What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

by Aubrey Gordon

Precisely because Americans are so repressed about class issues, the disgust the (relatively) poor engender in the (relatively) rich must be projected onto some other distinguishing characteristic.

Studies based on twins show that genetics could account for as much as 80 percent of a person’s size.

What we have long considered the health conditions associated with being fat in actuality may be the effects of long-term dieting, which very fat people are pressured heavily to do.