CH, as I said, I don't accept everything I read in print BUT I am apalled by some of the stuff I've seen posted here!

a further quote -

"The rejection of the war on fat is based on a simple principle: that tolerance towards an almost wholly benign form of human diversity is the least we should expect of ourselves, if we wish to lay claim to living in a civilised culture."

Tolerance and any evidence of a "civilized culture" seems to be as lacking on this issue as it is on many others here! Give me someone who is overweight and tolerant of his/her fellow beings (and no - I'm not by ideal weight/height charts!) rather than the smug, self-satisfied and sexist prejeudices some people have felt acceptable to post here!