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- Don’t expect those who have made their careers on fomenting panic to understand that our current definition of “normal weight” makes absolutely no sense.
When the leading cause of death in our country is something other than cardiovascular disease, I'll be more receptive to this kind of talk. Even if we were to indulge the author and assume the current definition of obesity is too harsh, that your BMI can be as high as 35 without an increase in chance of death, I would still argue that people in the United States need to be skinnier - from a mental health standpoint. I don't like the idea of a country of people who are slaves to their appetites & are convinced it's not mentally harmful to overindulge on a regular basis. We already consume too much as is; why should we be made to feel like it's totally ok to do so?