Stop lecturing fatties – it’s really not their fault

I’ve noticed for some time now that thin people, genuinely slim ones, have a secret loathing of fatties. Kindly though they may otherwise be, the sight of rolls and overhangs, jowls and bulges, makes them angry. One extremely thin woman I know finds it hard, she told me, even to have fat friends.

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TaggedDiet, fat, Food, genetics, Health, Modern manners, obesity, Public health

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Stop lecturing fatties – it’s really not their fault

The thin don’t have better morals or stronger willpower. Genetically, they don’t feel the same temptation

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