GET FIT!!
WITH
Dr. Braxton Cosby
YOU ARE NOT FAT!
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Growing up can be a wonderful stage of life. Or it can be insanely brutal if you let the peer pressure and
the opinions of others weigh on you too heavily. Society is slowly beginning to make efforts to taking their
health seriously, and yet with all the fitness crazes and fads out there, many are still turning to desperation
diets to find a way to lose weight quickly.
The concept of working and waiting is a past fantasy and the instant gratification that comes with starving
oneself is the more imminent reality. Although I’ve never truly struggled to lose weight being an athlete
for the majority of my life -I often wonder how overweight individuals feel when someone calls them fat, or
when they see someone else who everyone considers to be skinny. Do they feel downcast, ashamed,
riddled with self-pity that only makes them waddle into more of a downward spiral, wanting to emotionally
eat more and more to satisfy some inner craving to be accepted? I would, wouldn’t you?
Let’s face it, no one wakes up every day and says to themselves, “You know what, today I’d like to be made
fun of, teased, or gawked at.” It just doesn’t happen. So why do people overeat? Some people are so
emotionally scared that they eat crave food as an escape. Others overeat because of cultural norms. While
some people are mere victims of their own family values, which teach them to always clean their plates and
consume foods that are high in saturated fats because that is all they can afford. Socioeconomics plays a
key factor in the quality of the food people eat. We now know that it’s not just the quantity of the food we
eat that dictates our weight gain, but the quality of the food. In some cases, quality is more of a factor. I
know I can’t change the world over night concerning these two circumstances, but I want to implore you
(the reader) to try and do something for me. I want you to join hands with me and make an attempt to stop
calling people fat.