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Hi Kim,
I’ve heard a few of the discussions that you’ve had on the show in the past couple of days regarding obesity. While I do believe that it is a major problem in America that should be addressed nationally, I don’t feel that your views are very empathetic at times. In the post above, you draw a direct parallel between a woman in a bad relationship and a woman who eats chocolate cake to the point of obesity. So should the single, lonely, or “hostages” of bad relationships be denied employment, and charged higher insurance premiums for their poor choices? Depression causes many of the same health risks and problems that are associated with obesity. In fact, depression can lead to obesity, and vice-versa.
This is a complex issue, and an important one, but I would suggest that people that do not struggle with obesity try to relate it to something that they do struggle with, i.e. unhealthy relationships or any similar activity that causes physical and/or mental health issues. Some of us have better “metabolisms” for the effects of single living, loneliness, and pursuing bad relationships than others, just like people that have better metabolisms when it comes to eating, and therefore do not gain the same weight / baggage that those with lesser metabolisms do. We could all use a better focus on improving our health issues, but I don’t think that strategies based upon penalization such as higher insurance premiums and denial of employment help as much as they might compound the problems. Being obese, unemployed, and unable to afford insurance premiums is worse for your health and harder to dig yourself out of than just being obese.
Comment by Erica — August 19, 2009 @ 8:23 pm
i agree with the not being exclusive while simply dating! i wish more agreed with us! i have dated more then one guy and a time and my friends and family acted like it was the worst thing in the world to do and was as bad as cheating. how can you cheat if you are not exclusive in the first place? so frusturating. thanks for your blog, good to see someone else thinks the same.
Comment by amy — November 2, 2009 @ 7:37 pm