Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
highline.huffingtonpost.comEverything? Reduced fertility? Associated metabolic disease? Joint issues later in life?
If you mean "the stereotypes don't admit the functional, healthy obese person" i get it but not everything said about the risks of obesity is wrong.
Whats wrong, is objectification. The article fundamentally is about this, and toxic for profit health system consequences.
Hospitals have to build special operating theatre fitout, imaging systems, even wheelchairs to deal with larger size people. Some forms of surgery do incur higher risk. Diagnosis is harder. Are they insurmountable problems? No. Are they therefore not problems "really"? I don't know.
I do know I agree with a lot the article said. The bodies sense of homeostasis for weight appears to only have an upwards ratchet, and its harder for women (without diminishing how hard weight objectification is for men and kids)
I agree that the headline is sensationalised and exaggerated, and that despite the headline the article itself is actually interesting and changed my mind about a couple of things. I think it describes a fat person’s perspective on and experience with the medical profession well.
Yes. I spent a lot of time wondering how you could say to a patient as a doctor "my treatment options are now limited by your weight" and it not be confronting or hard.
eg an ultrasound technician fighting belly fat, trying to image something underlying, and the unavoidable issues around "if you had less this diagnostic would be simpler"
The woman with gall bladder issues got really short shrift in the article. She wasn't properly diagnosed.
I'm confused. The article states:
Fructose, for example, appears to damage insulin sensitivity and liver function more than other sweeteners with the same number of calories.
but:
(https://foodinsight.org/what-is-fructose/) Fructose is also known as “fruit sugar” because it primarily occurs naturally in many fruits. It also occurs naturally in other plant foods such as honey, sugar beets, sugar cane and vegetables.
and the article specifically recommends eating more fruit and vegetables.
I would assume that “fructose as a sweetener” means fructose separated from fruits and vegetables and added to other foods, such as adding high fructose corn syrup to cookies.
everything is not my fault