My Visit to Fat Central ; the Mail Treasures All Its Readers, Whatever Their Size, but There's No Doubt Obesity Is a National Crisis. So Who's Really to Blame? Amanda Platell has a Personal, and Highly Provocative, Answer...

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CONFESSION time. I am a fattist. I find obese people unappealing in almost every regard. They are physically unattractive, they lead unhealthy lives, they take up too much space on public transport, and (most of all) they are a strain not only on their clothing but on NHS resources.

The secret of their size? Their outsized appetites are matched by a lack of self-control and even less self-respect. There, I've said it. Just as I have said it many times in my column for this paper. And each time I do so, it's greeted by the same howls of outrage.

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My Visit to Fat Central ; the Mail Treasures All Its Readers, Whatever Their Size, but There's No Doubt Obesity Is a National Crisis. So Who's Really to Blame? Amanda Platell has a Personal, and Highly Provocative, Answer...

Who from? From fat people, of course. Because they say they can't help it -- it's society's fault, the government's neglect, the curse of a fat gene or heavy bones.

And joining in their chorus of protest are the bien pensants of the Left who, because they believe only the power of the state can transform people's lives, indulge the fatties' sense of victimhood and cosset their over-indulgence with the protective embrace (and generous hand-outs) of welfarism.

I have been sat on by the fat lobby more times than I care to remember when I've expressed my pet thesis that, far from being a complex social problem, weight comes down to a simple equation -- energy in (food and drink) versus energy out (exercise). Too much ...

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