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| Thread ID: 125649 | 2012-07-10 21:59:00 | 'Fat hatred' should be banned | Iantech (16386) | PC World Chat |
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| 1287535 | 2012-07-10 21:59:00 | . stuff . co . nz/dominion-post/news/7256463/Fat-hatred-should-be-banned-scholar" target="_blank">www . stuff . co . nz "Fat hatred" should be banned like racism or sexism, says a pro-fat scholar who argues that obesity isn't a health problem . Massey University lecturer Cat Pause says "the war against fat" and "fat phobia" were much more damaging than carrying a few extra kilos or, in her case, a lot . "Obesity is not a big health problem . If you really look at the science, that is what comes through . " Her claims fly in the face of an obesity epidemic taking hold of the Western World . Governments are fighting health budget blowouts, hospitals are buying bigger beds and equipment, and airlines are charging travellers for their overflowing flab . In New Zealand – the world's third-fattest nation – more than a quarter of the population are classed as obese . But Dr Pause, who has a PhD in human development, says it is "fattism" that should be feared, not expanding waistlines . She called on New Zealand to be the first country to outlaw discrimination against fat people, which has been described as the "last socially acceptable form of prejudice" . Fat people were having to live in a culture that openly hated them, she said . "We always hear about the war on obesity, and any time a politician or someone studying public health policy talks about solving the obesity epidemic . . . they're talking about a programme of social eugenics to get rid of me . " The relationship between weight and health was much more complicated than people thought, and none of the "obesity myths" were backed by science, Dr Pause said . Is 'science' needed to tell you that being obese is unhealthy? I would have thought it was quite clear with the growing amount of health issues resulting from being grossly over-weight . I think this so called Doctor is on a different planet, but then again so were her parents to name the kid "Cat Pause"!! |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1287536 | 2012-07-11 00:25:00 | Fat is fat, I don't like fat people. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1287537 | 2012-07-11 00:37:00 | Being a skinny is much more unhealthy than being fat – new study By Lewis Page • 10th July 2012 08:00 GMT Yet another study has shown that the so-called "obesity" epidemic sweeping the wealthy nations of the world has been massively over-hyped, as new results show that is is far more dangerous to be assessed as "underweight" than it is to be assessed even as "severely obese" - let alone merely "obese" or "overweight" . "There is currently a widespread belief that any degree of overweight or obesity increases the risk of death, however our findings suggest this may not be the case," says health prof Anthony Jerant, lead author of the study . "In the six-year timeframe of our evaluation, we found that only severe obesity was associated with an increased risk of death . " Most statistics in this field are still based on the now widely discredited Body Mass Index (BMI) system, under which people are assessed as "underweight", "normal", "overweight", "obese" or "severely obese" . BMI, devised in the early 19th century by an obscure Belgian sociologist without medical qualifications, copes poorly with increases in height as it assumes the human body will scale up in mass in proportion to the square of height – which doesn't allow for the fact that bodies are three dimensional – and further fails to allow for the greater cross-sectional area needed in supporting structures to carry increasing weights . Jerant and his colleagues, surveying nearly 51,000 Americans of all ages over a period of six years, found that "underweight" BMI was far and away the most dangerous category to be placed in . During the study period, the "underweight" subjects showed a risk of death no less than twice as high as the "normal" participants . It was considerably safer to be "severely obese": the people in this category were just 1 . 26 times as likely to die as "normals" . This was because more of them suffered from hypertension and diabetes, and once people without these two conditions were subtracted, the many non-diabetic, non-hypertense "severely obese" fatties were no more likely to die than "normal" people . People who were merely "obese" or "overweight" didn't suffer from diabetes or hypertension any more than "normal" people, and ran no increased risks . "We hope our findings will trigger studies that re-examine the relationship of being overweight or obese with long-term mortality," comments Jerant . The study is published by the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine . ® |
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| 1287538 | 2012-07-11 00:44:00 | Going to extremes either way is bad, normal weight is good. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1287539 | 2012-07-11 01:13:00 | And what do you classify as normal weight ? :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1287540 | 2012-07-11 01:13:00 | I'm rather fat, have been since primary school, at 52 still healthy :p Go for a walk each day, gardening, don't eat to excess, never have (drink beer though). Just some of us are built that way. Hating fat people? Why? Encourage them towards healthy eating and exercise. Positives are more effective than abuse, it will merely drive them to MacDonalds (a place I for one have NEVER been in) If you must hate anything or one then perhaps the American fast so called food industry is somewhere to look. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1287541 | 2012-07-11 01:13:00 | How is racism and sexism banned as this person says? | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1287542 | 2012-07-11 01:14:00 | And what do you classify as normal weight ? :) "The weight that I am now" :D |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1287543 | 2012-07-11 01:24:00 | Don't want to offend any one but being fat is their fault. Why should we have to make new equipment for fat people, how about the fatty's loose weight. Also Being fat doesn't look very good. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1287544 | 2012-07-11 01:40:00 | I agree, it's slightly more genetics than just "how much you eat". I eat about double what a normal person does, and eat constantly throughout the day, I'm about 1.76m (roughly) yet barely register 62KG's on a "good" day... Insanely fast metabolism. I'm sure it swings the other way too. That said, there are things you can do to maintain a "healthy" weight, but if you're a little larger and still healthy, that's your choice I s'pose? |
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