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Enjoy your life, exercise a bit, don't eat too many processed / sugary foods. Enjoy life - we all die eventually. If only we could make the basic step of gett

• Afton 7y ago
  > If only we could make the basic step of getting the masses to understand why being obese isn't okay I don't think that this is the problem. The problem is that we don't really have a good way of helping people who are obese from being obese (with the exception of mechanical changes like a gastric sleeve). For people who are fat, you can't just explain to them that they shouldn't be fat. The failure rates for this are INSANE. AFAICT, explaining to fat people that they shouldn't be fat is just a feel-good exercise for the speaker. But once you have fat people that you can't help, cognitive dissonance will kick in, and they will normalize it. I mean, the alternative (not normalizing their own physical bodies) is probably also quite harmful. So... Let's figure out an actual good way of helping people not be fat? Blaming fat-acceptance? meh.