GollumLemmy when someone posts memes about obese people
KBTR1066Congratulations for latching on to one of the last acceptable groups to be bigoted against. You should feel good about yourself.
SmoothIsFastPeople are shamed for smoking as they should be for its health effects on them and others. Obesity should be treated no differently. You don’t get to 400lb because of a bad thyroid, you get to 400lbs because you are addicted to food and over consumption. It puts undue strain on our medical facilities, and impacts the obese indivuals ability to be a functioning member of society. There should be conversations about why it’s bad. We shouldn’t treat it like some innocent personal choice when it is not, it’s shortening lifespans, the bad diet exacerbates mental health issues, can lead to diseases like type 2 diabetes. The problem is we don’t also target the food industry as much as we should for them pushing all the sugar coated processed garbage in the first place. They should be equally as ostracized as tobacco companies are for their aid in a similar epidemic.
How do you factor in the overabundance of cheap, nutritionally fucked food, and how that may affect those living paycheck to paycheck? It feels odd to recognize it’s a problem, but then also claim obesity is an absolute failing that should be universally shamed.
Side note, as a nurse I’ve seen patients who are obese because of circumstances and medical issues. Someone who has to work two jobs, has a kid, and newly discovered hypothyroidism is not obese because they don’t care. They have a medical issue and no extra time/resources to compensate for it with a refined diet and exercise (especially considering one of the most common symptoms of hypothyroidism is fatigue). You’re not even factoring in the undiagnosed, or those who don’t have access to sufficient healthcare.
My overall point is if you’re targeting obese people specifically, you’re not on the right track.
I maintain my lean figure by consuming 1000 calories of Soylent for the morning/lunch time and and pigging out for dinner. There is cheap nutritionally good food, but junk food addicts don’t care to seek it out.
i don’t know why anyone would downvote 1000kcal soylent per day. it’s literally 50% of all your essential nutrients. im trying to get closer to the 1800 mark myself. fill in the rest of the calories with strong whiskey or cheap beer.
edit: oh. you accused obese people of being junkfood addicts. i see. that’s gross, yo. don’t do that.
I mean isn’t that what a food addiction is? We’re discussing obese people who aren’t obese from a physical medical condition. So tell me how that’s gross, I’m accepting to being wrong I just don’t understand.
all addiction is a social problem. stigma is a big part of it, so body-shaming someone and blaming them for their addiction or the consequences of it is one part of what i think is gross. there is also a presumption that anyone who is obese is a junkfood addict in your stament, and that’s the other part i think is gross. i imagine those aspects are what others thought of when they downvoted you.