Weight Issues, Body-Image Issues, And Self-Esteem Issues On ABC's "The View"

Recently, on ABC Television's, The View, the cast spent some time talking about Weight issues and perceptions in this culture - and other cultures - through the years and around the world. At issue is the media-propagated images that make women feel fat even when they are perfectly healthy. Whoopi Goldberg even mentioned a recent study that found a majority of women would rather have cancer than be fat! Women would be doing themselves a huge favor by doing some serious thinking about the way they have been conditioned to think. They are being programmed to hate themselves, their bodies, and their lives; and it is that hatred that keeps making matters worse.