I was SHOCKED yesterday to see a show on MSNBC addressing this issue. At first I thought it was diabetics that drank their OJ .. then 5 minutes later threw it up after it worked. But this is far worse.

They interviewed several women and the mother of one woman who’d died.

People with Type I diabetes, those forced to take insulin are skipping their shots to LOSE WEIGHT.

One of the girls they were interviewing said that she was MORE afraid of being fat than she was of DYING. What is wrong with this picture????

Have we become so obsessed with what the MEDIA shows us a “normal” that we are willing to risk our very life to live up to that expectation?

Here is the complete article as published by MSNBC. What is amusing is they have a “kicker” headline that says: “Experts advise docs to be blunt, call kids ‘obese’ ” I find the irony here very amusing.

On one side we have women so obsessed with their weight they are willing to DIE or worse — a coma, loss of limbs, eyesight etc to stay thin. We aren’t talking like a size 10 or 12 which as we all know IS a decent weight. They want to be a size 5, 3 or 0. In a ‘related’ article “experts” from the American Academy of Pediatrics saying doctors should be BLUNT in saying that kids are FAT/OBESE.

How about this for an idea?? Lets try being BODY positive whether someone is a natural size 0 or a natural size 22. If you FEEL good about yourself you are going to BE healthy.