Livin' large

Is this a rare repulse in America's War on Fatties? According to the Washington Post this recent study shows that being big isn't as awful as the skinny mafia has led us to believe.

"What this tells us is the hazards have been very much exaggerated," said Steven N. Blair, a professor of exercise science, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina. "It's just not as big a problem as people have said."

Now, I don't know what "exercise science" is, but I'm glad to see a news report that, for once, tells people that there isn't a problem. Of course, the article calls it "counterintuitive." Even as they report the true science, the anti-fatty patriarchy demands obedience to their prevailing paradigm.

Readers of this weblog know that I am wide-of-bottom, but my health is hecka good. Perhaps this news will get people to lay off of fatties and focus on bigger scientific issues, like climate change or stem-cell research.

You hear that, Saletan?