Comment Comment by VirtualAirwaves In the United States, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death, with estimates as high as 300,000 deaths/year.(See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html )Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year(See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 )Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese.It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poisonous snake bites and spending 15 minutes on automobile safety. parent VirtualAirwaves 9 years ago
(See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html )
Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year
(See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 )
Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese.
It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poisonous snake bites and spending 15 minutes on automobile safety.