Why does our culture confuse being thin with being healthy?

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thisisonlyatest

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Now, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with being thin, provided you got there the right way, by eating right and excising.

However, our culture seems to stress the ‘thinness’ as the goal, not ‘health.’ Powders, pills, quick fixes, fad diets, anorexia, bulimia and radical surgeries. It seems common sense would tell us that this not healthy, but our culture seems to be convinced that if your thin, you’re healthy, even if your not.

Why is this? Why can’t we just promote a healthy lifestyle rather then being ‘thin’? It seems like if we did that, then the ‘right’ weight would follow.
 
because of
1. the media
2. diet pills
3. advertising for diet pills and excersising machines
4. people look at it as - skinny=doesn't over eat, and consider that healthy
5. some people are just a little stupid
6. they listen to others
 
Correct analysis. Our county government is penalizing employees $500 per year for failing to maintain a BMI of 24.9, which is too thin for many athletic workers. Such standards only help perpetuate thinness standards disconnected from health. Actually, underweight individuals cause medical costs to rise more drastically than overweight conditions.
 
There's a lot of money in making people believe they have to lose weight. That's why being fat is promoted as being so terrible, and being thin as the ideal-the diet industry makes HUGE profits. It's really much better to be overweight and fit than thin and unhealthy. Do some research on this.
 
because people are stupid.
Seriously...they are.
You aren't. You know the truth. Please educate the masses! :)
 
Because, unfortunately, what's hard to get is always desired and admired. Back when food was scarce in the U.S., having extra fat was considered attractive, because it showed that you were wealthy and had a lot of food. Going along with this is tanning. When extra fat was desired, so was being pale, because poor laborers were the ones out in the sun all day getting tan.
 
Because it's about being beautiful over being healthy. I know I would certainly choose to be thin and fashionable over being healthy any day.
 
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