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WaPo Slams ‘Diet Culture,’ Calls to Help Kids Resist ‘Anti-Fat Expectations’
Breitbart ^ | 04/28/2023 | JOSHUA KLEIN

Posted on 04/28/2023 12:44:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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Kate cohen sounds like a real fat loser
1 posted on 04/28/2023 12:44:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Hey fatty, there were NO fat children when I grew up in the 60’s and early 70’s. Now 8 out of 10 are OBESE


2 posted on 04/28/2023 12:46:07 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gluttony leads to obesity and sloth.


3 posted on 04/28/2023 12:46:27 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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“Gluttony leads to obesity and sloth.”

But that is SO judgmental. /s


4 posted on 04/28/2023 12:48:03 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What now? is fat going to become another letter on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum of privileged pathologies?


5 posted on 04/28/2023 12:48:29 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe she owns lots of stock in those pharmaceutical companies selling weight loss drugs. Because at some point many of those obese children will find it is not so easy to take weight off and turn to anti-obesity drugs. It might happen while they are still young or when they are older.

It won’t be societal pressure that makes them want to lose weight. It will be their health status. It may also be insurance costs linked to risk factors.


6 posted on 04/28/2023 12:51:03 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t think people should be shamed... but let’s not leave health out of the equation here. Physical health of course, but also mental. Dieting can be just as obsessive as eating - they can both be disorders. Both can lead to poor outcomes. Losing excess weight for health is a good thing. It’s just that the health incentive to do so is often years or decades down the road so there is seldom any urgency to lose weight other than the social stigma, until the doctor tells you you have diabetes, heart disease, need medications or stent or bypass surgery etc.

The inverse is also true for those with being skinny obsessions.


7 posted on 04/28/2023 12:52:17 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Obesity concern is about quality of life not deep seated bias.

Just try getting dates as an obese person. No matter how they stomp their feet that isn’t going to change.


8 posted on 04/28/2023 12:52:42 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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Being overweight is a health hazard. Leftists want people dead. Being significantly overweight will get you there.

We can’t hurt their feelings about their weight, and we can’t put put pressure on them to lose weight, but there is not a thing wrong with letting them die with weight issues!!!!!!!!!

Commie Rat leftists are evil, plain and simple.


9 posted on 04/28/2023 12:53:08 PM PDT by RatRipper
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Ain’t that the truth !


10 posted on 04/28/2023 12:54:53 PM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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Partly I agree.

There are people who are starving their children of necessary nutrients because they fear them being "fat". These people are generally vegans.

On the other hand we have a bunch of parents who do not bother to monitor their child's diet and the kids are not "pudgy" but down right fat.

Pudgy is a stage a child goes through right before a growth spurt. A summer of running around outside and they have shot up three inches and now are skinny.

Fat is something quite different. It never goes away.

11 posted on 04/28/2023 12:57:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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These people are sick and evil.


12 posted on 04/28/2023 12:57:33 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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I do not remember any either. I was not overweight then at all. That did not happen until marriage into a “fat” family


13 posted on 04/28/2023 12:58:39 PM PDT by madison10
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Like it or not, guys are pre-programmed to be attracted to healthy-looking young girls...and nothing will change that.


14 posted on 04/28/2023 12:58:58 PM PDT by BobL
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Join Fatties United (or FU). Contact Mark Levin for details.


15 posted on 04/28/2023 1:00:27 PM PDT by windsorknot
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The left wants kids to be fat and stupid.


16 posted on 04/28/2023 1:02:04 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joe Biden said, “Listen, fat!”


17 posted on 04/28/2023 1:02:55 PM PDT by windsorknot
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Education changes behavior, whether about diet or spiritual health. People make choices and there’s a thing called “repentance” which means to change one’s mind- change how one looks at food, life, love, God.... Sin is sin- not living according to what brings life and love resulting in destroying the temple of the Holy Spirit and others. Food won’t fill the hole in their soul, and continuing to use that behavior will attract demons to take up residence. “Do you hate me because I tell you the truth?” Maybe the doctor needed to tell the person with more love, compassion and education. Regardless, Jesus didn’t come to condemn the world and if blame is to be laid, it is one’s ego that didn’t receive the correction as an opportunity to grow and go from glory to glory.


18 posted on 04/28/2023 1:11:14 PM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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19 posted on 04/28/2023 1:11:20 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Dems loot & riot -called "protesting" by media. Repub's protest -called "looting & rioting" by media)
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If you have a voice, speak out against Big Food. Americans are fat because Big Food sells them crappy food that makes them fat, THEN hands them over to Big Diet to make more money on their fat bodies. Americans have much to learn about nutrition and health, but “normalizing” obesity is a step in the wrong direction.


20 posted on 04/28/2023 1:12:23 PM PDT by LizzieD
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