BAHRAIN’S climate and lifestyle is not always conducive to staying slim and healthy, as many of my overweight friends claim. But walking is free. Sitting eating all day in front of daytime TV is the problem.
Although I agree increased stress can be a factor, there is a great deal of stress involved in knowing you look and feel gross and that it’s all your own fault.
If we make obesity an illness, we will only encourage those unwilling or unable to make the effort to change their lifestyles in order to regain a life and they will continue to believe it’s something or someone else’s fault that they are gross.
Online fashion stores have a lot to answer for as well. I have noticed in recent months that grossly obese models are regularly included in the catalogues, making the obese believe it is natural to look as they do.
The overweight girls are probably reasonably healthy while they are young but will, in later life, succumb to the inevitable healthy issues all fat people suffer from. None of it is easy.
But it’s up to the individual. I’m sure my letter will prompt the minuscule proportion of people who are really overweight due to an illness to be up in arms at my comments.
But until we start telling the truth, this problem will escalate.
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