Ask Amy: A ‘thin and fit’ person tries to understand obesity
This is from a study published by the National Institutes of Health: “The feelings of appetite and satiety involve complex interactions between hormones from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to the hypothalamus and subsequent feedback. Within the hypothalamus are specific regions where hormones interact to produce sensations of appetite and satiety, leading to food consumption or a feeling of fullness.”
People overeat for a variety of sometimes complex physical and emotional reasons, including the fact that for some people, their brains are not receiving the message that they are full.
And sometimes we humans overeat because we want to, and don’t work out because we don’t want to.
Bodies are not universally lean. It is possible to be both overweight and fit.
The only wisdom I’m able to offer you with complete authority is that no overweight person wants or needs your gaze, your scrutiny, or your curiosity about why they aren’t more like you.
Dear Amy: I read your column every day before my shift. As a former sexual assault investigator, I vehemently disagree with your advice to “Sick of Secrets.” [Sick was the ex-wife of a man who had admitted to a sexual relationship decades prior, when he was 30 and the girl was 15 years old.]
Child sexual assault should never be kept a secret.
If a perpetrator will abuse once, they will abuse twice. This man abused a child.
Who says that this man has not abused his own daughter? This needs to be reported at once.
– Sgt. TM in Tulsa
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