I agree with u in some things u said in your reply .but eating disorders are not just with over weight people .The health problems you mentioned also happen to men and woman and evan children .when they are to thin and under weight.women and young girls today think the main thing in there life is to look good and this includes seeing food as some thing that makes them fat and unhealthy evan fruit and a healthy diet so they starve themselfs..its all this glossy magazine stuff that woman and young girls look at or famous woman that look more skeltons with skin coving there bones than healthy attractive woman that makes so many young girls and woman ill and there is so much pressure for woman to look a certain way in the world we live in to day ...i think eating a healthy diet and excercising and drinking enough water through the day is healthy but in todays world people just don,t make the time to sit down and eat a healthy dinner.so it ends up either u under eat or over eat the wrong foods that has so many people with eating disorders ..as a trained staff nurse i see alot of young girls with eating disorders may it be under weight or over weight which is very sad to see as some of them are as 8yrs old ..it is very sad to see that the world we live in has so many people ill because we are suppose to look a certain way ..we are all different in many ways as in personality ..sense of humour ..looks ..the way we view the world ..and other people....i think people should just be accepted for the person they are .And in a relationship i think people should look in side a person before they judge a book for its cover as the story inside could be completly different ..some of what you wrote was very true .but i think you left out that people that under eat have the same problems that people that over eat have .so its finding a healthy balance for your hight and bone struture..i think personaly a woman with a bit of meat on her bones is far more attravtive ..but everyone is intitieled to there own opinions ..this is just mine
Broadway_Baby: There are big, Big, BIG and B I G.
It depends what people mean when they say "big."
A person who is, say, 30lbs overweight may consider themselves as big, and someone 200lbs overweight may too.
A potential partner may not just consider the aesthetical aspect, but what is also more important are the physical aspects. The scale range of obese to the upper end of super super morbidly obese is wide. There are health problems to consider. For instance obesity can, but obviously not always, can lead to uncontrolled diabetes, cancer, liver damage etc. A person may love someone but has to consider that their partner may not be healthy now or in the years to come. Super obesity makes practical things difficult too. For just a few examples restaurant chairs in some places may break under the strain, theatre seats don't allow much room for normal sized people let alone obese people, public transport seating may not be wide enough, leaving the person sitting next to the obese person sitting with one buttock on the seat and one buttock hanging in mid air.
Severe obesity is sometimes a psychological illness. Junk food and convenience food is addictive.