This is gonna hurt someone’s feelings, but doctors don’t call people fat unless they’re overweight. It’s just that, as a society, we are fucking delusional about obesity and lie to ourselves and others constantly, distorting what a healthy weight even looks like.
Sure, but sometimes (a lot of the time, from the experiences of multiple women in my life) doctors use “you’re overweight” as a thought terminating phrase and won’t even begin to look at other possible illnesses or treatments other than “you’re overweight, you need diet and exercise”.
By all means, if obesity is impacting their health it is something that needs to be addressed as well. That doesn’t negate other health issues that happen to be comorbid with obesity, though.
Sometimes obesity is a symptom of something else wrong that doesn’t get diagnosed, it’s a systemic issue sadly.
However I do wish I could shame the overweight people buying enough snacks for a family as their midnight snack. Like honey, this is why you’re big, have you tried just not eating four candy bars a day?
This is gonna hurt someone’s feelings, but doctors don’t call people fat unless they’re overweight. It’s just that, as a society, we are fucking delusional about obesity and lie to ourselves and others constantly, distorting what a healthy weight even looks like.
Sure, but sometimes (a lot of the time, from the experiences of multiple women in my life) doctors use “you’re overweight” as a thought terminating phrase and won’t even begin to look at other possible illnesses or treatments other than “you’re overweight, you need diet and exercise”.
By all means, if obesity is impacting their health it is something that needs to be addressed as well. That doesn’t negate other health issues that happen to be comorbid with obesity, though.
You could’ve stopped after the first word.
Also, “if obesity is impacting their health” is delusional talk. Obesity always impacts health. There is no if.
Sometimes obesity is a symptom of something else wrong that doesn’t get diagnosed, it’s a systemic issue sadly.
However I do wish I could shame the overweight people buying enough snacks for a family as their midnight snack. Like honey, this is why you’re big, have you tried just not eating four candy bars a day?
Obesity is not a systemic issue, it’s a caloric and exercise issue.
I don’t see the point or humanity in shaming fat people, but I also don’t see the point in soothing ego by coddling.