The fact that Alton Brown is a marketer of the concept of food, that he’s making very good money off of the people he obviously dispises, makes it so much worse in my opinion.

First of all, “obese” people do not all stuff their faces and eat donuts and McDonald’s all day every day. With as much marketing as is directed at us to tell us how bad we are for being fat, do you really think there is a fat person in the world who doesn’t know what society thinks is “healthy” eating?

And being overweight is no less healthy than being skinny. There’s a notebook I have that illistrates the point: on the cover it has one of those “happy bunnies” (the type you see in places like Hot Topic) in a sweat soaked wifebeater, with a sweatband on it’s head, and a puddle of sweat under it. The caption reads: Exersize hard. Eat right. Die anyways.

The truth is, we are all going to die. The so-called “fat” diseases don’t affect only fat people. Diabetes, cancer, hypertension, heart attacks, strokes, high cholesterol, and more affect SKINNY/NORMAL weight people and fat people alike. Skinny/normal weight people die as often (and maybe more often if you believe some of the new studies coming out) from heart attacks and strokes as fat people do. So there goes the theory that being fat = being unhealthy.

For more information, I would direct you to the links on the sidebar, especially Junkfood Science. This is a blog run by a nurse, debunking most of the studies that come out by showing how they pull bait and switch tactics. She talks about how the so-called science that they (the studies) are feeding you are rigged, and she does it in a very scientific way.

And I would also direct you to Shapely Prose, especially this article: http://kateharding.net/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/ She says much better than I about how fat=/=unhealthy.