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Old 06-24-08, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by The Historian
I've seen dumber. I've even seen dumber in the flesh, so to speak. A 400 pound diabetic woman I know eats salad for lunch and binges on potato chips and candy between meals.

The comment about exercise being painful for folks over three hundred pounds shows the subject of the video buys lock, stock, and oversize barrel into the two most common myths in the US about the severely obese:

1 - they are sick and need to be treated as a sick person;
2 - they are helpless victims.

You, Ben, each and every day, smash those two statements beneath your wheels. God bless you for doing so.
I'm not the only one, this forum is chock full of examples of dietary mythbusters, so to speak. You, Tom, and any number of others who do it by simple willpower, common sense, and spinning the cranks.

But, I guess, that makes for boring TV?
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