Well, the brouhaha over yet another celebrity statement is just getting started. This time it's Kate Moss and the offended people are, surprisingly, not fat people everywhere, but skinny people that are sick and skinny because they don't eat. As a fat person, I think Kate's comment bears further examination.

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"

It's not easy to misrepresent just exactly what Ms. Moss meant. Being thin feels better than being fat. I don't think we need to bring in doctors to nod their heads and take your taxpayer money for a government funded study to prove this either; you know it's true and so do I. Being fat feels about as healthy as smoking a couple packs of cigarettes a day. Being fat costs us and the health care system a lot of money to treat disease that is directly caused by obesity. Being fat might be great when you're sitting at the dinner table snarfing down a triple sized portion of linguine carbonara but that's as far as the good feelings go.

I'm not going to touch on actual eating disorders because people with them are not in the obese and unhealthy group I'm talking about - they're in the skinny and unhealthy group who needs to try harder to eat a 1 X portion of carbonara. The rest of us should stop and just mull over that little interview quip of Kate's: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

Having just eaten 10 fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, I'm taking that to heart and putting the cookie jar down for today. Maybe Kate is on to something here. Medical researchers have known this is true for years. Studies on rodents have proven that calorie deprived mammals live significantly longer. What does it take for us to actually change our behavior?

From my experience, it takes quite a bit. Maybe if we keep trying to remind ourselves of just this next time we are reaching for seconds and ordering dessert it will eventually settle in and remind us to stop. To just stop and eat in moderation, in healthy portions - that's all I'm shooting for. I'll never be as thin as Kate, and honestly I don't want to be, but I sure could lose a couple pounds.

I just hope that the thin and sick people don't go overboard in trying to get Kate to apologize for her words. With obesity as rampant a problem as it is today, there's real wisdom there Kate.