Obesity..

I was reading this article on obesity, and how it was talking about how pushing obese people to exercise is counter-productive. I agree, to a point yes, it is. Abusing people because of how they look, how much they weigh etc etc, is wrong. I accept that.


But, there is a point where I have to disagree. If a doctor, who has a clinically obese person in their care, and doesn't say "hey listen, if you keep this up, you are only going to live 5 more years", if that person dies in five years, the first person that gets the blame is the doctor. Lawsuits ensue and then boom, doctors are more afraid to talk to their patients.


What I can't comprehend, is that if someone is obese and is unhappy with it, they eat more, get more obese rinse and repeat. Where, or when does that little voice in the back of your head fire, and say.. Hey, I am dying here, help me, let's do this!"? I honestly, just can't fathom this. Where is the point, that you say enough is enough. If someone was hitting you, sooner or later you give in and hit back, fight, or attempt to survive long enough to get assistance. Yet, when we abuse our own bodies, we are okay with it, yet as soon as the help arrives in someone saying, you are unhappy, why are you doing this, people take it as an assault on their freedoms. Yes, I know a lot of people are not nice about it. I have been on the receiving end of it as well. I can now say, that I have taken my shirt off in public during the heat MANY times in the last few years, yes, even when I weighed 175lbs much of that being belly fat, and was good with people looking at my back, after many years of abuse from normals, but you know what, if there was an exercise I could do, or a diet I could go on to correct it, I would be all over it like a bear over salmon. I would work my arse off to achieve flatback status, just so I could go swimming without drowning, to show off my hidden eight pack... it is only a 4 and a bit pack due to scoliosis, but fuck, I would do it in a heartbeat.


Which gets me to the point. There is nothing standing in the way of someone who is obese due to poor living habits other than themselves. I sympathise with them more for not finding that inner fire to do something about it than anything else. It amazes me, the things that we will do to ourselves, and allow others to enable us to do ourselves, yet we get our pets checkups, give them the right food, make sure they have room to run around in to burn off their energy, get angry at people feeding infants unhealthy food, yet, we don't get angry at ourselves. Humanity is fucked up. We have become so used to a life of comfort, instant gratification and ease of access to just about everything going on around us, that we have become nothing more than a bloated plague of wasps devouring every source of food around us, while others starve or struggle to find clean water. That in itself is cruelty and abuse.


Yes, these are not what people want to hear, but really folks, we only have ourselves to blame for things that happen to us, when we have the ability to stop it with a concious thought or action. No-one but ourselves.