Response: Susan Powter and "The Right To Fat Girls"

Such a loaded issue, but I do think there was a valid point through all of the disrespectful language....

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[michaeldalland]

I like your way of thinking!

[freshorangina]

Thanks. :)

[dbaseII]

Kolata is a science editor of the NY times and can do the research - she cites studies in peer reviewed journals as does Gaesser and a bunch of scientists who refute the "great obesity threat". My friend was talking about ALL surgeries. The modern ones are not safer than the older ones - (except the lap band which IS safer) - the RNY is just less annoying in the short run as far as diarrhea etc.

[freshorangina]

Your arguments don't make any sense to me. Are you trying to say that childhood obesity rates are not linked to childhood type II diabetes?? Is diabetes a healthy condition? Why did you bother to do weight watchers? Is a lap band healthier if it adheres to your liver or if it slips? Does open RNY have the same complication rate as laparoscopic RNY? Do you even know what surgery I had, and the stats on safety and complications? Research does not equal a medical degree.

[onyX716]

I don't believe comments such as Howards will get her to that point any sooner & it was just plain disrepectful which TAKES AWAY from ANY valid points he May have had...

[freshorangina]

I agree, but at the same time it did get this whole discussion started....

[1958boomergirl]

@freshorangina Of the three videos in response to Susan Powter & howard Stern & their rant concerning "fat girls" that I watched this afternoon & evening, yours is by far the best yet. Pardon the choice of words here, but this video has given its viewers plenty of food for thought. I certainly appreciate the effort that must've gone into the physical setup and into your oral essay. Thank you for uploading this. :)

[Trixiaoyu]

3 mins into your video and I love the way you STRUGGLE to find the right words to 'defend' Gabby S. That just shows that you can't. I shall stop watching now, accept the reality. Does Gabby really have to die from Obesity at the age of 40 before you people help her?

[IreFlaUne]

@xbubloox

Maybe I missed it and I'm not doubting you . . .but did anybody say that? I certainly don't think that way. Obesity has huge physcial and emotional complications related to it. I think if anybody disagreed that then they would be in serious denial.

[xbubloox]

You guys are still kind of missing the point. It is in no way HEALTHY to be morbidly obese.

[IreFlaUne]

@dbaseII

Lapband safer to whom? I doubt that the gastric bypass surgery I will be having this year can be any worse or do any more to be than the lapband has.

To say that modern surgeries are no more dangerous than older ones is kind of an insult to the people who died as a result of those surgeries.

[freshorangina]

AMEN! I feel the same way, but in a way I am glad Stern brought it up, or it would not be something we would be talking about right now and I think the discussion is important. :)