Because “overweight” as defined by the CDC is actually most healthy weight to be at, again, according the CDC.

And because the gerontological data shows the people with more weight are healthier in late life.

How about because “obesity” is defined so stupidly that many professional atheletes (baseball, basktball, football, etc) are officially obese, many of them grossly?

Oh, and anorexia (and bulemia, which produces basically the physical effects) can kill you faster, and can have life-altering impacts on your body faster, and that those impacts are often worse.

In short, obesity doesn’t even register on the same scale of damage to the human body as anorexia.

And I see plenty of attention given to obesity, too.

But the political propaganda villifying everyone who’s not anorexic (enhanced by the media and especially the fashion industry) has made saying so dangerous and filled the minds of generations with an image that anorexia is good while being even slightly overweight is evil and a sure sign that you’re a socially inept, completely useless leech on society.