I’m having trouble figuring out if we’re racist for ignoring the obesity “epidemic”, or if we’re racist for fat shaming.
Fast food and sedentary lifestyle is the cause of childhood obesity for 90+% of rolly-polly kids.
Problem is the cell phone lifestyle & x-box displacing ordinary play, running & riding bikes, spending more time on the internet than sleeping. That is the reason why child obesity is an issue in the US but nearly nowhere else, and why it didn’t exist in this country until the last couple of decades.
It’s not hard. The “explanations” and “cures” that pile up are meant to avoid exercise and preserve that lazy lifestyle and their parents who would rather give their kid a box of pills than take them on a hike.
It’s all bullsh*t.
What happens is (a) money for the medical establishment, and (b) guilt and shame for the plump ones.
...unless you want the FBI raiding people's homes looking to see if they have any unauthorized records of how much their kid weighed at one point or another?
They medicalize everything they can for money and power.
same as when alcoholism became a “disease”
insurance got into the game...
What happens ... well some government agencies expand like crazy, some commercial entities get huge government grants and subsidies and fat people get a bye.
“The guidelines sidestep a guiding principle in the practice of medicine: First, do no harm.”
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Is this psychiatrist speaking out against transvestite mutilation of children and abortion as well?
There is one downside to BMI: You may bot be carrying fat as wright. I’m a good example.
As a teen, I was going into kidney failure, which meant that I didn’t urinate normally - my disease made me spill protein. That caused me to hold water. 100lbs. of it. I’m a small woman, so my BMI was high, but little of it was body fat.
In circumstances like that where an illness goes undetected for a decade, it does little to measure BMI. If anything, it had perpetuated a delay of diagnosis thanks to everyone, including doctors, believing that I was just a fatty.
Along with BMI, other labs need to be taken and various aspects of one’s health need monitoring.
In all though, this is the right way to go about it. You can’t sugar coat this stuff. You have to be really blunt with people who have food addiction and struggle with their self-control.