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What is your opinion on the anti-diet movement?

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  • LaBellaHarris
    LaBellaHarris Posts: 63 Member
    edited April 2022
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    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    Sounds like something that if enough people post it on social media it gets to be true instead of looking at the science that obesity seriously impacts health.

    There's also science supporting the idea that doctors overlook serious medical conditions because a person is overweight. Here's one article,
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201160/
    But it's been a widely studied and publicized phenomenon at least since my college psychology courses when I was actively paying attention to stats and research (circa 2007-2011), so it's probably not fair to just roll your eyes and blame kids on social media these days. Not catching an unrelated medical issue early enough for treatment because the doctor didn't think it necessary to do any testing on a fat person (or because the equipment doesn't fit a fat person or is inconvenient on a fat person), is a very real, very documented problem in Western healthcare. Sometimes you need to treat the cancer before you lose weight, you know? Because sure, being obese will shorten your life span, but the cancer is what's killing you today. It's about triage.

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