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University of Illinois Chicago wants to ban the word 'obesity' because focusing on body size is 'rooted in racism
Daily Mail ^ | 5/18/22 | Gina Martinez

Posted on 05/18/2022 5:47:43 PM PDT by markomalley

Multiple woke academics now claim the word 'obesity' is racist and should be dropped in favor of 'people with larger bodies.'

The University of Illinois Chicago's school of public health published a health brief titled: 'Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health' that explored 'the association between racism, weight, and health.'

According to Amanda Montgomery RD, public health's focus on preventing obesity has brought in an increase of negative attitudes towards 'people with larger bodies' - her preferred alternative term - and is currently one of the only socially acceptable forms of discrimination.

The brief claims that public health approaches related to obesity can be harmful because of the focus on one outcome - weight loss- and because it tends to ignore the root cause of the issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: didyousearch; fat; fatso; lard; lardbutt; obese; obesity
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"ignore the root cause of the issue"

In the vast majority of cases, the root cause of obesity is eating too much garbage. Coupled with not enough calorie burning.

An example of a healthy breakfast:

And the inverse


1 posted on 05/18/2022 5:47:43 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

“ban the word ‘obesity’”

except, I imagine, when it’s applied to Donald Trump.


2 posted on 05/18/2022 5:50:06 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: markomalley

They have a point. When I think of fat people, I think of Stacey Abrams and Orca Winfrey.


3 posted on 05/18/2022 5:50:19 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: markomalley

Racist? Everything is racist to a racist!

Ban food! Well, they’re not banning yet, just making it a shortage!


4 posted on 05/18/2022 5:50:19 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: markomalley

So, doctors and cardiologists are not “fat phobic”?


5 posted on 05/18/2022 5:50:20 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: markomalley

Better yet no breakfast. You really don’t need it.


6 posted on 05/18/2022 5:50:57 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: markomalley

Funny, I don’t remember reading about many if any fat slaves.

Maybe they were treated better than we are taught.


7 posted on 05/18/2022 5:51:23 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: markomalley

So he’s saying people can be racist towards obese white people by using that term?

Interesting....


8 posted on 05/18/2022 5:51:53 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: coloradan

Whoops, are “now” fat phobic?


9 posted on 05/18/2022 5:52:04 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: rightwingcrazy

None of us, of course, saw a fat person before we saw a black one.


10 posted on 05/18/2022 5:52:11 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: markomalley

Even though I don’t eat too many of them these days, Mc egg McDuffie w/sausage is a slice of heaven. And the only thing I like American cheese or whatever thT is, on it


11 posted on 05/18/2022 5:53:01 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: markomalley

“People who love to eat”

“People who consume mass quantities”

“Competitive Eaters”

“People who obviously don’t suffer from Bulemia”


12 posted on 05/18/2022 5:53:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: markomalley

No. That is childish thinking and it doesn’t even make sense to call it ‘racist’. Be Better!


13 posted on 05/18/2022 5:54:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: markomalley

The egg mcmuffin is a lot better than you think

Meat, good fats, proteins, carbs

Eggs are the one of the best proteins you can have


14 posted on 05/18/2022 5:54:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Publish or Perish. Same old game.


15 posted on 05/18/2022 5:55:13 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Mass enhanced”

“Gravitationally gifted”


16 posted on 05/18/2022 5:58:28 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: TribalPrincess2U

“Everything is racist to a racist?

Yep. Kind of like when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.


17 posted on 05/18/2022 5:58:45 PM PDT by Qui is (First, never apologize to the enemy, and second, never forget that Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: markomalley
I want to ban the phrase, "Institutions of Higher Learning" because they are not learning. They just sit around and think up new ways to blame racism on EVERYTHING. Academia has become a joke.

If I had college age children, I'd tell them I won't spend a dime on college and suggest they don't get student loans. I'd guide them towards trade/occupational schools for a future standard of living. There are many such vocational schools out there now.

18 posted on 05/18/2022 6:00:03 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: markomalley

here is an interesting thought.

Healthy Meal:

A small steak
Baked potato
a salad with tomatoes
a Dinner roll
and some sugared strawberries for desert
and some milk to drink with it

now...

cut the dinner roll in half, grind up the steak and press it into a paddy, then put the salad on top of it between the two halfs of the dinner roll. Then cut the potato into small slices, and blend up the milk and sugared strawberries up into a combined drink...

and PRESTO!!!! like magic! it becomes JUNK FOOD!!!

isn’t that neat?


19 posted on 05/18/2022 6:04:54 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: rightwingcrazy

I always thought it was a polite way to say FAT.

Is ghettopotamous allowed????


20 posted on 05/18/2022 6:05:28 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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