Rhetoric 1101

Reponse to Lamm Essay

I thought the article was refreshing, fun to read. Some articles, it's like agonizing torture to follow along with, but Lamm moved gracefully from one thing to another keeping the readers attention with some less than angelic words and expressions.

Personally, I have had phases were I was 'overweight,' by clinical standards and I've had numerous friends that were considerably overweight, I guess if one thing comes to mind from my experiences are that no two bodies are the same, no two bodies respond to diet or exercise the same, no two bodies lose weight or gain weight quite the same, so to make statements like "fat people (in general) are never going to be able to lose weight, deal with it, I'm fat and that's who I am," is kind of a cop-out in my opinion, I mean, I've been 40, 50 pounds heavier than I today and it times it did feel like I was going to be stuck that way forever, but obviously that wasn't the case.

There are proven medical risks to being overweight, and it's intuitive, having to carry more weight around puts more stress on your body, your heart, lungs, everything, and you do feel lazy because you're tired from just carrying all that extra weight around everywhere you go. I think Erin brought up a good point, if you don't want to starve yourself, fine, then exercise. So many people are so dramatic, it's like binge or starve.

I think our society is very orientated around looking good, and looking good involves being trim. In this day and age, most people aren't concerned with having enough fat on their bodies to survive the next week in the event no one kills a mammoth or not. Media plays a huge role, you can watch E entertainment television any time of day and hear all about who looks good and who doesn't. In terms of a revolution, there are more obese people, and especially children this day and age already.