firecat

Thank you for this. I noticed some of the same problems in some of the posts I read, but not all of them, so your comments have given me some good food for though. I appreciate the time you take to educate people on these issues.

I initially liked the "thin people are the ones obsessed with food" comment, because I didn't think hard enough about what it was actually saying. If I were the author's editor, I might ask whether it would be appropriate to rephrase the comment to talk about dieters specifically, rather than "thin people." I think my initial appreciation of the comment was based on the fact that I personally have been most obsessed with food at times in my life when I was holding my weight down by restrictive dieting (something at which I sometimes seemed to be successful for brief periods), and so it resonated with that experience--basically, I was a lot more obsessed with food when I wasn't eating it than I am when I do. But if that's what the author's getting at, it's of course a mistake to assume either that thin people are dieters or that dieters are thin people. I'm glad you called my attention to that.