Enabling the obesity epidemic Hey guys. I would just like to share a story which influenced my view of the fat acceptance movement, and I would like you guys to tell me if you've had similar experiences. Here it goes: Back during summer, I went to another city in California to visit my cousin and aunt. My cousin is 16 like me, almost my height(I'm 6'2), but is morbidly obese. Just to be clear, I am not trying to shame him but to put his weight into perspective, his thighs were the width of two people heads side by side. He also has Type 2 Diabetes. When I was there he stayed up alot playing video games and would often sleep into noon. Anyway so one day we go to the dollar store to get some snacks with our aunt. I get a couple bags of yogurt raisins and two bottles of Gatorade. When we were going towards checkout, I noticed my aunt(who for the record is overweight) had got the following for my cousin: -A bag of cheese balls -2 1 liter bottles of (non-diet) soda -A pack of cookies(8-10) -And a few of those small boxes of candy(Things like Mike and Ike's etc) I didn't say anything though, my mom had told me about his weight before I got there and told me not to bring it up. But hopefully you get my point. It's so peculiar how people can enable such unhealthy behavior. but what are your guy's experiences?