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Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes (!?) No, beauty does not come in all shapes and sizes. It's just an old saying to boost self worth and give people a hope for some recognition. Obese people are ugly. They are sort of pollution on the beauty horizon. Please don’t tell me there are civilizations where fat women are appealing. Please don’t tell me that the old masters never painted a skinny nude or angel. Please don’t tell me that we all are responsible for the life style which promotes overweight. And don’t tell me rising levels of obesity correlate with good things such as rising economic wealth. Hey, I don’t have a problem with smokers (well ... most of the time) and drinkers (when I join them), but I do have a problem with an obese person sitting next to me on a plane or bus or any- where for that matter. the graphs on the right are from Global obesity, An expanding world by The Economist online, Feb 7th 2011 The maps on the right, which are drawn from a global study led by M. Ezzati of Imperial College, London, and published in the Lancet, show that, Polynesia aside, obesity was a rich-world phenomenon in 1980. By 2008 the rich world had itself expanded, bringing obesity to groups within countries that were previously considered poor, such as Brazil and South Africa. During that period, the prevalence rate of obesity among men doubled to nearly 10%. One country has stubbornly resisted this trend: for all its dynamism since India opened up its economy in 1990, its men have on average become even thinner. The study suggests that Congo is the thinnest country in the world, and Nauru the fattest. |
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