The comments on that article were atrocious. Particularly this one:  Everybody's metabolic rate is different and your body can work against you to store fat, regardless of your efforts. People aren't going to starve and be uncomfortable so they can avoid being the target of someone's prejudice based solely on personal appearance. Even if you're going to refer to this as the result of a vice, this is the only one that is not socially acceptable and the only one used as a crutch to hate. It's not too bad she's big, it's too bad men believe we are put here to be aesthetically pleasing  Okay, so how come we have an obesity epidemic now and didn't in the 70's?