Can I say that 'substancially overweight' people are unhealthy?
Is that generalization true or false?
If you want to generalize that "substantially overweight" people are unhealthy, then I can also generalize and say that husbands are unfaithful to their wives..... since the percentages are approximately the same.
Unlike you, I don't like making generalizations where there is that much margin of error and where there are many variables that determine the factor. There are, in fact, many more variables that determine "health" than there are that determine infidelity. This makes using a single variable to predict an outcome (using weight to predict health) much less likely.
It would be more accurate for you to say that
the majority of substantially overweight people are not healthy. The research shows that there are substantially overweight people who are healthy, and that a better indicator is where the fat is carried-- not the weight.
I simply disagree. Letting go of your physical condition by being grossly overweight effects all aspects of you're marriage and family life and you are letting the team down by not contributing like you should be. It's a sin.
Is this your opinion based upon assumptions that these people are not contributing as they should be? Again, you are assuming that people who are overweight do not eat right, do not exercise, and are lazy. That may be true for many people who are overweight, but it is far from true for all. By you making these sweeping generalizations, you are calling people "sinners" who indeed are not. There are overweight people who eat better, exercise more, and are healthier than their thin counterparts...... yet based upon weight you are calling them sinners. You also talk about "letting go" of ones physical condition. Again, not all individuals who are overweight got that way due to poor eating and no exercising. Yet, you are blaming the individual for biological factors beyond their control.
Are you serious? Can a quadraplegic grow his limbs back? No! Can a fat person lose weight? YES!
Quadraplegic's often have their limbs. There is no issue of growing them back.
Not all fat people can lose weight. Are you expecting overweight people to change their genetic makeup? Sure, many overweight people could lose weight, and are overweight due to poor eating and lack of exercise-- but not all. There are a good number whose weight is beyond their control. It is sad to paint them all with the same brush and call their weight a sin when in fact it may not be in that particular individual.
The sin of gluttony produces weight and the weight effects activity. Stop the sin and you bring the weight down and you'll be more active with your family.
The sin of gluttony may or may not produce weight. Some thin people can eat as much junk as they want, never exercise, and never gain a pound. I have known more than enough people who fit that category.
I used to know a woman who was often underweight, and she would brag about how poorly she ate. She recognized and would boast that if most people ate the way she did they would be huge. Yet, she knew that her lack of weight had nothing to do with how she ate or her lack of exercise.
The mascot at my kids school is an example of the opposite end of the spectrum. Granted, I have never observed how she eats or what she eats. I can honestly say that she is extremely active and her weight does not affect her activity. Not only is she the school mascot, but she has more energy, more pep, and more activity than all of the cheerleaders put together-- and it is not limited to while she is on the field. She not only does all the cheers, just as good as the cheerleaders, but she also is constantly dancing to the music in between cheers, running back and forth down the sideline, etc.
I know a guy who is underweight and maybe 120 soaking wet. This guy smokes, eats like a hog and not healthy food-- all junk, any junk, fatty foods in excess all the time-- and he never exercises. Yet he is another who can not gain weight if he tried.
Then there is a woman I know who was a health food nut, drinking green drinks and things of that nature, she exercised, type A, and was of normal weight until she was diagnosed with a hereditary hypothyroid condition that is 90% heritable in her family. At the point she was diagnosed it was shutting down her internal organs. But she also gained weight as a result of it. She is unable to lose the weight, because it causes her thyroid to become unstable and erratic.
But by your logic, the overweight people are sinners suffering from the sin of gluttony, while those thin people are not.
BTW I could give you dozens more examples than just those. Even the research supports what I am saying.
and you clarified that it was a typo. 
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