OT Want to just feel good?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/21/health/weight-health-connecti…

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It’s important to understand that the studies that point to terrible health outcomes for people with higher body fat can only point to correlation, not causation, Larmie said.

This statement about getting along with who you are regardless is totally false. Being overweight is causality for a lot of health problems. The hormones in the body are altered greatly. Other effects from that are known.

I know one man age 45 who is way overweight and has no problems. He is lucky. Much of his family is very sick or dead. He expects the problems to catch up with him eventually.

The author of this is article is helping CNN sell soap.

As I get older I discuss health with more and more friends. It is tough people can not get good care. Some are very lost as to where to turn or what to believe. The charlatans are feeding on them.

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It’s important to understand that the studies that point to terrible health outcomes for people with higher body fat can only point to correlation, not causation, Larmie said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/21/health/weight-health-connecti…

Leap1,

It’s morally wrong to say things that make people feel bad about their weight, their habits, their behavior, or about any of their life decisions.

Trying to impose one’s standards or expectations upon another is a form of oppression, according to postmodernist philosophy.

postmodernism, also spelled post-modernism, in Western philosophy, a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy

Fat-shaming is NOT OK under the currently prevailing moral code or medical practice.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fat-shaming-makes-thing…

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Notehound, this being the internet, maybe Leap1 thinks your satirical comment is serious. Maybe you should have put at the end.

:wink:

Wendy (imagining the way sane people will recall the nuttiness of the 2020s in 25 years)

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Fat-shaming is NOT OK under the currently prevailing moral code or medical practice.

Coincidentally excess fat happens to be good for the Healthcare Industrial Complex, so NO FAT SHAMING!

The Captain
woman goes for a checkup. The doctor’s diagnostic, “you’re fat.” The outraged woman says, “I want a second opinion!” “You’re ugly.”

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Note and Wendy,

Although all forms of humor are lost on me…or were…since my 50 lbs weight loss I seem to hear again. Fat in the ears? Or between the ears? It is unclogged.

Seriously my Ophthalmologist loved the results. Turns out eye pressure can radically drop with a 50 lbs weight loss. I needed to see you to shame you.