Welcome to Sunday Morn Musings.  This is my weekly free fall – writing about whatever it is that occupies the mind on a Sunday Morn.  The idea of a “no topic” posting is the stepchild to a blog I used to write:  Four O’Clock Thursdays which is still up there if you want to check it out – more likely, I will repurpose and republish some of those posts here over time.  On Sunday Morn Musings the topic may be about blogging but just as likely it may not.

Social engineers are at it again.  As usual they employ semantics as their tool of choice and preach from the platform of political correctness.   They want us to think that “Big” is beautiful.  Read that as FAT is beautiful.

BALDERDASH!

Big is not beautiful and no amount of pressure by the fat brigade should make it so.  Shame on you, you scurrilous I’m Ok You’re OK evangelists.  You’re doing a disservice to the ever widening girth population you are championing and to society at large.

I’ve sat and tsk tsk’d  each year as the stats are rolled out on the percentage of the overweight .  I’ve watched the figures go from 30% something to now 58% in Canada and I would daresay that the US is holding its end (yes, pun intended) up very well. It’s no longer “overweight” but “overweight or obese” and just as the overweight stats kept climbing upwards, a casual eyeball survey of pedestrians at your favorite mall will confirm that obesity is definitely on the rise.

Now I’ll admit that I am not the svelte young lass I used to be and if truth be told, shaving off some of that avoirdupois would do me a lot of good.  To that end I have signed up at the local gym and take this bod for a walk on a daily basis.

This week I couldn’t take it anymore.

There I am catching a bit of TV and suddenly I am watching the ugliest image of a human body you could possibly imagine – rolls of fat cascading down the body of a young woman, the belly fold is now over her thighs and they are interviewing her!  I shake my head.  Did I hear right?

This woman is 600 lbs.

She eats over 12,000 calories a day.

She wants to reach 1000 – you read that right – 1000 lbs!

She isn’t just obese – there is something terribly wrong with her.  She needs a psychiatrist.  Shame on the media for pandering to the fat brigade and giving her her 15 minutes of fame.  I want to know, when she gets diabetes, heart problems and other weight related diseases, who is going to pay?  Should she fly – and god only knows how she would get herself to the check in counter let alone the airplane – will she demand 3 seats for the price of one or cry discrimination?

Watched the Academy Awards.  You know where I am going.  Now Gabourey Sidibe may be a talented young actor but she sure ain’t no poster child for a picture of health and for Oprah to congratulate the Academy for making a difficult choice – and we know she wasn’t referring to Gabourey being black, or a first time nominee, she was alluding to the less than Hollywood ideal body that Gabourey sports – was uncalled for, in fact irresponsible. We all know that the queen of the Kumbayah Society has herself had to deal with fat, but there she is giving her unspoken stamp of approval.

Then there is the perpetual whiner – Kirstie Alley, who it appears is an athlete and an actor, or at least she once was an athlete: a swimmer.  How she allowed herself to balloon from her svelte and admittedly sexy bod to 220 lbs is beyond me.    She became the spokeswoman for Jenny Craig but that gig didn’t seem to work out as intended so the contract was either cancelled or simply not renewed.  But get this, Kirstie is now going to have her own show, Big Life!   Yeah! Right!  This time she is going to lose weight and did I hear that?  Did she say that she is going to lose weight through a new system that she developed?   The trailers show her team of personal trainers and nutritionists. Now that’s a duplicatable system if I’ve ever seen one!  Give me a break!

The first time I became aware of the fattening of America was some ten years ago, it was in Florida at DisneyWorld.  I was taking a break from the hours of walking and took the opportunity to enjoy an ice cream cone under the welcoming shade of a tree.  First I noticed that there were a lot of overweight people.  Then it seemed as though I was witness to a fat parade – waves of overweight families; mother, father and children literally waddled by me with super sized pop drinks in one hand and a family sized bag of chips in the other- not for the family, but for each one.   It was not a pretty picture.

Yesterday I was at the butcher’s buying some meat.  I asked that he not trim the fat.  I find that unless it is a filet mignon fat makes the steak taste better, moreover, the medical profession has now reversed its previous position on fat.  In 2001 the Journal of the American College of Nutrition released a new finding

“…it is now recognized that the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence and may have caused unintended health consequences….”

This is not an article on the benefits of fat but dietary fat carries fat-soluble vitamins from your food into your body.  It helps maintain healthy hair and skin, protects vital organs, keeps your body insulated and provides a sense of fullness after meals.   Now don’t go bananas and start eating lots of fat, a little of something good does not mean that a lot of it is better.

The butcher’s wife was there at the time that I asked for my sirloin intact with the cap.  She laughed.  Apparently the message from the College of Nutrition hasn’t filtered down to everyone yet as she told me that their clientele almost always wants all the fat trimmed off the meat, and then she sees those same people, with children in tow at the local MacDonalds – yeah!  Supersize that order and yes to the French fries.

Ads are always a good indication of how successful the social engineering campaigns on anything are.  Have you noticed that ads now include not only a normal sized human, but often a fat (not overweight, I mean FAT) person?  The ad companies will defend that as saying that they are merely mirroring society.  Well that’s a damn poor mirror and the message it’s sending is that hey, its OK to be fat.

We have all read about the implications that being fat will have on the overall health of a human.  Today is a critical day in the US.  Obama’s crusade to implement universal health care is up for approval by the senate.  Should it pass, have no fear, those that develop weight related diseases at an early age will not have to worry about their health care, the government will look after them, rolls of belly fat cascading down their bodies and all.

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