I just watched Gabor Mate’s Brain Development & Addiction video again (this video rocks!), as I’m working on a post on food, addiction, and reward to complement what’s going on over at Whole Health Source.
But this time, this quote from the very end of the video really caught my attention:
Only in the presence of compassion, will people allow themselves to see the truth. — A.H. Almaas
In my mind, this holds as true for obesity as it does for drug addiction. Beating people up about their weight just really sucks as a strategy.
Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our modern culture -- especially diet. Beth writes about ancestral health, health policy, & mindfulness. And cats! 
Most obese people, when subjected to abuse just drift off or return the “favor” onto others. Keep up the good works.
My last 2 blog posts were about food addiction, specificly carbohydrate addiction. Keep up the good work!
there’s a whole arm of research on self compassion and weight. It’s so important, I wrote a FT post “secret ingredient for weight loss” you may find interesting. I’m so with you on this.