To think that fat people get unfairly bullied?

[Reallytired]

There are those who think that the NHS should not fund essential medical treatment.

It is OK to publically humilate children by weighing them in front of their class mates.

There is a total lack of decent clothes for fat adults and children. Believe that its particularly hard to find nice clothes for overweight children. Surely larger people deserve nice clothes?

And before you ask. I am 5 ft 6in and weight 9 st. I am lucky in that I don't put on weight easy. My slim figure is down to genetics and nothing to do with life choices.

We should accept everyone for who they are and not badger people into starving themselves make them miserable. The press seems to worthship the bodies of those who are so skinny that they are unhealthy. Its abnormal to be size 0.

People with fuller figures should be proud of their bodies and pressurised into attempting to be a totally unrealisic weight.

I'm waaay overweight and have never really pinned it down to dieting IYSWIM. I was normal sized all the way through childhood and my teens. Comments from my aunts when I was about 16/17 put me on my first diet and I now weigh far more than I ever did.

Of course I'm not saying it's not my fault and I am a greedy pig although my problem seems to be eating the wrong thing rather than too much overall (I'm a carbohydrate freak) but yes, I've been dieting all my adult life and I'm bigger than ever.

Am seeing my gp this week for advice.

i think that it's perfectly ok to be weighed and drawn attention to if there is a problem. When I was in school, we were weighed in case were were underfed, in which case the authorities were informed. This must have been o real humiliation to those parents who were genuinely deprived. If a child is fat these days, it is seen by many as a "lifestyle choice" and therefore acceptable, despite all the evidence pointing to the harmful effects of overeating. Fat people should accept that a fat child is likely to grow into a fat adult and that timely intervention when the child is young may help break the cycle of overeating. Fat children will be bullied anyway, so why not try to save them the aggro?