"Above all, I don’t believe sport is good for young people"

I love this line: " Above all,  I don’t believe sport is good for young people because it merely alienates the not-so-capable,..."

Ahh yes, everyone MUST be EQUAL.  God forbid we do anything that would demonstrate differences between individuals, because of course the real world is a place of total equality.

Hey Liz, we could say the same about math grades, "it alienates the not so capable..." so I guess math is bad too, or should we just give everybody an A?

I hate this "everybody must be equal" attitude!

Pictures speak better than words so I'll let you all decide.  Who's "hotter"?

Triathlete, hard-body...

or

Writer, shop-a-holic...

I'll take me some Jessi muscles any day, night, hour, moment...

Precisely.  With every Facebook share, Tweet, post on a forum, the author of the next ridiculous article is further encouraged.

If she believes what she wrote, she's an idiot.

If she wrote it for the response, she's got no integrity.

She wrote it to generate traffic and sell ad space.

So, option 2. The zero integrity one.

Also, stop trying to rationalize it away and let me be angry

Her seat is too high. Way way way too high.

x2

The truth is love her or hate her... it's all ratings. There is no news or reporting anymore.... the only people that get any play (ratings) are those that sit around and think up some ridiculous crap to write to stir a pot and cause some drama. Don't feed the trolls.

I was able to get a comment in yesterday... here is what I wrote:

Everyone has their strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes. There is no reason to belittle those who excel at something in which you don't. This type of behaviour is immature and unprofessional at best, especially when it's ignoring and discounting the obvious benefits of living a healthy lifestyle.

Agree to an extent, but this was not some anonymous "troll" on a message board. It was a hired, professional "journalist" (yes in air quotes) writing for a corporate entity. It completely degrades the profession of journalism, to pass off her opinion as news/fact. It's disgusting and her editor should be fired. 

I understand there are many "journalists" out there on cable media channels who do similar things, but it's always under the guise of "opinion". 
  
Maybe Tony can chime in as he's in the field over there, but that web site - and many UK "news" sites - read like a tabloid most of the time. Just skimming the front page articles though, they seemed fairly "newsy" and consistent with what I'd expect out of a site like that.  With a huge exception to that article.

She is from the UK

Nuff said.

Calling the Daily Mail "journalism" is always a stretch.  It is a sensationalist paper.  They have real newspapers over there, of course, but that is just a tabloid.

I do not believe that slip-shod "journalism" as practiced by the writer is good for young people, or anyone for that matter. The poorly researched badly articulated thoughts are disjointed and without merit. Relating things to ones own limited experiences and then drawing large conclusions does not prove the writer's point. Rather is emphasizes the fact that she is in the wrong profession.

Leave the deep thoughts to people trained to think objectively and in depth and go get a job serving fast food.

You didn't think this was clearly an opinion piece?  She's a commentator on the fashion industry.  I browsed a few of her other articles.  I would think she would describe any of the ones I saw as  opinion pieces, and certainly not "journalism."  It would be like saying Joan Rivers and her daughter are journalists when they host that show about people's clothes at the Oscars.

ETA: After reading a couple of her articles, I'm starting to think the one in the OP is a more similar to The Onion than The New York Times.  And she's saying, "Gotcha."

I guess here in the US, pieces are clearly labeled "editorial" or "opinion" on news web sites. Or backed up with actual facts to give an ounce of credibility.

DougRob's post at the bottom of Page 1 sums up what I think as well.
  

Yeah, I read that as well.  I'm still trying to figure out what deep thoughts the author was trying to convey.  I think the whole article was a joke - literally.

Public figures get scrutinized, and criticized, based on their physical appearance quit constantly.