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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a nutshell: fat shaming does not help.[/quote]

I get that. I also get that the US needs to stop subsidies to big Agra and their health wrecking foods. Perhaps subsidize healthy foods instead and revamp the school lunch program so kids learn to eat better from a young age. Snap benefits should encourage purchase of healthy food over unhealthy food. Doctors should not fat shame but get to the root of the problem (whether endocrine or some other disorder, prescribe proven drugs, address mental health issues). Build trails and bike lanes in more places to encourage activity or subsidize gyms. I don’t what else, but address it like an epidemic. It’s a public health crisis. Use some of the money from defense to fight this.

Do all that. Where does that leave personal responsibility though? Not sure the article addresses that and I don’t have an answer. I personally know MC and UMC educated people (doctors even) who are clinically super-morbidly obese. Money and [b]education are not an issue. They are not limited to eating processed foods like some poorer people are. They live in nice neighborhoods with green space. They choose to go on cruises, steakhouses, Disney, etc and eat at the food and festivals. Desserts and sugary cocktails galore. Fat shaming doesn’t work. They have access to healthcare and healthful foods. What more can be done for them? Or do we accept that they are just fine the way they are. It’s a lifestyle[/b] and they have similar weight friends so have support from each other—to stay the way they are, to celebrate it. Don’t fat shame but what? Give them a tax incentive or disincentive?

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Did you know that when this population changes their lifestyle and moves from obesity to a healthy weight they, as a population, fail to maintain it? That dropping all those cruises and churros does not result in long term weight maintenance, even after they have proven they can and will change their lifestyle?[/quote]

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