Underweight people bear a heavy burden, too.

Underweight people bear a heavy burden, too There's a minority of individuals in our society who receive scant sympathy as they lament that the time for beachwear is fast approaching. The disfavored few, of course, are the underweight. And really, you wonder, why should anyone care about their plight? What wouldn't you give to be able to eat anything you wanted?

But life is not a bowl of chocolate-covered cherries for the too-thin, the ones who are at least 10 to 15 percent below desirable weight but do not want to be. Just like people who are too fat, they often have a poor self-image. After all, few women want to be entirely without curves, and few men want to look like the …