Its kind of odd isn't it, that we aren't concerned with another person being overweight?
It is socially desirable to be thin, but we recognize the health risks both mental and physical of being too thin through a negative eating pattern.
It appears to be less socially desirable to be overweight, and we categorically refuse to think in terms of health risks both mental and physical to being overweight from a negative eating pattern. At least in terms of intervention.
And yet even being 5 percent higher than the low point average number for your body fat percentage can greatly increase your health risks.
And we won't even talk about the mental health aspects.
And the higher you are the greater your risk in the severity of the problem.
And yet we don't intervene or comment very much about that do we?
I can only imagine its because weight is as much a social issue? You can walk up to a girl and tell her . . you are much thinner than normal/average and talk about it . . . it is considered
really bad to walk up to a girl and say you are much heavier than norma/average and ask to talk about.
Am I right that we allow a lot of our friends and Brothers/Sisters maintain an extremely unhealthy state because we are afraid of hurting their feelings?
It seems an odd act of faithlessness on our part not to try to help a friend who is jeapardzing their health in a way that is easily remedied. Especially when we are so quick to intervene in other health matters.
Doesn't this disregard for that person's health actually make us into bad friends/Brothers/Sisters?
Its a question I ponder.
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Originally posted by nucutiepie
The ONLY reason my sorority would ever be concerned with someone's weight is if we were concerned about a lack of it.
We have had one or two cases of girls with really really serious eating disorders, and when it became clear that they had a severe problem and needed medical and psychological testing, steps to intervene in the situation and get the girl counseling were taken.
Other than that sort of a situation, where it's our responsibility to look out for the health and well-being of a sister, we would never concern ourselves with a girl's weight, whether she be 95, 150, or 400 pounds.
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