[ Disclosure: As Brit I have no idea how the US treats these issues, I'm only going on how the UK does ] > Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women the

[ Disclosure: As Brit I have no idea how the US treats these issues, I'm only going on how the UK does ] > Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese. The UK already tackles these issues by banning a great deal, if not all food adverts on TV channels at times that children will typically watch, it's very easy to say that we should be focusing more effort on some subject but actually in fact we are focusing on the problem of obesity the one of the things we haven't really focused a huge amount of effort on is anorexia which still kills people ( and even more tragically, typically young people ) > Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year I actually went through and read the paper that you sourced that quote from and I think the author actually misses a big issue source of possible fatalities, primary it's not focusing on the suicide numbers. Instead it goes to focus on the death certificate counts for anorexia, there's probably doesn't mean that it's going to have a very good representation in the same way that you can't directly blame a lot of deaths on obesity directly because it causes other long-term issues