The Thin Minority

This weekend I travelled to Salt Lake City, UT to go cross country skiing and snow-shoeing. I have to say, I was impressed by the "slim" appearing Utah-ians. In a country where the girth is ever growing, I feel that I am a part of a decreasing minority.

With 2/3 of the population overweight or obese, with 75% expected by the year 2015, I am in fact the face of the minority.

Will people some day start to point in my direction and laugh because i'm thin? Will kids start taunting the thin students in class?

Why is that to be accepted you should be part of a majority? I feel it is a crime on humanity to show plus size models as a healthy image. They may be healthy, and their plus size may be considered in the overweight range...but, by propagating this image, I fear we are saying, "it's ok to be fat, it's ok to be unhealthy."

Perhaps I go to far as to equate fat with unhealthy, you can be fat and fit, you can be thin and unfit, but all too often in this developed country, fat does equal unhealthy and unfit.

People have forgotten what food is, and I don't mean the crispy things that are hermetically sealed inside of boxes, each containing 100 calories...I mean, people have forgotten how to cook, how to eat, what fruit and vegetables are, and what they should taste like in their natural form.

I plan to start posting again, more frequently, on what food really is. I want to discuss the "real food diet." I hope you have qusetions and will send them my way.

I want to re-teach people how their bodies want them to eat for health.

With that...my last thought is...don't let my minority dwindle to nothing.