Obesity: A Moving Monument To A Person’s Failures

On Obesity And Its Ramifications

I am sure most of us have seen the studies showing that weight is strongly correlated to intelligence. The more overweight you are, the less intelligent you are. If you haven’t read them yet, they are not hard to find. Use your non-obese intelligence to go find them.¹

But even without scientific studies, we all intuitively know this fact. It does not take science to prove it. We all just know it from life experience.

This intuition surrounding obesity works for more than just intelligence. If you see someone massively overweight, you immediately know certain things about them.

The two of the most obvious are:

Again, that they are less intelligent, because they do not know how to get their eating or fitness under control.
They have incredibly low willpower and will not be ambitious/determined, because they do not have the discipline to reduce their weight.

We know this is true. Because we all instinctively know that no one wants to be fat. So if someone is fat, it is because they lack the willpower or the knowledge needed to change their condition. Therefore, they are defective in one (or both) of these areas.

Thus, obesity becomes a living, walking monument to a person’s lack of willpower or intelligence.

A lot of the obese complain that they don’t have time to lose weight, but again—This indicates a lack of intelligence. This is because it does not take time to lose weight, especially for someone grossly overweight. It literally saves time, because all you have to do is eat less. Spend less time eating. Eat two meals a day instead of three. That is quantifiably all you have to do. It saves time. There is no excuse besides one of the above two character failures.

In a way, though, obesity is also a marker for me that a person hates beauty. Because they don’t seek beauty through sculpting themselves. They are fine in seeing the opposite in the mirror daily. And frankly, I have never known an obese person to care much about the arts or architecture. When a person gives over to their base desires, such as overeating, I think their perception of beauty gets distorted over time.

Which is not a great combo. Low intelligence, non-existent willpower, and a disdain for beauty. Ouch.

Obesity, in an odd way, becomes the opposite of the Three Transcendentals: Truth, goodness, and beauty. In the obese equation, truth is replaced with a lack of knowledge, goodness is replaced with the sin of gluttony, and beauty is replaced with a never-ending fractal of fatrolls.

We can apply the same logic to other large sins, like adultery, murder, theft, and lying. Sin often leads to physical changes in a person, and obesity is probably the biggest and most obvious one (pun intended).

But our culture, since the full of Christendom, has allowed this particular sin to explode in mass. We don’t fight back against it anymore, we just let it sloth on the sidelines. We’ve become soft; squishy even.

This happens even though food addiction is a sin that can ruin a life just as easily as a drug addiction. Look around our society; obesity is ruining lives daily and everywhere.

Regardless of anyone’s feelings on the subject, gluttony is a sin (Proverbs 23:20-21 / Philippians 3:19). And you cannot become obese without being a glutton. If you consistently indulge and live in such a sin, God punishes accordingly. With lower beauty, intelligence, and drive.

Then, that punishment extends to a visual representation for everyone else to see. The obese become walking monuments to the ramifications of their sin.

They provide a perfect example for the Christian of the way not to go.

For us, we must prioritize self-control and proper stewardship of what we are gifted (including our own bodies). We should eat well and graciously strive for better health (I have an article on how to do so here).

Your body is a temple (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Treat it as such.

Start here when seeking research on the obesity/intelligence correlation:
-Longitudinal studies, such as the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, demonstrate that individuals who become obese have lower adulthood IQ scores compared to those who remain lean.
-Brain imaging studies show structural and functional abnormalities in obese individuals, including lower intelligence quotients (IQs), as early as adolescence.
-Prospective longitudinal data from multiple nations (Sweden, New Zealand, and the UK) uniformly conclude that lower intelligence leads to BMI gains and obesity, rather than the reverse.
-A study examining the relationship between maternal and offspring intelligence and BMI across childhood and adolescence found that lower intelligence in youth is associated with higher BMI, obesity, and weight gain in adulthood.
-A community-based cross-sectional study in preschool children showed an association between lower IQ scores and higher BMI. ↩︎

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