I was goofing around on … actually, I don’t know how I came across this site, but I found a blog that posted these two photos with the headline “Face off with Facebook.”
Apparently, Teresa Valdez Klein of teresacentric.com got tired of being targeted for weight loss adds and started shelling out her own money to post these pictures as ads on Facebook. Pretty funny. When someone clicks on the photos, they take you to the Love Your Body Day website.
I just thought it was pretty funny and I wanted to share, considering all the weight loss gimmicks that are aimed at the American public every day.
On a more serious note, on FoxNews.com today, there was an article about obesity in the United States. The article says that 1 in 4 people are obese and that people in the South are more over weight than other areas of the country and that Colorado is the skinniest. Although the study was published by the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report they (the CDC) thinks the findings might be skewed since the survey was done over the phone and men are supposedly more likely to exaggerate their height and women are more likely to not tell you every pound. The CDC estimiate is that it is more like 30 to 35 percent of the population that is obese.
Either way, the only way that they are discerning obesity is by BMI, but as I said, it is okay to use BMI for a population just not individuals. But telling me, as an individual, that I am obese because “my BMI” is over 30 doesn’t take into account that I gained most of my weight from lifting weights and working out! Even when I was in the best shape I have ever been in, and was in really good shape according to the Army, I was overweight according to my BMI.
That is my rant for today.
There are always two sides to a story….
