Take a terrifying pandemic, add in a bunch of people with emotional and psychological problems, and you’ve got present-day reality.

It rarely takes more than one sentence to bring the subject around to obesity’s destructive twin, COVID-19.

The point of all this rumination about a popular TV series, The Mindy Project, is to answer a profound question: Does fat acceptance serve the greater good?

Does the acceptance factor in The Mindy Project promote and encourage fatness, or does it give women permission to accept themselves? The jury is still out.

Having considered Parks and Recreation, where obesity is handled in a light-hearted manner that still conveys a message, let’s look at more media offerings.

The very popular TV comedy Parks and Recreation makes fun of the dysfunctional government and greedy companies responsible for the obesity epidemic.

Add the fact that most of the children who have caught COVID-19 already suffered from a co-morbidity such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or obesity, and the future appears dim.

Coronavirus and obesity have teamed up to become the scourge of humanity, all around the globe. And now that younger people are getting sick too, it’s a mess.

For a while, COVID-19 got away with disguising itself as the type of predator that mainly seemed to prefer older humans. But looking back at how the virus has been treating America’s people, it is obvious that the big, major trend over the past few mon …

The young are very much in the COVID-19 news lately. It’s a race and an economic inequality thing, and also a big risk for people who are overweight or obese.

The American Rescue Plan provides $130 billion to make schools safe, and there’s a concern for children who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.

Anything that increases a child’s feeling of being loved and valued will hold at bay some of the emotional states that can lead to eating disorders and obesity.

In protecting children from obesity, one of the strongest moves is to protect them from COVID-19, which can affect the lifestyle of a previously active child.

It is no coincidence that obesity and COVID-19 have once again created a cozy partnership for the furtherance of both their interests.

Giving childhood obesity even the tiniest head start can result in a snowball effect. The earlier obesity gets a foothold the more difficult it is to escape.

An overwhelming pile of evidence and research indicates that obese women tend to produce obese children.

Maternal obesity was found to be definitely associated with metabolic dysfunction and obesity in their offspring.

Sister Amy and Tammy Slaton became known in 2014 by taking part in the “Chubby Bunny Challenge.” Then they became stars of a TV reality show, “1000-Lb Sisters.”

We have barely scratched the surface of the many bad outcomes caused by the partnership between obesity and the coronavirus.

Let’s examine further the multitude of ways in which the Grim Twins, obesity and coronavirus, conspire with each other to make so many situations worse.

The Grim Twins, obesity and coronavirus, those partners in crime, wear a lot of different masks.

People afflicted by PASC, or “long COVID,” almost unanimously report exercise intolerance and fatigue. Exercise intolerance sounds like being unable to run a marathon or lift weights, but there is more to it. People become so debilitated by the virus, …

Where does lung damage fit into the “long Covid” picture? For one, COVID-19 can cause lung damage, and obesity can soften a person up to be more vulnerable to it.

The synergy between obesity and coronavirus makes them probably the most destructive supervillain alliance on the planet at this moment in time.

Several studies explain in detail the processes and relationships in the body that influence the effect of breathing on childhood obesity, and vice versa.

Whether a care professional has a diagnosable condition or just doesn’t like obese people, patients may be given inadequate treatment or even turned away.

Cacomorphobia turns out to be a direct cause of iatrophobia, and the source of anecdotes about why many obese people avoid doctors.

Shame-based medicine can have devastating long-term effects. Sometimes, the patient feels victimized by just simple disrespect, the sense of not being believed.

Being disbelieved and discounted are on the psychic “fat tax” list, parts of an extra layer of difficulty that the obese need to overcome to seek medical help.

Far too many people have avoided health care providers because they have experienced misdiagnosis by doctors who traced every problem to the patient’s weight.