Is People Magazine glorifying obesity or celebrating diversity?

[Anonymous]

Obesity is not healthy. period.

[Anonymous]

On another note, why do women get so vicious about their own weight and the weight of other women?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Type 2 diabetes is 100% a lifestyle (obesity) related disease.

What are your medical qualifications? Actual medical doctors disagree with you.

http://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/adults-who-are-normal-weight-at-time-diabetes-diagnosis-have-higher-rate-death-than-those-who-are-overweight-at-diagnosis/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obesity is not healthy. period.

this

it is also not nice to look at and before you all scream "you don't have to look at it" obviously we do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think glorifying morbidly obese is any better than glorifying super skinny. Neither is healthy. But I also don't believe in tearing people down because of their weight. Tess seems like a wonderful person and if she is happy, who am I to judge.

Her doctor should be judging her. Just because she "seems like a wonderful person" and "says" she is happy, does not make her a hero.

Is she calling herself a freakin' hero? Or did she just dare to grace the front cover of a magazine? I say good for her.

FWIW, no teenage girl is going to start porking out just because Tess is comfortable with herself. But maybe it will inspire some girls to be less bitchy about weight and body image. That would be nice.

The discussion point, which has obviously gone over your head, is whether or not People magazine (or any other pub for that matter) should be glorifying obesity. My answer to that is no. And by putting Tess on the cover, and giving her message of "fat acceptance" legs, they are doing that in some small fashion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obesity is not healthy. period.

Also not healthy, period:

1. Hating yourself because you're fat.
2. Sneering at other people because they're fat.

[Anonymous]

So many truly ugly people on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Type 2 diabetes is 100% a lifestyle (obesity) related disease.

What are your medical qualifications? Actual medical doctors disagree with you.

http://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/adults-who-are-normal-weight-at-time-diabetes-diagnosis-have-higher-rate-death-than-those-who-are-overweight-at-diagnosis/

One research study that other studies and common medical advice disputes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obesity is not healthy. period.

Also not healthy, period:

1. Hating yourself because you're fat.
2. Sneering at other people because they're fat.

Neither of those will kill you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The discussion point, which has obviously gone over your head, is whether or not People magazine (or any other pub for that matter) should be glorifying obesity. My answer to that is no. And by putting Tess on the cover, and giving her message of "fat acceptance" legs, they are doing that in some small fashion.

Putting a fat person on the cover "glorifies" obesity?

Did putting Philip Seymour Hoffman on the cover glorify dying from a drug overdose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obesity is unhealthy and should not be celebrated, just like any addiction.

Shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obesity is not healthy. period.

Also not healthy, period:

1. Hating yourself because you're fat.
2. Sneering at other people because they're fat.

Neither of those will kill you.

Obesity won't kill you either. People don't die of being fat. They may (or may not) die of conditions that are associated with obesity, but the association applies to populations, not to individuals. Non-obese people also die of heart disease, and there are obese people who don't die of heart disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think glorifying morbidly obese is any better than glorifying super skinny. Neither is healthy. But I also don't believe in tearing people down because of their weight. Tess seems like a wonderful person and if she is happy, who am I to judge.

Her doctor should be judging her. Just because she "seems like a wonderful person" and "says" she is happy, does not make her a hero.

Is she calling herself a freakin' hero? Or did she just dare to grace the front cover of a magazine? I say good for her.

FWIW, no teenage girl is going to start porking out just because Tess is comfortable with herself. But maybe it will inspire some girls to be less bitchy about weight and body image. That would be nice.

The discussion point, which has obviously gone over your head, is whether or not People magazine (or any other pub for that matter) should be glorifying obesity. My answer to that is no. And by putting Tess on the cover, and giving her message of "fat acceptance" legs, they are doing that in some small fashion.

Thank you, I am the OP and this is what I was hoping for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think glorifying morbidly obese is any better than glorifying super skinny. Neither is healthy. But I also don't believe in tearing people down because of their weight. Tess seems like a wonderful person and if she is happy, who am I to judge.

Her doctor should be judging her. Just because she "seems like a wonderful person" and "says" she is happy, does not make her a hero.

Is she calling herself a freakin' hero? Or did she just dare to grace the front cover of a magazine? I say good for her.

FWIW, no teenage girl is going to start porking out just because Tess is comfortable with herself. But maybe it will inspire some girls to be less bitchy about weight and body image. That would be nice.

The discussion point, which has obviously gone over your head, is whether or not People magazine (or any other pub for that matter) should be glorifying obesity. My answer to that is no. And by putting Tess on the cover, and giving her message of "fat acceptance" legs, they are doing that in some small fashion.

Don't worry, they'll be back to glorifying skinny, botoxed women next week and all the fatties will be put back in their place

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Type 2 diabetes is 100% a lifestyle (obesity) related disease.

What are your medical qualifications? Actual medical doctors disagree with you.

http://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/adults-who-are-normal-weight-at-time-diabetes-diagnosis-have-higher-rate-death-than-those-who-are-overweight-at-diagnosis/

One research study that other studies and common medical advice disputes.

Nobody disputes -- or, at least, nobody should dispute -- that there are non-obese people who develop Type II diabetes.