Why do people thing fat people are lazy?

Question

Not all fat people are lazy. its just for some reason they can't lose weight.

Answer 1

Not all fat people are lazy. Not all skinny people are active. I know some fat people who can kick *** on the sports field in just about any sport, you'd be surprised. I know some skinny people who haven't done anything active in years.
There are many types of lazy -- physical, mental, emotional. Fat and skinny have nothing to do whether or not a person is lazy.
People are fat for a variety of reasons -- mainly poor diet -- and look around the **** we eat in North America today, we have a McDonalds every three blocks (at least it feels that way in NY), and they offer the dollar menu, so for many people (especially those without a big budget) it is less expensive to eat the **** food than to go and eat healthy. Plus, we have less and less time to cook healthy menues at home as we are working 45-50 hours or more a week. With all that work, where is the lazy.

Answer 2

This is a case where generalizing is not good. Some fat people are physically lazy by doing nothing, but sitting on the couch, watching TV and eating an entire bag of chips. While some fat people aren't physically lazy, they have lousy eating habits and do not excercise adeqautley for whatever reason. I would say these people may be mentally lazy. They are overweight, and need to lose weight, but instead of eating a healthy diet and CHOOSING to take a walk, they choose to do nothing about it. There are of course a thrid category of overweight people who have physical issues and are not able to lose weight for medical reasons. I think fat people are viewed as lazy due to the fact, that unless you have a medical problem, you really have control over whether or not you're fat.

Answer 3

Because you see so many tv showes on the tv with fat ppl doing nothing but eatting and can't do things like play with thier kids and the media pretty much brained wash us with the thought that more heavier ppl need to take it slow and watch what they eat and some can't help their food addiction and some are born that way from natural hereditery reasons and traits from moms and dads, plus the fact that the usa is the most obese area in the world because of the restaruantes such as mcdonalds and all you can eat buffets they take it over the top and so many snack foods out there may cause this imformity to be alittle life wreckening and makes it hard to gain self esteeme and confidence in ones self to do anything except sit there and pray it will go away

Answer 4

True. There are gland/metabolsm poblems that cause obesity. The majority though, are obese due to unhealthy mental/physical lifestyles, and overeating. When idle, or unhappy, some people get active, some people eat. It's this, more than anything else that'll determine whether one's fat, or not. The "laziness" is soemthing that comes later, and is'nt a synonym for "fat." I've known plenty folks who were both skinnhy AND lazy.

Answer 5

That's just an easy way for people to insult them. They assume that if they were active or doing something they'd be able to lose the weight. Not true. Many overweight people can't seem to lose weight no matter how hard they try, or, more predominantly, their eating habits don't work well with their exercise level. I know a lot of people that work out regularly or are constantly moving, but they counteract all of the exercise by eating fast food, fatty substances or drinking nothing but high-calorie/sugar drinks.

Overall, it's just a sad misinterpretation that you'll only ever hear from ignorant, biased people who are so upset with their own life that they feel the need to make fun of others.

Answer 6

I don't think people think that fat peopleare lazy. I think when a person looks at someone fat it shows they lack self control.
Of course lots of people have no control of themselves but it comes out in different ways - some people smoke while others do drugs others steal or cheat on their spouse - the only difference is that you can see it in front of you as oppose to the other stuff you can hide.

Answer 7

I don't people think they are lazy its just that it looks like its difficult to move around and be able to get a lot of productive things done for health reason's. It works the same way if someones was extremely thin.

Answer 8

I agree with you, I am not over weight but I continue to hear fat comments about other people. Many heavy set people are in better shape than thinner people.

But some people think that if you heavy that you must be sitting around and eating all day --- which is not true for most heavy set people.

Medical, family genes and alot reason can explain why someone is heavy.

Answer 9

Well, check the crater in the corner of the couch where a fat person sits and wonder if they really are lazy. Check under the cushions for beer bottle caps and popcorn. The perception being is that active people burn calories, and fat people sit on their backsides watching baywatch and wonder why they can't have a body like that or get girls like that.

Answer 10

It may not be laziness alone, but a combo of bad diet, lack of activity, lack of motivation. Everything in America is geared to make things easier for people. Everybody owns a car, has a computer, a t.v., a cell phone. Everything is too much toward apathy. What ever happened to walking to work or to the store?