• @gaja@lemm.ee
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    374 days ago

    Look. Shitty doctors exist, but when 1/3 of the US is overweight, there are underlying issues that need addressing. I only hear horror stories when an addict, alcoholic, or overweight individual in my life is feeling insecure or defensive about a prognosis. Too many people deflect and it’s enabling a much larger issues. Our basic instincts are being exploited.

    • @msprout@lemmy.world
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      84 days ago

      America’s obesity epidemic is a function of our car culture. This is the only country on God’s green Earth that feels putting in sidewalks is a moral failure.

        • @Nalivai@lemmy.world
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          24 days ago

          You can’t really know it. I suspect it’s a combination of the two. If you drive everywhere and sit around the rest of the time, you can’t be healthy no matter your diet.

          • Obesity is a product of excess caloric intake NOT sedentary lifestyle.

            Lack of cardiovascular and kinesthetic health is a product of a sedentary lifestyle.

            • @Nalivai@lemmy.world
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              24 days ago

              It is once again, incredibly simplistic view of a very complicated issue, so simplistic it stops being accurate.

              • Unless you’ve magically discovered the source of energy and mass from nothing, and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world … no, it isn’t.

          • @blarghly@lemmy.world
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            13 days ago

            It’s obvious that this is not the most important underlying cause, as other countries which are less auto oriented are also quite fat.

    • @geekgrrl0@lemmy.ca
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      34 days ago

      I have some horror stories about being a normal weight woman seeking medical care. What’s that about then?

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          33 days ago

          I don’t know, the medical community ignoring fat people’s health concerns (beyond obesity) and ignoring women’s health concerns, seem to be the same issue and I posit they are the same cause too (hubris, arrogance, and just simply not living up to their oath)