Friday, June 15, 2007
Morality Police
I am fat, and as I have expressed in earlier posts I have spent a lifetime coming to peace with my girth. I was a fat kid, and like a lot of fat kids, I was ridiculed by other children. Today, adults are figuring out new ways to torture fat kids. See Sandy Szwarc's Junkfood Science blog today, in which she reports reader's feedback to recent AMA clinical guidelines for fat kids.
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I suspect a conspiracy of medical care insurance companies. Of course, I have no evidence, but, then, neither did the AMA.
BTW, the courts decided some years ago that obesity did not constitute a disability under the ADA because the obese did it to themselves voluntarily. Once again, we see in our society the collision of natural body types with the fetish of blame.
I believe that this "obesity" epidemic is social prejudice disguised as a medical crisis.
A succinct summary.
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