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I find it interesting that the article notes that the obesity epidemic is due in part to doctors' being sensitive to their patients' weight, yet the only group which can be universally insulted and joked about (in much the same way that we used to make Polak jokes, etc) is fat people. The obese are *not* covered by the political correctness strictures in society these days.

Watch Conan sometime. See if there's not at least one fat joke each night. You'll see it in a lot of other venues as well. It is because obesity is perceived as being voluntary, the result of a lack of self-discipline, and therefore allowable as humor.