Surgeon General: Healthy & Fit

"I want to change the conversation from a negative one...to a positive conversation about being healthy and fit."

Dr. Regina Benjamin is the United States Surgeon General.

http://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral

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[futureboycolin]

This is a joke right?

[TheSweetestSerenity]

she's not fat...she is "healthy and fit" according to her new standards....what a joke!

[natureboy4hm]

@klsabin please provide references for your claim of losing more than 10% body weight "increases mortality and morbidity" because common sense tells me otherwise along with a plethora of research; National Institute of Health is one source that says losing 10% can prevent or delay diseases associated with obesity. Also you might want to reconsider prioritizing what you should worry as a fat woman because chronic cultural misinformation will not kill you...high BP, heart disease, & diabetes will

[KK96703]

Why don't we have some "fun" by you telling the American public where they can get the potassium iodide pills that you think, as America's Family Doctor, that we should all have???

[entropyfu]

@askanerdgirl Logical fallacy: appeal to authority.

[EverywhereVirtually]

@hughtub the most sense written in this comments section. You should be the surgeon general. Then all those cereal companies and corn producers would go bust. As a consequence they wouldn't be able to control our eating habits with cheap grains, addictive sugars and high salt content. Drat.

[entropyfu]

@cutebruiser1 spoken like a true fatty.

[entropyfu]

@flitterella yes, she may have a PhD but she is also fat/borderline obese. And Wrong.

[SWEP2AOTC2002]

@klsabin The well meaning obamas? Dont you find it funny how this at woman is telling you it is ok to be at then you have michelle obama telling you how her own kids are fat and need to straighten themselves out? Its more nonsense coming from this regime and denial and ignorance coming from you

[marneedear]

She's a political mouthpiece spewing the most recent expediencies. It's ridiculous. It's nonsense, and worse, it's wrong and drops so much context to be laughable. Why can't you people see this? I've been obese. I was not fit nor healthy.  I don't know a single obese person who got fat by eating healthy foods and exercising. Don't kid yourselves!