@DivaJean:

I'm not quite sure what I said that you're objecting to.

First of all, I thought it went without saying that the media presentation of fat people (and especially fat poor people) was very much what I was trying to address here.

Second, I try very hard to keep up with the science on health issues. The most recent research I've seen has been very much against the notion that there will ever be a potion to cure obesity or to capture for fat people the health advantages of being thin. Further, the health advantages of being thin look more and more to be just that--health advantages of being thin. Eating a poor diet and then adding 7 servings of vegis to it doesn't make it healthy. (Even though statistically people who eat 7 servings of vegis are much healthier than people who eat very few.)

Third, I don't know if there are more fat people now than there were 10 years ago, but I think there are unquestionably more fat people now than there were 50 or 60 years ago--just look at crowd-scene photos from the 1940s and 1950s.

Finally, I think cheap, healthy food is very much a core topic for this site.

The forces that have come together to make it cheaper and easier to eat a poor diet than to eat a good diet are evil, but not the sort of evil that it's easy to fight against. I choose to fight by advocating for people to eat real food. It's healthy, and (with a bit of effort) it can be cheap, too.

It's a core topic not only for the site, but also for me.