On our last morning in Utah I picked up a copy of the Salt Lake City Tribne and was appalled (but not shocked, alas) to read an editorial based on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report mentioned a few days ago. Its concluding paragraph:
If you're "F" as in fat, you'll be "D" as in dead.
Talk about scare tactics. . . .
I haven't done a search, but I wonder how many other newspapers picked this up and ran with it.
Strange wording he used!
ReplyDeleteWonder if he thinks that people who fall in between the lines on the charts don't die? Never? They just keeping walking. : ) Now that's a scary thought!
Did you ever notice they never use the word "whopping" quite so much as in an article about the Big Scary Obesity Epidemic?
ReplyDeleteSo if you are thin, you live forever??
ReplyDeleteIf my choices are:
ReplyDeleteA for Asshole
B for Bastard
C for something FAR too rude to say in most company
D for Dead
F for Fat
... I'll take my chances with Fat, thanks.
Thanks for posting this, Harriet. I took the time to register on the paper's Web site, and I posted a reply pointing out, as the comments above do, that we'll all eventually be D for dead.
ReplyDeleteF as in Fat, K as in Knee-Jerk
ReplyDelete... but what about the U and the C?
(and the Y-O-U-S-A-L-T-L-A-K-E-C-I-T-Y-T-R-I-B-U-N-E)
How about "Whoever said this is "I" as in ignorant"?
ReplyDeleteThere was quite a lot of the use of the word "whopping." It's a great word, but not in this context.
Fillyjonk,
I'll leave someone of higher mental capacity than I to take on your challenge. ;)
Gee, what wisdom. But I have breaking news for this guy:
ReplyDeleteWe're. All. Going. To. Die.
Fat people haven't cornered the market on this one. Or did I miss a memo?
So fear of fat wards off mortality. Thinness is the fountain of youth, while fat is an express elevator down.
ReplyDeleteThat would explain some of the hysteria.