There's  a lot of medical illnesses and death caused by eating disorders too ...anorexia, binge eating, bulimia,, yo-yo dieting causing serious strokes, serious malnutrition, along with the dangers of other extreme dieting requiring  hours and hours of psychotherapy along with medical intervention. Focusing on the overweight would just increase these problems.

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I was about five years old and was dreaming about a poem I had read earlier - Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. I loved the part about the girl in the swing. I remember dreaming that I was swinging really high and then falling. I woke up abruptly in the middle of … Read more