Okay, the title has pretty much nothing to do with the actual writing in the blog. It's just kind of there this time.
I've found out this week (some things I've already been subconscious to) that people who are unhealthy (obese / too thin / etc) are more apt to have depression issues as well as worry and stress. As well, there are a ton of people who panic because they go to the gym, and they work out for long periods of time each day. Studies show that working out doesn't actually do that much, where a run might only burn 350 calories or a swim would be 250. As well, when people go out and exercise, when they're done, they go and gorge themselves because they think that, because they DID exercise, they can. Sorry, but the buzzer says you're WRONG. Depending on what people choose to eat when they finish their work out, they could be eating twice as many calories as they just burned. People need to focus on eating right first, and then worry about exercise. Common mis-perception is that being heftier than someone else means your fat, but it doesn't. The media promotes 23" waistlines, which are outside of reality. People have different body frames, and not everyone is destined to look like an hourglass.
There was something that tremendously scared me, though: the pro-anorexia sites continue to rise. On Yahoo!'s servers, there are over 100 sites encouraging anorexia, and that's AFTER 21 were removed. It seems like the more that are taken off, even more are created. And what is malicious about these site-creators, is that, though they claim that they "Are there to help people with anorexia" and "Are not encouraging it," upon inspection there are links and pages full of information encouraging it.
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