So while I believe that the ideal woman’s body portrayed in magazines and television is way too thin, unhealthy and unrealistic, I also believe the large number of studies that have found a correlation between obesity and disease. I also believe that anybody who’s not healthy and able to participate in a minimum amount of activity, like walking, misses out on a lot of opportunities in life. All that said, I think it’s only fair to also point out that there is another side. This New York Times article,