Re: Is it immoral to be fat?
I have read all the posts on the thread and here's my take on it:
- If you are over weight/fat/obese due to unhealthy eating habits/excessive eating, I consider it immoral because 25,000 children are dying daily due to hunger,malnutrition and related diseases. Please note that I said daily and not weekly, monthly or yearly. How would you be able to justify your gluttony under the circumstances? 2.Obesity now kills 300,000 Americans per year and health-care costs associated with the disease top $100 billion annually. The World Bank has estimated that 12 percent of the U.S. national health-care budget is spent treating obesity. 3.Consider the following:
- Over 9 million people die worldwide each year because of hunger and malnutrition. 5 million are children.
- Approximately 1.2 billion people suffer from hunger (deficiency of calories and protein);
- Some 2 to 3.5 billion people have micronutrient deficiency (deficiency of vitamins and minerals);
- Yet, some 1.2 billion suffer from obesity (excess of fats and salt, often accompanied by deficiency of vitamins and minerals);
Decide for yourself what is moral and what is immoral.