Fat-shaming is a less heavy issue than dying of Covid-19
Fat-shaming is a less heavy issue than dying of Covid-19
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IMO we spend too much time obsessing about the personal lives of people we deem to be idols.
She's a decent singer and her songs appeal to many. Everything else is just trivial. I remember seeing this sign in a post office: Small minds talk about other people
Median minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas. Let's strive for the higher minded end. Bob |
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This shows the ignorance of the person who wrote this article. I reversed my obesity without willpower and without medical intervention. I reversed it through gaining knowledge and the experience that knowledge allowed me to have. This article has very much a blame the victim vibe. This is a complex and important issue, the relationship of weight to health, and now especially Covid-19, but to fall back on blaming a lack of will power or what medical intervention, perhaps it is bariatric surgery or a low fat diet that are the medical interventions alluded to, is to fall back on a discredited way of viewing obesity. This is an important subject and it needs a more carefully thought out and nuanced discussion, not this rush to judgment blame the victim approach. This article seems just another example of fat shaming couched in the usual "it's their health I am worried about" justification with the added justification of "and the health of other people with whom they come in contact." |
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Now I view "willpower" as the ability to consistently make positive and healthy choices. This is the willpower to sustain a long marriage (even through the rocky bits), to keep up an exercise routine (more about that in a minute), or, in quarantine times, to refrain from murdering one or more of your young children at home. :o Willpower can wear out unless force of habit is firmly established. These days, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I do my BTN workout ("Better than nothing") Only knowing that I don't have to kill myself with exercise helps me sustain a habit that reaches back forty years. On many Mondays (that would be today) willpower alone does that. Good habits are so easily abandoned. The pressure is on right now to dive into so-called comfort foods. I mean, we're facing something like life and death every single day if we should so much as step out the door. Wouldn't chocolate brownies help a little?? Willpower. |
It is not willpower, but satiety and good health, that keeps me eating vLC for life. The only "willpower" I need is to keep junk out of the house.
The government & mainstream doctors' low-cal low-fat diets required white-knuckle willpower to resist the massive cravings for carbs (even just the healthywholegrains that they recommended) that these diets triggered, for 35 years! Atkins & the Eades got me started on my journey to health w/satiety. I did have success on Atkins in the early 1970s, but with mainstream doctors, nutritionists & the US Senate slamming such "fad" diets deterred me. Now I don't follow the mainstream. |
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As an friend from the old asdlc days put it, "It's like trying to hold a beachball underwater. You can hold it underwater for a while, but eventually you'll get too tired and the beachball will shoot up into the air. We definitely need a better paradigm than "clearly you just don't have enough willpower" to address this situation! |
The article sums up how viciously some movements can turn on their own. People shouldn't be treated badly because of their size. At the same time, metabolic issues are serious health risks, and one of the symptoms is excess weight. Sometimes.
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Love it!! |
What in the hell did I just read? I feel dumber for doing it.
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