New York Times recently published the article 'Fat but Fit'? posing the question: can you be fat and healthy? This has been a long running debate, but more recently fatness has become more accepted. It's important to remember that if you're skinny, you are not necessarily healthy. Some thin people eat horribly and never exercise, but are just lucky with the genes/metabolism they were born with. Many may assume these people are healthy from their physique, but the truth is that they could be extremely unhealthy. Health itself does not look like anything. We know that obesity is an unhealthy disease and we can see it with the naked eye. But, having fat, and varied amounts, is usually just down to you metabolism and how your body happens to react to food or physical activity. Don't judge people's health from looking at them, because that is almost impossible.

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