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but the emotionbal ABUSE heaped upon fat kids does not help.People who have been wounded and traumatized sometimes build body armor with fat,to keep agressive horney men AWAY,or they get fat to avoid the carping sniping critics who are envious of another's body away.There is alot of factors that could make a person heavy,dieting causes rebound weight gain. I have seen it in my own life.
I have ceased dieting,and I will NEVER diet again..and my weight however it is over the anorexic BMI level, ,has stayed steady.The last diet I did I gained ten pounds after all was said and done,after every diet cycle I gain 10 pounds or more .. my set point metabolism has slowed.. So I quit dieting and I have quit gaining.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/15/health/main578191.shtml
http://www.shs.uwo.ca/publications/mindbody/fphobia.htm

Some interesting thoughts...
Le'a Kent, drawing on the work of Julia Kristeva, takes this concept one step further by describing the fat body in terms of abjection. "In the public sphere," she writes, "fat bodies, and fat women's bodies in particular, are represented as a kind of abject: that which must be expelled to make all other bodily representations and functions, even life itself, impossible" (Kent 135). In other words, the fat body is necessary to the existence of the thin female body. Kent argues, "the fat body rings the margins of the good self, haunting them as it helps create them. The fat body must be repeatedly evoked at the margins, drawn in and then expelled, in order to continue taking the weight of corporeality off thin bodies" (136). Therefore, the fat body represents all that is nasty, unsightly, and unspeakable about the body. It represents poor health, disease, and death. It is what allows the thin body to exist as the ideal, because it assumes the negative qualities that all bodies, in reality, possess.

http://www.iiav.nl/ezines/web/GenderForum/2005/No12/genderforum/fisanick.html