• gaja@lemm.ee
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    23 hours 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.

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      5 hours ago

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

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      20 hours 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.

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        19 hours ago

        Obesity is a food issue, our reliance on cars and increasingly sedentary lifestyle may exacerbate the issue but it’s not the cause

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          8 hours 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.

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            23 minutes 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.

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            6 hours ago

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

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

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              6 hours ago

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

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                6 hours ago

                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.