Going Green - A Fat Person's Guide To A More Beautiful Environment

If you’re overly sensitive or prone to fits of political correctness stop reading… now.

A lot has been made about going green, green buildings, green homes, green cars, etc… and quite frankly if it wasn’t so damn annoying it would border on the ridiculous. Because absent from the great “go green” propaganda machine’s output is the most important element that should be green.

Us. Humans. People. You and me. We should all “go green” in our own bodies – and here’s where it gets unpopular.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – if you are obese or morbidly obese you are disgusting to people who are not. If you have to purchase two airline seats and both of them are for you, you are a fat disgusting pig; and we are staring at you and we are disgusted by you.

Unpopular? Insensitive? Not politically correct? Sure. True? Yes.

You see, I’m just saying (again) what other people are thinking. If you are fat – whether you choose to believe it or not – you are seen by non-fatties and fit people as disgusting. What’s the solution? Two words: go green.

Environmentalists will tell us that “going green” will save the environment and reduce or eliminate greenhouse gases - in spite of the fact that there, to this day, is no definitive or conclusive data supporting that notion.

Regardless, I’ll take going green one step further. So, fat people: go green with your bodies and save your lives.

There IS definitive data supporting the notion that if humans “go green” within their own bodies they can in fact reverse the damage they’ve done by stuffing their gobs with garbage, and they can make their self-contained systems a healthier place. They can save their own physiological environment – their own world...their own lives.

You see, scientists can prove that if you are a fat, pie-eating, soda-swilling, gravy-sucking, candy-munching, vegetable-dodging, couch-lounging, do-nothing, slug you will die – or at the very least run a higher risk of developing diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and a whole host of types of cancer.

But still, in this day and age, you can go to Kirk Supermarket or Hurley’s or Foster’s and see the fat slobs (with their fat kids in tow) in line with carts full of candy, custard creams, sodas, chips, and an array of other foods that are loaded with fat, processed sugar and chemicals that will make them sick and that will eventually kill them; and that presently make them a drain on insurance companies or the government who ends up paying their medical bills.

And the great insult continues within our own government because the very leaders who are trying to better Cayman’s health care system and improve the quality of life here in Cayman are themselves overweight, out of shape, unhealthy fatties. The very politicos who tell us not only to keep our environment healthy but also to keep ourselves healthy as well are the largest offenders. “Do as I say, not as I do… pass the donuts.”

So why don’t fat people just “go green” and start eating a healthy diet? Because they refuse to take responsibility for their own actions that led them to where they are and they shift the burden of responsibility from themselves onto society and ultimately our health care system. Why? Because they have no incentive to do otherwise.

Leaders in Cayman refuse take the tough stand and say, “If you’re fat – you will die” and they refuse to take a hard line on something that is one of the top (if not the top) financial burdens on our society – unhealthy living. The government has a golden opportunity to make Cayman a shining example not of sweeping environmental reform but of unprecedented healthy living reform. Cayman’s goal should be to be the healthiest islands in the Caribbean. We could be the first “Green Population: - I would bet a healthy environment would follow.

Am I advocating some sort of healthy living laws? No. But if I was, would I be so far off the mark? We live in a society in which the health care system stands a very good chance (for a number of reasons) of continuing to suck money out of the government's pockets (and our pockets) at an unheard of rate which affects us all in so many ways.

Yet still the government refuses to acknowledge that unhealthy living is not only a physical and emotional burden for fatties, but a financial burden for the rest of us. They can’t see the wasted money through all the fat.

Going green should be an idea that we embrace more in our kitchens than on our beaches or on our roads. Going green with our diets would lead to a happier and healthier human population.

Going green in our kitchens would help reduce instances of liver disease, high blood pressure, heart diseases, diabetes, high cholesterol, immune disorders, and more. Going green with our diets would help fat-asses be not so fat. Going green with our food choices would help Cayman reduce the astronomically high numbers of people with diabetes who suffer not only with the disease but with a sub-par health system and a crappy low-benefit government SHIC (Shiity Health Insurance Contract) plan.

Going green might encourage local commerce by increasing the demands for products from local farmers.

And going green would mean that I don’t get stuck next to one of you larders on an airplane (okay, so I’m a bit selfish).

Going green isn’t just about reducing greenhouse gasses, driving some little gay-looking hybrid car, carrying your groceries home from the market in a reusable cloth bag or turning off a light. Going green is a concept that should be embraced as a lifestyle in order to make the world a better place.

Because at the end of the day if we can encourage fat people to lose weight by “going green” it’s going to lead to a more beautiful environment, right?

I’ll leave you with a simple question: How can we save our planet by “going green” if we can’t even save ourselves? We can’t.

So change YOUR world. Go green in YOUR world and the beautification of OUR world will follow.

Comments

[PJ Griffith]

I love this! Great article. It inspires me to go "green"!

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THANK YOU. PASS IT ALONG TO A FAT FRIEND AND FAT MLA. - rtm

[Sheber]

I agree that going green is the best choice for everyone, everywhere. But I also realize that it might be harder for some. I for one had sticker shock at the grocer's organic and sugar free foods. Though It is a priority and I make do. In this age of consumerism maybe fat people could be considered the better consumers, hence of more value to a country's economy. I'm not saying it's right. It just is. Also, people get fat for many emotional reasons, one been having their self esteem lowered by abuse in childhood, so I don't really think that name calling in adulthood is productive either.

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I MIGHT ACTUALLY AGREE WITH YOU IF YOU WEREN'T SUCH A POOPY-HEAD. THANKS FOR THE COMMENT - rtm

[chubby AND people like me]

Wow, what a disgusting person you are. Stop judging others and take a look at yourself, are you perfect? No flaws? I would rather be fat and unattractive than be nasty on the inside.

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YOU MUST BE FAT AND I MUST HAVE TOUCHED A NERVE.

I'M NOT BEING JUDGEMENTAL. WHAT I AM BEING IS BRUTALY HONEST - WHICH IS NOWHERE NEAR JUDGEMENTAL.

I AM ENCOURAGING FAT PEOPLE TO GET HEALTHY AND SAVE THEIR OWN LIVES. I AM STATING FACTS THAT MORBIDLY OBESE PEOPLE WILL LIVE A VERY UNHEALTHY LIFE AND DIE A MOST MISERABLE DEATH. THESE ARE NOT NASTY OR JUDGEMENTAL STATEMENTS OR CONCEPTS. THEY ARE FACTS.

FAT PEOPLE (WITH VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS) CAN AND SHOULD TAKE CONTROL AND GET INTO SHAPE - PERIOD. BUT FOR SOME REASON THEY DON'T. IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL INSIDE? NONSENSE - IT'S BECAUSE ON WHATEVER LEVEL THEY ARE LACKING THE MOTIVATION TO MAKE THEMSELVES HEALTHIER.

I DON'T CARE HOW PRETTY YOU ARE INSIDE; FAT IS FAT, MORBIDLY OBESE IS MORBIDLY OBESE, DIABETES IS DIABETES, AND PREMATURELY DEAD IS PREMATURELY DEAD - AND THERE IS NOTHING PRETTY ABOUT A PERSON WHO IS BEAUTIFUL INSIDE DYING YOUNG BECAUSE THEY FOOLISHLY REFUSED TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

FAT PEOPLE WHO GET DISEASES LIKE HEART DISEASE, DIABETES AND CANCER AS A RESULT OF BEING FAT PUT AN UNFAIR BURDEN ON THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM - FACT. OH... BUT THEY'RE STILL PRETTY INSIDE.

FURTHER, FAT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T GET HEALTH INSURANCE IN CAYMAN PUT AN UNFAIR BURDEN ON THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE IT FOR THEM. FACT. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE PRETTY INSIDE THAT FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY.

I AM A BRASH AND ACERBIC INDIVIDUAL WHO SPEAKS HIS MIND. FACT. I'M NOT TRYING TO BE PRETTY; BUT IF I'VE OFFENDED YOU I HAVE TWO THINGS TO SAY: ONE, YOU WERE WARNED IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE POST AND; TWO - YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE HEALTH/WEIGHT ISSUES THAT YOU NEED TO RESOLVE.

SO MR/MS "CHUBBY AND PEOPLE LIKE ME" TRY SPENDING AS MUCH MONEY AT THE GYM AS YOU SPEND ON JUNK FOOD. TRY TRADING A PEDICURE FOR A PERSONAL TRAINING SESSION. TRY PUTTING DOWN THE REMOTE AND TAKING A WALK. TRY TAKING BETTER CARE OF YOURSELF FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FAMILY.

ME? JUDGEMENTAL? OKAY, SURE... IF YOU IGNORE YOUR HEALTH AND JEOPARDIZE THE WELFARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY YOU'RE A FREAKING IDIOT AND YOU'RE SELFISHLY JEOPARDIZING THE JOY THAT YOU BRING THEM. BUT I'M SURE YOU'RE PRETTY ON THE INSIDE... WHICH I'M SURE BODDEN FUNERAL HOME WILL BURY ALONG WITH YOUR OUTSIDE.

HOW'S THAT FOR JUDGEMENTAL? - rtm

[BRS]

Brilliant rant on an issue that has bothered me my whole life. You are right ALL us non-fatties are disgusted and thinking it but don't know how to say it. I understand it's a sensative issue as my mother is a big woman and has been her whole life, while I have requested organic foods, fruit, & veggies over chips and candy since I was a kid and have worked out most my life to maintain a fit and slender figure. It's hard work, and I see why they don't want to do it, but it's absolutely necessary. Plus everyone knows that "Beautiful on the inside" is a fat persons way of feeling better about themselves and justifying their lack of responsibility for their own well being.

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I'VE HAD TWO FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE OPTED FOR GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY IN ORDER TO GET THEIR WEIGHT UNDER CONTROL AND RE-START A LIFE STALLED BY BEING MORBIDLY OBESE.

I'M HAPPY TO SAY THEY BOTH NOW EAT PROPERLY AND EXERCISE REGULARLY AND ARE HAPPY AN D HEALTHY.

SOMETIMES THERE'S NO NICE WAY TO SAY THINGS.

THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS. - rtm

[intrigued]

Why is it o.k to support gay people and actions but slander those overweight ? - just wondering. . .

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SLANDER? DID I SLANDER OR DID I SPEAK THE TRUTH AND ENCOURAGE FAT PEOPLE TO LOSE WEIGHT AND SAVE THEIR LIVES? HMMMM... - rtm

[BS]

I kindly request that the initials on my May 6, 2008 comment be changed to BRS as someone I know got in trouble for the comment that I made. Thank you.

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YOU GOT IT. - rtm

I don't mind you speaking the truth, but God made everyone different for a reason, I know more skinny people that are sick or died of a disease then I do fat people, think about how many people you know that are skinny and have had cancer or died from it or have diabetes, I know fat can cause problems,but not all problems are caused just from fat,if you don't like looking at them then turn your head the other way, no one asked you to look. Everybody has their own reason for being fat, it could be psycological problems or it could be health reasons they are fat. Unless you know their situation I guess you really can't judge them now can you.

OF COURSE I CAN JUDGE THEM. THAT'S WHAT I DO HERE. I OBSERVE AND PROVIDE COMMENTARY, AND SOMETIMES THAT COMMENTARY IS QUITE JUDGEMENTAL.
AND I AGREE THAT GOD MADE US ALL DIFFERENT BUT HE ALSO GAVE US BRAINS TO USE AS WELL. IF YOU ARE MORBIDLY OBESE (OR MORBIDLY ANOREXIC) A DECISION TO SEEK HELP NEEDS TO BE MADE.
THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS - rtm