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11. Bones are clean and pure. Fat is dirty and hangs on your bones like a parasite. - Having a lot of fat is kind of gross, I'll admit.  But you are leaving out two key things in your body.  One, blood.  Two, muscle.  Right now, your bones are not "clean"- they are covered in blood.  I would show you a picture, but that would repulse you and me both.  But what about muscle?  If you're only showing "clean and pure" bones, that means you won't be fit.  That means you won't be strong.  That means you won't have muscle.  And a little fat is not bad at all.  According to the American Dietetic Association, women should actually have 20-25% body fat to be healthy.

12. If you eat, you'll look like those disgusting, fat, ghetto and trailer-trash hookers on Jerry Springer. - Yikes.  That's a bit extreme, isn't it?  I mean, I eat.  Three meals a day and plenty of snacks in between.  I'll show you a picture of me to your right.  Do I look like one of those disgusting, fat, ghetto and trailer-trash hookers on Jerry Springer?  I sure hope not.  Another thing... I don't see how eating could make you trailer-trash, because in order to even qualify for that cruel stereotype, wouldn't you have to live in a trailer-home?  That has nothing to do with eating.  And I don't think being a hooker has anything to do with food either.  Same with being ghetto.  What does any of that have to do with food?

13. The models that everyone claim are beautiful, the spitting image of perfection, are any of them fat? ...NO... - I've never really considered models to be very beautiful.  I don't think they're even really meant to look beautiful.  In order to become a runway model, you must have fairly plain features, be able to look severe and serious, pull your hair back tightly away from your face, and all because attention is not supposed to be on your gorgeous face and body, but on the clothes you're wearing... really, models are a bunch of walking coat racks.  The world does put a false sense of "beauty" on girls who have "model-thin" figures and that is wrong.  But also think about how much the media praises girls like Gabourey Sidibe and Jordin Sparks, girls who are comfortable with their own weight?

14. Too many people in America are obese. - That's very true.  But there's actually a good thick line between obese and malnourished.  You want to be on that line... right at a healthy weight.  Talk to your doctor to find out what your ideal weight is.  Don't think he's full of it... he's been to school for years and years to learn this stuff.  He knows what he's talking about.

15. People who eat are selfish and unrealistic. - Harsh!  This hurts my feelings.  I guess that means I'm selfish and unrealistic.  First of all, how am I selfish?  I'm eating and not wasting food that I've been blessed with.  Secondly, I wish I could talk to this writer in person.  I don't understand how I'm the one being unrealistic.  Not eating is unrealistic.  Thinking you can survive without food is unrealistic.

Check in on Wednesday to read my next installment of 40 Reasons to Eat.