Maybe it's because I have personal experience with an ED (bulimia, not anorexia), but I'd rather them be obese. Knowing what I do about ED sufferers, it's so heart breaking and soul crushing to witness, and I don't want to imagine nubers for it being so high as obesity.    While obesity is a nasty bitch, my heart doesn't get broken looking at it. I get motivated and have great fun insulting them while I know they're all dying out earlier and earlier and won't be an epidemic forever....I'd feel horrible if masses were dying from EDs.    (This is all, of course, only my opinion)