Being fat or overweight is the one last areas where discrimination is still currently allow in America or around the world. Fat people are ridiculed every day because they have a problem that effects their outwardly appearance.
If a doctor was to ignore you, and treat you with less respect not because of the your color or religion or sexual preferences but because you look like you eat a lot. How would you feel?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/health/16essa.html
This leads to a bigger epidemic where overweight people are less likely to get help from the professionals that can help them most. Is obesity such a heinous crime that those who are fat are treated like lepers where the thinner kids think “there’s something wrong with the larger kids?”