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Nov 10, 2009
About 75 percent of America’s 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for military service: The reason: they are poorly educated, overweight and have physical ailments that make them unfit for the armed forces.
Embryo mix-up: Woman gives birth to a baby boy after being implanted with an embryo that wasn’t hers.
Fat pride: “The stigma is so heavy a burden that it took our community 40 years before it could go to Capitol Hill and lobby for ourselves.”
| Marilyn Wann, member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance Image credit: Heidi Schumann/The New York Times |
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Helium
November 10th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Just what we don’t need: an obesity lobby.
November 10th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Great photo.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I recently read an article that claimed a significant portion of Civil War enlistees (or conscripts) were unfit for duty because of disease, malnutrition and injuries suffered from the hard life many subsistence-farming families endured. Nowadays the “disability” is due to too over-eating and too much leisure that leaves recruits ill-prepared for the job. How things have changed in 145 years.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
The disgusting thing is that we are going to pay for that woman’s health care anyway. If she’s lobbying, you can bet she wants us to pay even more.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Why don’t we save the seniors and put her on the ice.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Love the photo.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Photo gives a whole new meaning to the term “tons of fun.”
November 12th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
NAAFA. Wow, instead of eating right and exercising, they just want everyone else to accept them as they are, so that in their heads they can go on thinking they’re leading a healthy lifestyle. Oh and if we could pick up their healthcare bills that would be the fair thing to do as well since we all encouraged them to get fat in the first place..