Article: Should Obesity Be Stigmatized?

southpaw23 said:
There was an overweight 16 year old kid who'd come into my gym. He would workout in the corner and I'd hear people make snide remarks about him, mind you he was doing something. The act of getting up and walking into a gym when you're obese is a sign of strength. Rather than makeing fun of the kid, which would have led him to go home and feel worse about himself, feel stressed and succumb to triggers, end up making poor choices, I worked out with him. I dragged him to play sports and put him on my team, against the wishes of everyone else on the team. Lol. At the end of 3 months he dropped a substantial amount of weight, had more self confidence and gained a new friend. He's a good kid, who deserved help not someone's pity or shame.
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That kid got the education, support and more than likely negative motivation to make the changes I discussed in the post you quoted. Good for him. Now if he can do it...
 
southpaw23 said:
And that's great. I find inherent pleasure in reading, going to museums and traveling. Lifting things up and putting them down just happens to fall in there somewhere. It's not like we're curing cancer over here, you know what I mean. Perspective.
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As do I. Perspective, however, is broad regarding health. Nobody finds pleasure in being unhealthy. And obesity is potentially more dangerous than cancer. Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans, with cancer in second place.

Maybe we should be creating at least the same level of awareness for the dangers of obesity. We hear all about carcinogens and various habits to avoid in order to avoid cancer. Lets bring on the fat ass habits to avoid heart attacks too. It would be a public service if nothing else.

We aren't talking about striated shoulders and glass cutting abs here, but general health. "Perspective" is a weak argument against health.

Edit: Obesity is even believed to lead to certain types of cancer, as fat cells retain various carcinogens ingested from our environment and, oddly, ****ty foods. It's very deadly and certainly deserves aggressive attention.
 
southpaw23 said:
Lol. I only lose on a "fitness" forum...infer away.
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lol you might actually be a bigger smart ass than i am...thats hard to do

TexasGuy said:
That kid got the education, support and more than likely negative motivation to make the changes I discussed in the post you quoted. Good for him. Now if he can do it...
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good point with "now if he can do it"
the "pass it on" trait really is an important factor in all of this. its important to be able to relate to others when your seeking or giving advice.
 
TexasGuy said:
And obesity is potentially more dangerous than cancer. Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans, with cancer in second place.
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i though it was accidents....im pretty sure that it is accidents actually...
 
MANotaur said:
i though it was accidents....im pretty sure that it is accidents actually...
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States; one in every three deaths is from heart disease and stroke, equal to 2,200 deaths per day.

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Perhaps accidents for children.
 
TexasGuy said:
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States; one in every three deaths is from heart disease and stroke, equal to 2,200 deaths per day.

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Perhaps accidents for children.
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your right...just checked my references...overall your right, i was thinking demographic, leading cause of death in men between the ages of 18 and 45 is accidents
 
Just total deaths. And that doesn't even account for all the fat kids today that will follow their fat parents, and earlier. I'm betting we see a wider margin of obesity related deaths in the next decade or two to come. But hey, 66% of the total population can't be wrong, and we certainly shouldn't tell them they are too fat.
 
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just did it for you!

and heaven forbid we not tell them
 
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this one is a little more appropriate for the conversation at hand
 
as long as the public stigmatizes gear, ill be returning the favor to all the fat phuks out there. once they attempt to change themselves, theyre off my radar
 
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