After joining www.healthboards.com I am worried.
The obesity board, which I thought would be full of overweight people trying to make an effort to improve their health, sharing weight loss tips, concerns and triumphs, is in my opinion terrifying.
The title to a post that most concerned me was 'A breath of fresh air' by an individual with username 'fatandproud.' 'Fatandproud's outlook on life was: Obesity - 'It's a lifestyle. It's cool. It's the in thing. It's now.'
The disturbing fact here was that fatandproud does not seem to be alone and although he's from as far away as Arizona, US, I started to wonder if this new 'trend' had reached Britain.
Facebook, I thought, could help.
Sure enought it did. There were hundreds of obesity related groups and a large majority of them promoted obesity. Many were US based, but a worrying amount were started in the UK.
On particular group stood out: Couch Potatoing the best sport in the world. It had a catchline: "come join the sport that promotes equality peace and in some rare cases obesity." The group had about 50 UK members
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I really like the issue you have addressed here, as I have noticed a growing trend. But I want to know since when has it been cool to be fat? It seems it's either one or the other, you're either anorexic or obese. The western world needs to sort itself out, these groups are appalling.
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