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Why is no one talking about this?
TOPIC: Why is no one talking about this?
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Why is no one talking about this? 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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Being morbidly obese and dying of heart failure is okay. Being morbidly obese and dying of Covid is a tragedy that requires the suspension of life for everyone.
The reasons for relative UK death rates seems to me sooooo obvious. But we just can't say it can we?
amp.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/11/...tter_impression=true
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Re:Why is no one talking about this? 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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Wyot wrote:
Honey wrote:
Wyot, you know how people die "with" covid when it might have only played a small part?
It is the same with obesity.
Whatever the semantics of these deaths, the health of our nation (and on no construction is obesity anything but unhealthy) has been a big factor in the UK.
For me, again, the politics needs to be taken out of it. You don't protect people by trying to spare their feelings or running in fear of "labelling" people; in fact, you do the opposite.
Give people the facts and let them make their own decisions. Let's stop pretending that size is relative. It has overtaken smoking as the biggest health crisis in the country.
But you cant go from being dangerously obese (covid wise) to not at risk in a short space of time, and panicking people into crash dieting brings far worse problems than being fat.
I absolutely agree that obesity prevention should be given more importance, and there are many issues that need addressing urgently, such as mental health care, the availability and affordability of nourishing food, and the promotion and normalisation of over processed food.
It would be lovely if we were all slim and healthy, but in reality, the middle of a stupid pandemic situation is the worst possible time to badger someone into losing weight.
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