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fat city

lex

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interesting article

"This is where the obesity-as-disease concept leads us – to a situation in which people demand that medicine shoulder the responsibility. What about the responsibility of the individual? And of society?"

Fat City - What can stop obesity? | Karen Hitchcock | The Monthly

" The state’s bariatric ambulance must be mobilised. (A standard ambulance can only take a person weighing up to 220 kg.)"

"The other option, always unspoken, is: let us have our cake. Let’s just eat and eat, get fatter and fatter, and work out how best to live with it. This is where we are heading now: fatness, outside of morality, as an accepted consequence of the world as we have made it.

We can decide as a country, as a world, that we are going to consume what we have until we’re done, eating as much as we wish and treating all the concomitant diseases by diverting substantial amounts of government revenue into medicine and pharmaceuticals. If we do choose this path – and we are most of the way there already – we must be honest about what we are choosing to do: to spend our country’s money on the consequences of indiscriminate consumption."
 
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"We live in a society that judges people for being fat, yet has in place every possible means for making them so"

Got to be the single most important line in that article
 
"We live in a society that judges people for being fat, yet has in place every possible means for making them so"

Got to be the single most important line in that article

Still its a cop out. People have every tool available to not be fat if they don't want to be.
 
Still its a cop out. People have every tool available to not be fat if they don't want to be.


Exactly.

Gastric bands should be banned IMO.

People eat their way to become FAT, they also have the option to eat healthy and exercise daily and reverse that.
 
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