Fat-Shaming May Curb Obesity?

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  • moriuh
    moriuh Posts: 72 Member
    The only thing that's going to come from this are eating disorders and people hating themselves. I was bullied and shamed all my life for my weight and until I was 14 or 15 I hated myself. Then I just hated my weight. I'm over that now, but it's not healthy. I have friends that are size 4s who hate their bodies and it's. not. okay. We should be teaching people to love their bodies and love themselves, not shame them for not fitting the norm. We should be teaching them how to eat right, not saying "ew your fat fix that **** no one will ever love you or find you attractive if you don't". I'm not saying there aren't health issues, I'm saying let's not turn it into mental health issues too.
  • Hbazzell
    Hbazzell Posts: 899 Member
    You can bend science to say anything you want it too. Don't let that be an excuse to bend your morals.
  • mfpcopine
    mfpcopine Posts: 3,093 Member
    Fat people know they're fat, someone mocking them isn't going to help them. Also, fat shaming is already in full force. What has it done?

    Well, (dissenting opinion) I've read a lot of threads on this website titled "What was the moment that made you decide to lose weight"?

    And it was usually a shaming moment. "someone said something horrible to me", or "I saw a picture of myself that horrified me".

    There have also been health scare moments, but for a lot of people it was a shaming moment that caused them to want to change. The trouble is, THE shaming moment is going to be different for every single person, so you can't apply shame as a general "cure" for an entire group of people.

    As has been pointed out, the researcher did not use the term "fat shaming." That was The Today Show's sensationalistic editorializing. He expressed the view that there might be success with negative disincentives, similar to what happened with smoking. He understood that the kind of negative reinforcement would have to be carefully selected and he certainly didn't advocate "bullying anyone."
  • fitfreakymom
    fitfreakymom Posts: 1,400 Member
    I'm not even reading it. I can just imagine. It is putting blame in the individual and no one else is taking any blame. Look at the high processed foods that grow up eating. What about people on welfare who can only afford cans of soup, kraft dinner, etc. I think as a society we should all be looking to curb obesity. People gain weight for all kinds of reasons: depression, child birth, medications, poor diet, physical limitations. I am not trying to make excuses for people, but shaming is not a good way to go about anything. Encouragement and support? Sure. People need to feel self-determined and motivated. People need to want this change for themselves, not because they are bullied into it.

    You're not trying to make excuses for people but that's all you did, foods don't jump in ones mouth, nor does any one type of food make you fat. The chronic over consumption of calories makes you fat, who is in control of that? You are



    agreed and i was border line obese with an emotional eating issue but it was 100% my fault for being that size, I was the one who would eat 2 pieces of cake instead of one or would eat large portion sizes, eat out etc.Those were all my choices that i made for myself nobody made me eat like that. I also have to say that when people called me fat it did not make me put down the cookie lol , the choice to lose the weight was my choice to.
  • Delicate
    Delicate Posts: 625 Member
    Alot are bullied already about their own weight, why increase it? Most people who are bullied about their weight end up eating to make themselves feel better

    [sarcasm]
    Then again, lets just bully someone into an anorexic or bulimeic and give a whole host of other health problems, but atleast they will be super skinny so will be more pleasing to the eye [/sarcasm]

    A bit counter productive isnt it?

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