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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
There are few disorders/diseases that make obesity inevitable, one of them being a leptin deficiency which affects very few people. This paragraph of yours makes it sound like everyone who is overweight is a helpless, peer pressure driven ignoramus. Certainly obesity is linked to genetics, as well as a multitude of other things, but at the end of the day 99% of people have control over their weight, and most do not choose to exert it - willingly.
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I'm not that definite about that. I mean, I get why you'd say that, but I feel that it's assuming that people: a/ know all the information about what makes you fat and what not, b/ have the time to commit to eat better/cook their own meals and exercise, c/ have the money to buy better food, d/ are free of psychological biases or troubles. In practice, obesity is more prevalent in low income households, which makes b/ and c/ fail: processed foods are the cheapest (and the worst for you), and low-income families have less money to spend (basically, you'd get a healthy snack like an apple or something, but all they can afford is Cheetos), and fast food is very cheap around those parts and takes way less time than cooking at home and low-income families have less time to cook cause they have to worry about other urgent stuff. I'm not saying it's like that for everyone, there must be some lazy people who have the time but just can't be arsed to do something about it, but a lot of poor people are, say, single moms, that genuinely can't afford that time and money. And as for d/, with the fat shaming and all, I'm pretty sure a lot of fat people have low self esteem and feel lonely, pretty sure some fat people think "I can't do that, I'll fail and people will mock me" or something like that.
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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
I think that this piece of advice extends to a lot more than being ashamed of exercising, but at some point you just have to stop caring what people think. There are routes that exist to help people in this situation if they so desire.
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Like? Again, if you're poor, you can't afford therapy, and you also might not have time or energy for transcendental meditation or socializing or whatever. I know you can say "then make time for it", but it must be more complicated than that when you're behind all your bills and your kid is sick and you can't afford a sitter.
And if you just mean "come on, stop caring about what other people think", pretty sure it's very hard, that you have to have good friends to support you for that anyways, and that when you're being publicly bullied, made fun of, laughed at by loudmouths, this advice sounds pretty inadequate... I'm not saying some people can't do it, just that it's not an advice that works in general.
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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
Certainly skinny people can be very unhealthy, but the World Cancer Research Fund highest recommendation to preventing cancer is to be as lean as possible. I thought I'd provide an example rather than just claiming the opposite.
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This is interesting - do you know if it's any cancer, or more the colorectal and other gut-related cancers?