Fat City article - Why obesity is not your doctor’s problem
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gmallan
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Incredibly powerful article by Karen Hitchcock an Australian doctor and writer on the obesity epidemic. If this doesn't make you want to lose weight then nothing will.
http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city
The choice is in your hands. Are you going to eat it?
http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848247/karen-hitchcock/fat-city
The choice is in your hands. Are you going to eat it?
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This was an extremely interesting article. Thank you for posting.0
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This was an extremely interesting article. Thank you for posting.
No worries, I started reading it and just couldn't stop. I hadn't seen it floating around the forums and just had to share0 -
Wow, what a great and thought-provoking article.
Thanks for sharing!0 -
Thanks for posting. That blew my mind at least 3 times!0
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Thanks, I enjoyed that.
The Monthly is well worth subscribing to IMO.0 -
who else googled "what i ate when i was fat"?
i should just print this and hang it on my fridge.0 -
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Wow, what an impressive article.
Thanks for posting.0 -
Thank you! It was very interesting.0
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who else googled "what i ate when i was fat"?
i should just print this and hang it on my fridge.
I did!0 -
Thanks for sharing! A little long but definitely worth reading.
From the article: "Why not plaster packets of chips and chocolate with full-colour photographs of the rot that grows under an apron of fat, or a gangrenous foot caused by diabetes? ... Any public-health campaign to curb obesity would need to be graphic, to make real the unpleasant consequences of pleasurable excess eating." Sounds like a great idea to me. I just grossed myself out looking at photos of gangrene, clogged arteries, etc. and now I feel (at least temporarily) disgusted by junk food.0 -
Yes, she has limits as a doctor. Absolutely, social policy would help, and she poo poos it too quickly. Having an honest conversation about the causes of obesity within the public sphere would increase acceptance of policies. If this article furthers that, that's a good thing I guess, but there's a level of aggression in there - and yeah, disgust - that verges on cruelty. I get that it's probably because she's fed up, but still. If she really understood the social determinants of health, she couldn't have written that piece.0
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Yes, she has limits as a doctor. Absolutely, social policy would help, and she poo poos it too quickly. Having an honest conversation about the causes of obesity within the public sphere would increase acceptance of policies. If this article furthers that, that's a good thing I guess, but there's a level of aggression in there - and yeah, disgust - that verges on cruelty. I get that it's probably because she's fed up, but still. If she really understood the social determinants of health, she couldn't have written that piece.
Interesting view. I didn't pick up any level of agression and found the honesty of the article quite refreshing. I think what came through for me was the level of frustration and feeling powerlessness with her inability to be able to help these individuals, their inability to help themselves and the society's failure to do anything effective to combat the problem. A Doctor's role in treating obesity-related diseases is such a bandaid solution to what is (in theory only as the article points out) a simple problem, over consumption.0 -
What I got from the article was 'doctors can't fix this. It's up to YOU'.
Which sounds reasonable enough.0 -
Yes, she has limits as a doctor. Absolutely, social policy would help, and she poo poos it too quickly. Having an honest conversation about the causes of obesity within the public sphere would increase acceptance of policies. If this article furthers that, that's a good thing I guess, but there's a level of aggression in there - and yeah, disgust - that verges on cruelty. I get that it's probably because she's fed up, but still. If she really understood the social determinants of health, she couldn't have written that piece.
Sounds like you just read the first couple of paragraphs and maybe the last one.
Read the whole thing.0 -
saving for later.0
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Very thought provoking! I had a discussion with my husband over the key points. It really puts things into perspective and makes you think.What I got from the article was 'doctors can't fix this. It's up to YOU'.
Which sounds reasonable enough.
I took that from the article too.0 -
In to read tonight0
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What a thought provoking article. Thanks for sharing. I tried to go back to work after reading half, but I couldn't stop.0
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Wow thank u! I definitely needed that wake up call!0
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