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Old July 30th, 2010, 02:34 AM posted to soc.support.fat-acceptance,misc.consumers,rec.travel.air,rec.travel.usa-canada,misc.consumers.frugal-living
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Default MSNBC: Petite woman bumped from plane for hefty passenger

Mxsmanic wrote:
Penny writes:

The woman, a petite 5-foot-4, 110 pounds ...


For what it's worth, the average height for women in the U.S. is 5 feet 4
inches, so she's not petite.

... because the overweight passenger in question was only 14 and
they were trying to spare the teen embarrassment.


Sparing the teen embarrassment will result in her weighing about three times
as much when she's 35, just before she dies of diabetic complications and
cardiovascular disease.


Some of them hang on for an amazingly long time. There is one in my
office, probably around my age (early 50s) that has to weigh twice what
I do, and I'm no lightweight, and am close to a foot taller. First met
her 30 years ago when I started, when she was maybe 75 pounds lighter.
ISTR the clinical term is 'morbidly obese'. I never expected her to make
it past 40.

But yeah, 14 and fat is still mostly the parent's fault. A fat 14 was,
in all odds, at least a chunky 8 year old. In my experience, fat kids,
more often than not, have fat parents, and get their dietary/exercise
habits from them. So the parents are in denial that the kid has a
problem, and usually have plenty of crap food around the house.

And save your flames- I am borderline fat myself (Just a big gut,
thankfully), so I know what it is like to be food-dependent, with a
mother with too many kids who used food to shut us up so she could get
some work done. But at least I'm not sliding any further into the hole,
and occasionally make it a little ways back up the hill.

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