I'm 36 and I only have one friend married with kids. That you have a 26 year old friend pressuirng you seems really out of the norm for me. The only pressure I was getting from my 26 year old friends back in the day was to drink more and hook up.

Thank you for this. I have a good friend who is a photographer and he has EXACTLY the same opinion of doing weddings - a necessity when his normal fashion/actors portraits are low.

That was insufferable... but it had nothing to do with the videographer. Ugh, those people!

Thanks! And I gotta say, you're fighting the good fight, educating people one Jezzie voice at a time!

Well, we have programs to treat other addictions. We almost have a society-wide problem when it comes to obesity. More than a third of American adults are overweight or obese. There's definitely something wrong with our culture that we're gonna have to deal with if we want to get over this.

You make some good point and - I am fat right now (I'm a yo-yo-er) - and I know with my own struggles the ONLY times I have been able to lose weight has been when I focused on being healthy.

There are three countries leading in this epidemic - The US, The UK and Australia. Us anglophones are doing something very, very fucked up, because the biggest health threat in our society is from obesity. Maybe it started from people eating high fat/high sugar while at the same time becoming more sedentary, but it…

Aww, honey. I'm sorry that happened to you, really, especially at this moment.

Listen, we have a serious epidemic going on. Sooo many people are dying every single day because of obesity related illness. This is serious!!!!

That's because obese is a medical term for when more than a certain percentage of your body weight comes from fat. The body reacts to that concentration of fat in various ways. There are documentable symptoms including hypertension and diabetes along with osteoarthritis and a whole lot more risks for heart disease and…

They're really not talking about you - especially if you have a Thyroid problem!

I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that obesity is caused by Food Addiction. Just like shaming an alcoholic doesn't do anything to help an alcoholic to quit, shaming someone for their addiction usually just makes it worse.

Now, that's much better!

I am not blindly anything. I'm simply saying that I haven't studied the subject. I'm assuming the FDA and the regulatory agencies from the other countries that Subway operates in have studied it. I don't think other countries are privy to information that the US isn't, but I do find it circumspect that the US is the…

And there's no evidence that it's NOT harmful - my point with the cigarettes and sugar. And where am I arguing banning any and all chemicals. I'm saying if every country except the US is banning it, then maybe they know something we don't. And I would ALWAYS put the weight of skepticism on corporations whose main…

You're sending me on a fool's mission and you know it.

Fair point on Number #2, but thanks for misreading me on #1 & #3

I guarantee you the company putting urethane (with a *small* risk to humans) is making a lot more money than getting pageviews on a counter-culture news sites. My advice? Follow the money.

They have a serious age problem at Jezebel. The other day it was women in their late twenties giving advice on making the decision to be childless.

I hate co-workers