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by pathseeker
1741 days ago
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>Main reason being this: Most schools teach basic nutrition, i.e that eating less/more food than you need, can/will result in losing/gaining weight. In this day and age, it is common knowledge that eating junk and being sedentary will cause obesity. And even if there are groups of people that don't know this, obesity has hit all socioeconomic classes - not only poor people. They do teach what can lead to weight gain, but they've stopped putting emphasis on how unhealthy it was. In the 80-90s when I was in high-school we had our BMI measured in front of the rest of class. If you came in overweight the teach just stated matter-of-fact that you were overweight and that it could lead to health problems. That is absolutely unheard of today. Parents now complain if their child's doctor mentions that the child is overweight because of "body shaming". The reason obesity is a problem today is because convincing people to lose weight somehow became an attack on their identity. |
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I left highschool in the mid-2000s, I was told that I had high blood pressure for my age and to watch out for it. I had friends given advice to lose weight. I was given that same advice by doctors when I was gaining weight after having left school in the mid-2010's.
A young relative who was overweight was given advice to lose weight by his doctor, his parents agreed and made some changes to his diet with his cooperation.
Obesity correlates with a whole slew of different environmental, social and cultural variables, to reduce all of that complexity down to "we can't shame people into losing weight anymore" is absurd.
Even worse, it's not even the first time I've come across this take, so I actually have a link to share with you. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236245/
Read at your leisure, it's not that long.