Taking responsibility for obesity
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This is a brilliant article.
The author, Karen Hitchcock, is a doctor and writer.
She makes some interesting and excellent observations and gives an insight into a doctor's perspective when dealing with obese patients, often with chronic disease.
http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city
The author, Karen Hitchcock, is a doctor and writer.
She makes some interesting and excellent observations and gives an insight into a doctor's perspective when dealing with obese patients, often with chronic disease.
http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city
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I read this today and really enjoyed it.0
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Thanks for sharing, loved it.0
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Very much agree with this also. Good read.0
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Great article ... thanks for sharing!0
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loved this article! Thank you0
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Wow, this is a thought provoking article that is very sad and depressing. I'm glad I read it.0
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Wow....just wow. Thank you so much for posting this article. It's a real wake up call for me.0
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Wonderful article. Thanks for sharing.0
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What a great read! Thanks for posting the link0
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Great article, thanks for posting it.0
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Thanks!!! Bump!0
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Wow...great article. Depressing, yes, but insightful and interesting.0
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I read that article last night and I think it brings up some excellent points. I was talking to my employee at work about it today. She has MS and is quite young. She is always upbeat and very positive. Her take on it is why would anyone not do something about being obese? After all, they CAN do something about it before is seriously affects their health. Others are not so lucky.0
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I had a friend who had been anorexic and spent her teenage years in and out of hospital, being fed through a nasogastric tube. She recovered in her 20s and managed to channel all of her intrusive obsessional thinking about food into athletics. One day she said to me that she didn’t understand why she could be hospitalised against her will for not eating enough, and yet there was no limitation on how fat you could get. It was completely unfair, she said, that you could be refused alcohol if intoxicated but roll into your local fish-and-chip shop 100 kg overweight and be served the equivalent of a week’s worth of calories for lunch.
That right there. Just WOW!0 -
"He has no friends, no money to buy other consumables, little education, no partner, no job. Some days he doesn’t leave his bed. The choice for him is to eat this food or experience no pleasure. "
Wow, that hits a little close to home, and for myself, strikes to the heart of the matter (sans the education and job part).0 -
Oh hey, I don't think it's depressing. I think it's a wake up call to everyone ... we should be taking responsibility for our health.
I think the message is that doctors can feel helpless when faced with patients who are obese or who rock up asking for a solution that doesn't involve them actually doing something positive about their own diet (and exercise, lifestyle).
I like that she encourages a focus away from aesthetics and more on health. This is important for everyone and a good message for anyone at the extremes of healthy weight, whether obese or extremely underweight.0 -
I had a friend who had been anorexic and spent her teenage years in and out of hospital, being fed through a nasogastric tube. She recovered in her 20s and managed to channel all of her intrusive obsessional thinking about food into athletics. One day she said to me that she didn’t understand why she could be hospitalised against her will for not eating enough, and yet there was no limitation on how fat you could get. It was completely unfair, she said, that you could be refused alcohol if intoxicated but roll into your local fish-and-chip shop 100 kg overweight and be served the equivalent of a week’s worth of calories for lunch.
That right there. Just WOW!
yes I loved that too. As someone who also had anorexia in her teens, I used to wonder the same thing :O0 -
Great read. Thanks for posting.0
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thanks for sharing. There is someone that I really wish I could show this to but I would just be told that I'm "judging" her or something along those lines...0
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