We have to stop stigmatizing obese people because it’s not choice, it’s genes.
This is definitely an example of genes over choice /sarc:
Flint points to the fact that the proximity of a fast food restaurant is associated with how much we consume those foods. And not surprisingly, advertising also plays a part.
The story cites this CNN story from March.
And this is the example of genes:
The monogenic obesity syndromes are very rare, Meyre noted, so rare they may collectively represent only 0.5% of the obese population in Canada, while individually some of these syndromes represent one in a million births.
So 33,000 Canadians are genetically obese and 6.6M people in Canada are obese but it’s totally not their fault because genetics.
I guess the real question should be if Global thinks we’re as stunned as their “seasoned fashion and beauty journalist”.
However … EVERY Country with Socialized Medicine has no choice but to stigmatize obesity because FAT people COST MORE to care for what with Diabetes, heart disease, hip replacements, and the like. The taxpayers don’t want to pay higher taxes to take care of the FATTIES. Hell no … deny them care … let em all Dieeeeeeee !
On the other hand … AIDS patients need to be given everything they need for quality care and a quality like. It wasn’t “their fault” … like the FATTIES … for contracting AIDS. They contracted AIDS because Reagan and the CIA created it to kill off the gay community … so they deserve the most expensive medical care regardless of the taxes necessary.
You didn’t think these were BOTH “lifestyle” diseases did you ? And guess what Socialized Medincine recipients … ? The GOVERNMENT will decide which is which.
I seriously can’t stand being around gays, and without a doubt I was born that way. The proof that its in the genetics is evolutionary science, and all religious doctrine if you choose to go that route.
Progressive Liberals have no evidence contrary to my genetic predisposition to disliking non-heterosexuals!
Ah, the good old-fashioned “it’s not me, it’s my genes”…. It’s simply an excuse to evade personal responsibility, a “get out of jail free” card, a way of justifying one’s lack of self-discipline.
Where’s the proof? Remember what Carl Sagan said: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
I’m sure I have mentioned this before but at the expense of being redundant I shall repeat myself. I had a fat friend back in about 1970 and one day my father criticized him to me. I tried to defend him but my dad had one line you couldn’t dispute. “There were no fat guys in the prison camp”.
Not just the prison camps. Look at worker in the 40s espe4cially the miners. All meat and bone
So, yeah, there are genetic differences. Some people can eat, drink, what ever they please and don’t gain weight.
But, about the same percentage of people who don’t gain weight, still get fatty liver disease, type II diabetes, CVD and so on. Our food supply sucks. Plain and simple.
Think about it, in all of human history, humans have only been eating “vegetable oils” for 100 years, and we are getting sick, ha, makes sense, no? (vegetable oils -> seed oils, such as cotton seed and rape (canola))
And then there is sugar, again, mass consumption of sugar has only been for 100-120 years, and now we are sick. Go figure.
Is there, pray tell, a “lecher” gene,that makes old men ogle pretty young women at the beach,or pretty young men in the gay bar if you’re of that persuasion?
There MUST be.
“Progressive Liberals have no evidence contrary to my genetic predisposition to disliking non-heterosexuals!”
On the contrary Paul. Evidence shows that disgust of homosexuals is a natural reaction
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/07/11/study-finds-heterosexual-men-find-gay-men-as-repulsive-as-rotting-flesh/
A scientific study has found that heterosexual men find gay men as repulsive as rotting flesh and maggots.
The study, which was carried out by the American Institute of Bisexuality, found that even those who say they are accepting of the LGBT community have a physical reaction upon seeing two men showing affection for each other.
Look at the workers in the 1940s? There were certainly some then who were fat. To what degree that was genetic versus choice is past determining, but I’m sure in the 1940s fat workers very likely did work hard and get their jobs done, they just had to work harder to do it carrying extra weight.
“Flint points to the fact that the proximity of a fast food restaurant is associated with how much we consume those foods. And not surprisingly, advertising also plays a part.”
And that advertising is in the form of all that McLitter in the neighbourhoods that are in the proximity of the fast food restaurants.
These restaurants should be held accountable for all of that garbage that has their Brand names on it.
Make no mistake, it is a form of advertising. They know it, and the government knows it too.
I did not know that overeating was genetic.
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Nuff Said.
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The typical platidudinous throw away lines:
“The answer, they say, is to reframe the conversation, starting with the fact that obesity is not a choice, it’s a chronic disease that needs to be addressed and treated in the same way we do heart disease or diabetes. And it’s a complex issue that goes well beyond food and exercise.”
Okay, “needs to be addressed and treated” how exactly — by changes in individual behaviour for instance i.e. choices? “goes well beyond food and exercise” — to what exactly? ” . . . obesity is not a choice . . ” rubbish! It’s very much a choice, simply one who’s consequences people don’t happen to like!