So the AMA has decided to recognize obesity as a disease — against the recommendations of the committee they asked to look into the subject.
My response? What Aeon mag’s David Berreby said in the conclusion of a piece published earlier this week:
Today’s priests of obesity prevention proclaim with confidence and authority that they have the answer. So did Bruno Bettelheim in the 1950s, when he blamed autism on mothers with cold personalities. So, for that matter, did the clerics of 18th-century Lisbon, who blamed earthquakes on people’s sinful ways. History is not kind to authorities whose mistaken dogmas cause unnecessary suffering and pointless effort, while ignoring the real causes of trouble. And the history of the obesity era has yet to be written.
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How absurd. I wonder if these are the same people who run the Westboro Baptist Church, who believe that solders die because this country condones homosexuality…
Ugh. I’ve been thinking so much about how capitalism is incompatible with our general health and well being. This paragraph really hit home
That Berreby articles was brilliant, and I got the Kindle version because I know I’ll be referring to it often.