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weight =/= health.
It's something I've always believed in. Just cause a person is over/under weight, it doesnt mean they are unhealthy. obviously there are cases of both in the extreme but thats another point altogether.
If anyone has never heard of Pen and Teller: Bullshit, lemme tell you.
Pen and Teller are the fat man/mute man comedy duo who landed their own show on showtime a couple years ago, exposing common and popular misconceptions, myths, and beliefs in our society.
and they tackled the subject of weight in one of their shows.
PnT: BS
you will have to navigate unfortunately because tvlink is a beeyotch!
go to shows and then Pen and Teller: Bulls**t (their weight episode is titled Obesity)

while not exactly scientific in their approach when the physcially test the whole weight = health idea in the fat guy olympics. i believe they do prove a point in this episode.
and for all of us that love boobies...theres a breast hysteria episode as well.... (NOT WORK SAFE! and since it was on showtime...its an +18 episode...not my fault if you get caught or even watch it. sweatdrop ) heart

and then it got me thinking about truths, urban legends and what not.

obviously to put in disscussion:
what are some things you believe/ed to be true but later found out to be false?
urban legends? (missing an kidney xd gonk )
conspiracies?
your thoughts on health and weight..
anything else that pretains to the topic so it doesnt get locked up.

sorry for the block of text but i like to type obviously....and i like stimulating peoples minds sweatdrop

Heh. Interesting.
I think people should stop caring about the health of people they don't know. If they don't care to stop what they're doing, that's their choice. Leave it at that. The people at that scientific meeting pissed me off.
Anyway, I'm considered healthy but have an "unhealthy" weight. But if I wasn't healthy, I still don't think I would do anything about it. That would be my choice. I don't complain about myself, others shouldn't complain about me either.

I'm a big fan of Urban legends. Love finding out if they're real or not.

Time for breakfast. 3nodding