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The Dartmouth
May 15, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth

The Fat Fight Back

To the Editor:

Before publishing such rubbish as Timothy Mosso's "America Bulks Up," maybe you should check your facts. BigFatBlog.com is not affiliated with NAAFA in any form or fashion other than some BFB readers are members of NAAFA. Also, there is nothing easy about being fat today or 50 years ago, but it's the last accepted prejudice, so it's "O.K." to make a fat person's life miserable.

The size of my body is not your business. I pay my taxes, work, attend graduate school, go to the gym four to five times per week ... I even brush my teeth like the rest of the world. I weigh over 300 lbs.

Oh yeah, and I'm healthy ... normal in everything from blood pressure to joints to cholesterol. Try better research, like starting with the Cooper Institute's research that shows that fat people and thin people have the same life expectancy if they exercise and eat right.