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Obesity, like Brexit, is a multiplier for the negative outcomes of complicating factors.
by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Obesity, like Brexit, is a multiplier for the negative outcomes of complicating factors.
- kingkawn 2y agosaying that we should only think of it when someone’s trying to talk about women’s health is misogyny
- ecjhdnc2025 2y agoI do not remotely disagree, though I don't think people are saying we should "only think" of it then. But a proper healthcare system should absolutely be discussing obesity with women who intend to get pregnant at least, just as it should be discussing it with people who want to have surgery requiring general anaesthesia, with people who have mobility issues or knee/hip problems, etc.; if not more generally even outside of the context of immediate interventions. Because it makes difficult, traumatic and bad health situations worse. Giving birth is routinely the first two of those things. There is a positive-discrimination aspect here, though: yes, obesity complicates the health of older people, is raising mortality rates across the board. But society doesn't want women to die in childbirth anymore, and that makes this targeted intervention re: obesity a proper thing to do.