Is fat beautiful or gross?

Babylonian images of women were plump and full. I still hear regularly from plus size women that it is a bias of our culture. I hate to break it but Babylonian women were healthy. There is a huge difference from the ancient cultures plus size models and today’s overweight women.

Let’s explore why bigger more padded women were beautiful in ancient cultures. Food could be sparse. When food was available it was possibly vegetables. If a woman was fat, she had plenty of food and most likely did not have to work in her field to obtain that food. Thin women usually ate a lower calorie more vegetable and grain based diet and probably worked very hard every day. They beauty was in the status that their size represented.

Outside of that, we can also see a huge difference between the healths of an ancient person who had extra weight versus the average modern obese individual. Consider an ancient diet.  In Babylon people did not have extra chemicals, refined grains and sugars or mass produced processed and preserved foods. In order to put additional weight on, an individual would have to eat large quantities of natural, organic foods. Granted there was potentially a large amount of fats from red meats. I would guess based on the little bits of research my ADD head is able to do, that the majority of their diet was healthy.

In the modern world, we eat artificially colored, flavored, sweetened, bleached, enriched, chemically treated food product. It is almost impossible to escape this. We feed our animals supplemental diets which turn the stomach. We eat sick animals and altered produce. We eat excessive amounts and then wonder why we feel and look yucky. Our obesity is not pleasant looking, it does not create a round plump, full look. It is a hallmark of bad diet. Our skin is pasty and acne prone. Our hair is lifeless. Our thighs are riddled with cellulite. Our arms are flabby. Our stomach has rolls and flab. It is a sign of diabetes, heart disease and breathing problems, to name a few.

It’s okay to be curvy, full, voluptuous ladies and gentleman. As long as that is from a healthy, well balanced diet, not boxed macaroni and cheese and Big Mac’s.