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Fatphobia is the real national health crisis
GetOutspoken ^ | 5/24/22 | Ann Lesby

Posted on 05/25/2022 9:04:14 PM PDT by Borges

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1 posted on 05/25/2022 9:04:14 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

This is satire but one must admit it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish.


2 posted on 05/25/2022 9:06:52 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Does this dress make me look fat?

No it doesn't. You are fat.

3 posted on 05/25/2022 9:07:29 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Borges

nobody is afraid of fatties!!!

they ARE afraid if getting fat though...


4 posted on 05/25/2022 9:11:21 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Borges

Obese tubs of lard should diet and get medical help.


5 posted on 05/25/2022 9:13:11 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Borges

All true, but…

If the avoirdupois privileged in US slimmed to an easy 23% body fat then the resultant drop in carbon emissions would be equal to taking 130,000,000 cars off the road and dousing every light in Las Vegas.

Gotta save the planet.


6 posted on 05/25/2022 9:16:32 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: Borges
"A fat person is not an unhealthy person. While it is true that fatness can lead to serious and sometimes fatal medical conditions..."

Contradiction #1, very early on.

It is normal to gain weight every now and then. Gaining weight during plentiful seasons was essential to preindustrial hunter/gatherers, which they would need when hunting and gathering were not so plentiful. But to be fat constantly for most of your life is not good for you.
7 posted on 05/25/2022 9:18:42 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Borges

Glad it said ‘Humor’ at the top. I would have quit reading when I saw ‘folx’.


8 posted on 05/25/2022 9:22:23 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Borges

Satire.

Phobia. A word first borrowed by five freshmen smoking a blunt in the dorm.


9 posted on 05/25/2022 9:22:35 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Borges
If this is what the west calls healthy, I'm glad I live in the east.


10 posted on 05/25/2022 9:22:36 PM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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It doesn’t take much for people to add a great deal of weight. An injury. Value meals. HFCS. Doritos.

The 600 lb life people clearly need surgery, but even most of them fail.

Weight loss has its own set of obstacles. “Improve your diet and exercise! Jesus, it’s easy!!”

Turns out it’s not. Weight loss inevitably will include muscle, and lost muscle means lower BMR. People following diet and exercise precisely with no changes WILL hit a wall. They will be defeated by their own success. BMR going down forces them to do more to achieve the same thing, and most people will not know this. Frustration arrives, and then resignation to failure.

It’s pretty easy for people to add 40-50 pounds during an injury. It’s not easy, per the above, to erase them after it heals.

It’s an astonishing thing to discover that eating 500 fewer calories than you burn per day loses weight effectively for a couple of months and then stops. I watch it happen often. If you don’t get in the ear of that person, they will give up.


11 posted on 05/25/2022 9:25:17 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Borges

Yes, well done, and so close to the mark.


12 posted on 05/25/2022 9:29:15 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Borges

What in the name of Ren and Stimpy did I just read?


13 posted on 05/25/2022 9:30:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Jamestown1630

“The concept of physical attractiveness was invented by the patriarchy”

I know that is supposed to be humor but it sounds like something the lefties would say...


14 posted on 05/25/2022 9:32:01 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Read the name of the “author” last name first. :)


15 posted on 05/25/2022 9:32:15 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

It reads like something someone wrote to get a passing grade in a college class.


16 posted on 05/25/2022 9:38:08 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Borges

Yes, it is - very difficult.


17 posted on 05/25/2022 9:38:13 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Borges

Her/she is serious as a heart attack read her twatter pages.

This is “its” self description.

“Head of Gender Studies at ACL Univ. Author of “Antiracist Fetus” 1/8 Black neurodivergent semitrans demisexual lesbian who dates men. “


18 posted on 05/25/2022 9:40:11 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Chode

I am not afraid of fat people.

I am concerned about some of them in close proximity to me, depending how they are acting. I might not be able to push some of them off me if the worst possibility occurred.


19 posted on 05/25/2022 9:40:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: WMarshal

See…there you go, confirming the bias.


20 posted on 05/25/2022 9:40:54 PM PDT by tinamina
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