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Today is one of those days that I am not sure what to write about. Usually when I get like this I have a lot on my mind and the only way to get back to regularly scheduled blogging I just have to type until my fingers stop.

A few days ago I read on Big Fat Blog about the video and song Skinny by the group Low Rider and it brought up the question is the song making fun of fat women. In doing some looking around after reading the original post I came across a comment that said the ladies where on the “positive side of being fat”. Kind of like the video was a necessary evil. At least thats what I got from it. Considering that I see nothing but positive period when it comes to ladies and gentlemen that are fat I don’t fully understand the context in which the comment was made.

Last week on Insider there was a segment featuring Mo’Nique and some plus size ladies dealing with issues ranging from bulimia to one lady that had gastric bypass surgery, two tummy tucks, and liposuction yet still felt she was overweight. The challenge that Mo’Nique put forth for the ladies had to do more than with losing weight, it dealt with mental, spritual as well as physical challenges. In other words worry more about your health than your size.
plus size model Chenese Lewis was among the ladies taking the challenge and the only one that appeared to not have a problem with her size. She embraced her size while realizing that her health was very important. Health is something that is important no matter what a persons size is and for that I applaud the efforts of Mo’Nique and all the ladies that where involved in the challenge.

Whenever I read an article that talks about the health risks of being fat I must admit that I approach it from the point of view that I won’t read much that relates to sensible information.

After reading up on the risk of belly fat in children in the US, and how, “Nearly one in five American children grew big enough around the middle to be considered abdominally obese by 2004, a 65 percent increase in belly fat over just six years,”, it makes me wonder about the validity of some of the health concerns that are being talked about by the medical community, which for the most part I have dismissed.

I was just reading the Good, the bad and the Ugly on Fat Chicks Rule, which lead to an msn health report on obesity in America. A twenty year study was conducted by the Center for Disease control showed a progressive timeline of states where its citizens have an average BMI of 25. Seeing that my home state of Arkansas is one of the high risk areas makes me wonder is the money that is being spent on the health initiative proposed by our Governor Mike Huckabee is working. It also makes me wonder about the CDC results considering how they also reported last year that skinny people die sooner than fat people.
This also brings me back to a conversation that I had a few days ago with a long time friend. I have the utmost respect for her opinion on different topics. We were discussing obesity as a choice. As a plus size woman herself she feels that it’s wrong that people in excess of 400lbs should want the world to change around them when they are not willing to push away from the table and get some exercise to lose weight. The only concession she was willing to give was to those people who are “medically fat” or used to be skinny but now they are fat. These individuals would be given a “fat card” that would allow them certain perks that those that are just plain old fat wouldn’t get.