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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
Not to seem harsh, but your first paragraph really is BS. It's unfortunate that most people do not understand that not everyone is built the same way, but your justification is almost hilarious, and if I were a large person, I would probably feel insulted if my counter-defense for being big is that I can survive bad weather, just like whales.
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That may be taken as offensive indeed, but that doesn't alter the truth of the argument, one way or the other. We human beings are animals and whether you like it or not, we are genetically identical to our homosapien Stone Age ancestors. Despite living in technologically advanced societies complete with various supermarkets, trains, cars, elavators and lifts we have not physically changed from being hunter-gatherers who had to endure shortages of food. Consequently, we are naturally inclined look for fat, sugar, starch and salt, because, prehistorically speaking, these things were very hard to find. So, when we see them in great amounts, our bodies find it tough to say "no".
Fat collects in two forms -
White adipose tissue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stored for energy and insulation.
Combine that with people living in colder climates, whereby heat is also a scarce commodity, then fat is very valuable indeed; especially brown fat which can be burned by the body to produce heat.
Brown adipose tissue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is increasingly well understood by the scientific community.
The differences between how we have evolved, and the amount of food we have access to now is at the very heart of the issue. Evolutionarily speaking, we aren't different to our Neolithic ancestors, who didn't have access to McDonalds and if they did, they'd be fucking huge.
This is a good book to get started -
Amazon.com: Waistland: The R/evolutionary Science Behind Our Weight and Fitness Crisis (9780393062168): Deirdre Barrett: Books
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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
The "too skinny" argument is also pretty crappy. Being too skinny can cause health complications, but we're talking almost malnourished people, on average. Whereas someone can be as low as 15-25 lbs overweight and already begin to enter dangerous territory.
I like to use the "Money doesn't buy you happiness" analogy. I happen to disagree with that statement. The reason being, for every one filthy rich person you can find that's unhappy, I can find 1,000 impoverished people who are just as unhappy. Just as you can find one person who is skinny to the point of health complications, and I can find you 1,000 people who are pre-diabetics or worse. It's all relative.
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Not sure about the money happiness thing, I'm afraid you lost me there... Being too skinny does cause serious health complications if you're anorexic or bolemic, something which the fashion industry does seem to some extent encourage. This is similarly well understood -
Fashion industry 'fuelling the rise in eating disorders' - Telegraph
Eating Disorders Somehow Still Occuring In Fashion Industry
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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
As for changing the market to fit bigger people, would this be a positive or a negative? All things equal, most large people are fat, not just "big boned." So would we be encouraging the idea that it is OK to be fat, and that you'll be rewarded with alternative clothing styles no matter how much weight you want to put on? All while isolating the "small" crowd and simple reversing the roles?
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Fat isn't always unhealthy -
Obese people not always unhealthy - Telegraph
That's not the whole point, it's an economic issue as much as anything else, though skinny people can be just as unhealthy -
Fat risk even if you are healthy weight - Telegraph
My point was this, to be a successful company you need to sell products, if you want to sell lots of products then why restrict your product range to within a certain size when large proportions of the population exist outside of that size.
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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
It's unfortunate that your sister was bullied though, especially if she wasn't even that big to begin with. People's perception of what qualifies as being big is starting to become skewed.
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Cheers mate, but that's the reality girls have to live with today...