The Bullsheet

Hello! I've seen some signs up around campus regarding national eating disorder awareness week. It's a good cause aimed at helping people (especially women) become comfortable with who they are and their bodies. My friend's daughter is a very important person in my life and I want to help insure that her body image isn't warped by the media's somewhat unrealistic standards. I went on the website and saw heavy emphasis on anorexia and bulimia, which is good, but they left out one disorder which affects many people on this campus and in America: eating too goddamn much. Now everyone should be comfortable in their genes, but if your jeans are getting a little tight around the waist and they used to fit fine, then maybe you are part of the 66.3 percent of non-institutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese (according to http://www.cdc.gov). Being fat is killing a ton (several tons actually) of Americans every year and burdening our already fucked up health care system. Just because your genes put you on the plus size doesn't mean you have an all you can eat pass to the french fries at Curtis, have some self-restrain.
-Matthew Ezzard