Word: overweighting
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...comments were imagined with a hateful vengeance that automatically de-humanized any overweight person into a slothful, greedy, wasteful marauder. They were inconsiderate lazy blobs, who ate poorly and were killing themselves daily. And I hated them. All of them...
Given my antipathy for the overweight, many were surprised when they heard about my summer plans: staying in Cambridge to volunteer at an afternoon program teaching fitness and nutrition to obese children. “You’re working at a fat camp?!” was almost everyone’s shocked response...
...referred to us from their local hospital as pediatric obesity cases. Also, all of them are minorities—black or Latino. Obesity among the young, especially young minorities has been steadily increasing. According to the Center for Disease Control, where some one in four white children are overweight today, for black and Hispanics the rate is one in three. And that blacks and Latinos are more often poorer than mainstream America does not help their situation...
...that being overweight is ok. The slew of health factors (heart disease stroke, type II diabetes) have devastating effects on the body, effects which are often amplified when obesity strikes at such a young...
...understanding financial constraints and physical environments of many an overweight person makes former ignorant fat-people-haters like me more committed to finding viable weight loss and healthy lifestyle solutions for these kids...