Is it Okay to be Fat? “Nightline” tackles this question and other delicate questions related to dieting and obesity and how it relates to heath in a “Face Off” to air Monday, February 22. This will be the program’s fifth “Face-Off,” a series launched two years ago that is a debate style format where hot topics get discussed among prominent voices in their field.
The “Face-Off” is scheduled to take place Friday, February 5th at The Cooper Union’s historic Great Hall in New York City. Crystal Renn, model and author of “Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves” and Marianne Kirby, co-author of “Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere” will face-off against MeMe Roth, president of National Action Against Obesity and Kim Bensen, author of “Finally Thin.” Renn and Kirby advocate against constant dieting and contend that you don’t have to be thin to be healthy while Roth and Bensen advocate against an obese America and believe in the importance of a responsible diet.
The “Face Off” will be moderated by co-anchor Cynthia McFadden and held at The Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City on Friday, February 5th at 4:00pmET. To obtain media credentials, please contact Alison Bridgman at 212-456-1578; alison.bridgman@abc.com. For more on the story visit: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/fat-question-debated-nightline-face-off/story?id=9718202
What: “Nightline Face-Off – Is It Okay to be Fat?”
Who: Crystal Renn, model and author of “Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves” and Marianne Kirby, author of “Lessons from the “Fat-O-Sphere”
MeMe Roth, President, National Action Against Obesity and
Kim Bensen, author of “Finally Thin”
When: Friday, February 5, 2010
4:00pm-5:30pm ET
Where: The Cooper Union’s Great Hall
The Foundation Building
7 East 7th Street (btw 3rd and 4th Aves)
New York City
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Wow. I'd pay to go see that! Good luck to Crystal and Marianne!
ReplyDeletememe and kim are obviously right!! fat people are an embarrassment to the USA.
ReplyDeleteIt is not ok to be fat. And there is a big difference from being a mere plus size from being obese. Marianne Kirby probably does not feel any adverse health effects of obesity right now but as a person ages, that's where it's going to take it's toll. Accepting the facts not only presented by medical studies but actual statistics will point out that people suffering from diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and organ failures, like liver and kidney, are all manifestations of the pitfalls of obesity. my wife is a nurse at a los angeles county trauma hospital and through her 20 plus years of experience, she has noticed that people suffering from these diseases that is brought about by obesity has become younger and younger each year. To think there is nothing wrong about feeling good about oneself no matter what your weight is just a defense mechanism to propel ones self-esteem, but it doesn't end there. I agree that it could be frustrating to be engulfed in a yo-yo diet but it does not make it any better by thinking that frustration is an excuse for not trying.
ReplyDeleteWe loved "Is it OK to be fat?" Read our comments and thoughts in The Ladies Lounge at http://www.lhj.com/blogs/ladieslounge/2010/02/24/is-it-okay-to-be-fat/
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