Riz Khan - Stigma of obesity - 07 April 08 - Part 2

[cicatrizx]

I think a healthy self-esteem is the most important. if they want to be obese and are proud of it, then it's their right to do so. It's not exactly my problem if OTHER PEOPLE get cardiac arrest at 42. I'm more concerned about parental negligence than anything else.

[Aprinsa]

In other countries, people are probably more willing to get out because everyone gets out in countries where they are required to walk everywhere. In the U.S. everyone regardless of weight will refuse to walk anywhere unless they live in the city.

[ianiansamples]

You can't buy willpower, there's nothing quick and easy about it.

[AirlockMinibus]

'obese people are portrayed eating junk food' well durr thats all they ever do, if they didn't they wouldn't be that fat. OBESEITY IS A NEGATIVE THING. WE SHOULD NOT ACCEPT THESE PEOPLE.

[t1ngley]

Ignorance and bigotry are negative traits, so following your logic, society shouldn't accept you either.

[agetlostgirl]

i am a vegetarian and do not sit around and eat junk food all day and i exercise like hell and im considered obese because of my BMI so what exactly should i do if you so smart

[Squall605]

food is a substance, alcohol is a substance, tobacco is a substance,... why do we accept cigarettes as an addiction, why do we accept alcoholism as an addiction & mental health issue, yet sugar, salts, and other food products are ignored & blame is shifted to the person? im convinced that alcoholism is a byproduct of deeper issues therefore i can not ignore the possibility that obesity is a by product as well.

[matthewsolis247]

No shit they are portrayed in a negative manner, because obesity IS negative! The last thing this country needs is everyone saying " hey it's ok to be obese, in fact we will accommodate you with larger everything including larger wheelchairs and hospital beds when your lack of self respect and discipline puts you in the doctors office!"

[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[wander099]

But the thing is: The more we accept obesity, the more obesity will increase.

I've observed that for some people, being overweight and showing it is a perverse action of pride, just as some people who are underweight are proud of that.

Perhaps we should not strive to be thin, but rather 'fit' and 'fit' for every person does not mean 100 pounds and no fat or muscle. It makes more sense in every way. We would all be so much healthier.

[Restlys01]

she replied that if we start accepting fat people, they will instead lose more weight than now...with all the stigmas attached to it.

between you and the scientist, im going with science.

[wander099]

I'm not saying we should shame these people. We should teach them and motivate them. The people I am refering to are people who say: "I'm fat and I don't care" or "I'm fat and I'm proud of it."

The fact is, you shouldn't be proud of being unhealthy and yet some people are. This attitude is what we should not accept.

[RomanticVampire2009]

That only goes so far because there are other medical conditions and medicines for mental health that make people obese and that is something they cannot change with just diet and excercise. Secondly Fat doesn't necessarily mean unhealthy. BMI doesn't take into consderation muscle mass and bone mass. Someone could be big boned and be ripped and still show up as obese.

[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[smurfp4444]

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[neotoy]

survival of the fittest. it's not discrimination it's evolution. as liberal as society has become, ultimately it's only so flexible, in many countries obesity is not even an option.

[jammoexii]

Survival of the fittest? What does that even mean? You only need to survive long enough to raise your kids to reproductive age. It sucks to die from a stroke when you're 50, but evolution doesn't care.

[neotoy]

Evolution is a long term process, what you're talking about is short term. You are right that evolution doesn't care though.

[Lamia7609]

lol survival of the fittest. Our lifestyles are such that you don't need to be fit to survive. I go from my house to my car to my job to my car to my house. I only need to be fit if I am trying to win an Olympic medal. Studies have come out now showing that obese people aren't anymore likely to die at a young age than anyone else. Also, obese heart patients and patients with kidney disease have the lowest mortality rate. Society doesn't care about the health of fat people. They just hate fat.

[neotoy]

I think what you are not realizing is that through the kind of lifestyle that you mention our civilization as a whole is failing to survive in a larger global picture. If you look at evolution through history, it is not uncommon for an entire species or segment on a sub-continent to face extinction.

[Lamia7609]

oh I have no doubt we're facing extinction, but it's not because of obesity. It's because people are ignorant, violent and corrupt. Plus, the medical community using the BMI to measure if someone is obese and I don't consider people 30 40 lbs overweight obese. The BMI is lame and has been misused for years. The point of the video though is people feeling it's ok to make fun of fat people and treat them poorly because they think it's fair and funny. It's not. It's bullshit.

[TheHindsightTimes]

Families are the worst. I know from experience. My brother and I would always degrade our sister when we were young and this was a form a stigmatising as is being short in a society that looks at the tall man as the "natural" leader or being one of the "beautiful" people leads to being treated different, better.