This is super late, but worth pointing out. ALL people are capable of being discriminated against on an interpersonal level. I can decide I don’t like you because you are ginger/tall/etc. BUT some forms of discrimination are FAR more prevalent than others. The likelihood that your wife will lose a job opportunity, lose a marriage prospect, be humiliated in public, be DEVALUED because of her thinness is far far less than it’s likelihood if she were 100lbs heavier-and every possible study done on discrimination and size confirms this. She would likely even make less money. Hell, I’m willing to bet you wouldn’t dare date/marry a woman near your size. To compare the two is highly simplistic and borderline offensive. I don’t doubt that those women give her shit if you say they do, but if you consider why-the unsavory and unspoken dynamic between women who have to compete when one is privileged and the other isn’t, it’s no surprise. NOT SAYING IT’S RIGHT. But it’s no surprise.

Or just GAGMEME for short.

Think the IRS would approve our application for charitable status?

It’s a bit disingenuous, however, to say that because 95 percent of diets fail, people cannot lose weight. Diets fail but permanent lifestyle changes based on science and medicine work. To act like people can’t lose weight is preposterous. Yes, diets don’t work. But that’s because people view diets as something temporary — lose the weight and go back to your previously unhealthy habits. Making a lifelong commitment to eating healthy and being active can make significant changes for people.

If most people just did two things that aren’t even dieting or changing what they eat, they would most likely weigh less: Be more active and eat organic. Most Americans move far too little. I wear a pedometer everyday and try to walk at least 10,000 steps (around 5 miles, but varies depending on stride length). This way, even if I don’t “work out,” I’m being active. We should strive to be active every day in some way.

There is a growing body of medical literature that says that pesticides on fruits and vegetables and antibiotics and hormones giving to cattle are endocrine disrupters. In layman’s terms, they are known as obesogens. They mess up your hormones, disposing you to weight gain, even if you otherwise eat healthy. There is a new book, The New American Diet, that talks about this subject.

And yes thin people can be and are discriminated against. While I am not personally thin (a big mountain man would be a more accurate description), my fiancee is thin. She constantly hears comments from her [female] coworkers about her weight and how she should eat more or have more cake at company functions. My fiancee eats plenty (mostly healthy food) and doesn’t have body issues, but many of her coworkers do not healthy food and have body image issues. Because of their own bitterness, they find it appropriate to make snide remaks to her. Remarks that would not be considered acceptable for a thin person to make to an obese one.

In fact, the very idea that any group of people could not be discriminated against is repugnant. Anyone can be discriminated against and the very idea that they could not be, is in fact itself discrimination.

Be healthy people..healthy manifests itself in many different ways.

But my guess is that you aren’t a doc, that you wrote what you did to stir up trouble and that you have no intention of coming back to read what others have written. Wow, great use of your time. Shouldn’t you be out “playing ball” vs. sitting at a computer, typing bigoted comments?