Hiralious

People, in the end, recognize a wrong attitude prevalent in society and more often than not, in a bid to do good they overcompensate and go completely overboard with the opposite attitude . A common consciousness has arisen against the appearance of anorexic models on ramps and in tabloids. Many big names of the fashion industry are openly shamed for hiring skeletal models to sell their products. At the same time, there is an emergence of 'miss. fat contests' and appearance of overly obese women in tabloids, wearing trendy clothes and saying something heroic about their struggle with body image .Lets set off an alarm here. Lets draw a line between our efforts to end the obsession of people with their body image and recogizing facts as facts. As much as starvation is unhealthy for people, the side effects of the obesity epidemic are not in any way, less alarming . Calling obese beautiful, or promoting it in any way, is as unhealthy as promoting anorexia . Obesity is directly related to an Increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, which are interlinked, and are very likely to be a cause of your death. You are going to die anyway and there will always be a cause, but unhealthy habits and over-eating will bring it upon you prematurely. They will shorten your life span.
Perhaps the word that actually pops up in our minds when we see an obese lady on a magazine cover is 'fat', maybe we juggle our options in our minds, squish our words in our mouths and gurgle 'beautiful' with strained effort. Perhaps we should rid ourselves of the word 'beautiful' and the need to judge everyone ( or the need to fit everyone in this category). Perhaps we need to focus upon the fact that there is more to a human being than what meets the eye.
Meanwhile, It's counterproductive to resort to one extreme to mitigate the effects of the other. Health risks should be seen as health risks, and voluntary adoption of these risks shouldn't be glamorized on media. On both ends of spectrum!