A randomly chosen Google link has informed me that a study from 2005 showed that moderate obesity takes an average of 3 years off of a person's life. You're telling me that possibility is a bigger deal than the possibility of a lifetime of depression, low self-esteem and self-hatred for an entire lifetime? I have to…

You're right, loving your children less if they're not pretty enough is totally the right thing to do, he father isn't the worst person ever at all.

My endocrinologist has a message for you: You're full of shit. You know nothing. You should shut the fuck up.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Plus, most fat women don't have that problem.

Lindy already said in the article that being body-positive is focusing on health instead of appearance, instead of using appearance as a proxy for health, which is what most of our culture does. You're not pointing out anything new.

Yes, but the fundamental flaw in most people's argument is that they associate being overweight with being unhealthy. There are plenty of overweight people who are unhealthy, but then there are a lot of them that aren't. For example, my younger sister is much thinner than me, but I am a million times healthier than…

In the UK, Meredith Kercher is a well-known name to people following the news. The Kercher family have shown much strength over the past years; having to grieve and fight for justice for their daughter in public.

I don't really see what new thing you think you're pointing out. If someone is fat and unhealthy, they'll probably be losing weight if they pursue better health. If someone is fat and healthy, like some percentage of people are, they'll probably still be fat even if they're hitting all the checkboxes for being…

I have reasonable eating habits (I could show you months of My Fitness Pal data to prove it) and I am an active individual (I go to the gym several times a week and I don't have a car, meaning that I walk A LOT). I'm still fat. I'll probably always be fat. I've lost weight in the past and it involved doing extremely…

Decreased ability to conceive is still better than none.

It's way easier for the family of a violent crime victim to have a beginning and ending to this story. I know this to be true for a fact. When someone dies violently, your coping skills need to have firm story about what happened or who did it otherwise you will torture yourself for years and years about the…

The Kerchers want this to be over. They want to know who killed their daughter, and they want it to be a simple, clear story so they can mourn. From the beginning, the authorities - the people who supposedly had Meredith's interests at heart - swore up and down to them that Amanda and Raffaele were the killers. In…

Oh, for fuck's sake have some compassion.

Well, when the people in charge of the investigation tell you over and over - these are the people who did it - and then you see one of them getting all this press and becoming a mini-celebrity (not saying that's Knox's fault) and your daughter who was horribly murdered is basically forgotten in the news - it would be…

Here's the thing that really bums my party out about this case: Rudy Guede will be free to kill again in 10 years. Does nobody else see how this dude totally got away with a murder? I mean, because the prosecution couldn't let the ridiculous satanist sex game theory drop, they effectively made it so Meredith's killer…

I've seen this mentioned a few times on the message boards for the news on Kercher, Knox and Sollecito... But I can't help but think, isn't the USA's justice system corrupt also? People are sentenced to life or even death on the flimsiest of evidence, 'eyewitnesses' are bribed to give evidence, and god help them if a…

I know that there's probably not proof beyond a reasonable doubt here. But damn, that woman's body language just jumps out at me every time I see video of her. It reminds me of Casey Anthony, honestly, down to the weirdly inappropriate behavior in the wake of a murder. I can't say that I think she'd be found guilty…

Well when she is extradited and the case is conducted properly we shall hopefully see. This murder was not an individual endeavour and her attempts to frame somebody else so as to protect herself is deplorable.

The Italian police leaning on her when they already had a black man they could blame? That staggers belief. If the Italian police could blame every crime on darker skinned people (and Eastern Europeans), they would. They are way more racist. The reason they would go after her is her story kept changing.

She is guilty. The fact that her family hired a PR company to maintain her image and their constant appearance on TV has lent to the idea of this 'innocent pretty girl next door'. She is guilty.