Reply to Do attitudes about obesity cause more harm than obesity itself?

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Do attitudes about obesity cause more harm than obesity itself?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well I mean if being overweight weren’t harmful there would be less attitude, they feel the same way about smokers and people who abuse alcohol. There’s no need to shame people. But the intersection of obesity with the body-beautiful movement is kind of wrong headed in that there is a real health cost to being fat.[/quote]

Yeah, but the reason this movement has gained traction is because of the attitudes against fat people. When, as PP did, you go to a doctor and tell them that you are dealing with extreme grief and would like mental health care, and they write you a "prescription" for exercise, there's a pretty valid criticism of that health care provider. Now multiply that times the thousands of these interactions happening and it's a valid criticism of health care providers in general. And if you become convinced that the health care system as a whole isn't competent to listen to your concerns then why listen to their concerns about your body?

My own personal story is that my weight was a constant concern of my mother's from the time I would a young teen. When I was a healthy weight in HS she offered me $1000 to lose 20 lbs. that would have put me below a healthy BMI for my height. She was never verbally or emotionally abusive - never name called, etc. - but my weight was always on her mind. And so it was always on mine. As a result I was never satisfied with how I looked and deprived myself the joy of having a strong body regardless of the number on the scale. And when I did gain weight during a period of depression it was easy to tell myself I was never good enough so why did it matter.[/quote]

A sad story, but has nothing to do with the point of this thread which is people who are fat or obese. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics