Researcher says fat-shaming could help curb obesity

(Ron Edmonds, Associated Press)
(Ron Edmonds, Associated Press)
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Updated: 1/24 8:58 am
GARRISON, New York -- "Health on Today" reports that senior research scholar and president emeritus of The Hastings Center Daniel Callahan is calling for renewed emphasis on social pressure against heavy people.

While Callahan applauds efforts to boost education, promote public health awareness of obesity and curb marketing of unhealthy foods to children, he believes plans should include a dose of shame if we want to conquer the obesity problem in the U.S.

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Lervia - 1/25/2013 10:20 AM
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@RJ2323: Ditto, and BAVO!!!! I've always hated it when you go to your doctor and he determines that it's "all in your mind"!!! That should be the "tell" that it's time to find a new, more competent, or less arrogant doctor!!! I had one tell me that once, but then I had them pull my medical records to show the diagnosis that he'd previously given me to prove my point, complaint, and his incompetence. Actually, it was incompetence with me on more than one occasion (SMALL town area & doc, long way from better emergency care). But, when I called him on his incompetence with an elderly close friend that a day later cost her a leg due to a blood clot............., well, it was up to her family to fight and prosecute, which wasn't done (blackmail involved). The "doc" kept saying of her complaints that she was just an old woman looking for attention. The day I blocked her hospital room door and would not let him leave her room until he listened to her and checked out her complaint was the day he sent her 90 miles away to a better hospital, and where her leg was amputated due to the blood clot that had caused gangrene and her pain. Moral of the story............doctors aren't all knowing or invincible or always competent. Don't stand there and get over run. YOU know what you feel is going on in your body, and don't let them question you and make you think you're crazy!!!

RJ2323 - 1/25/2013 10:04 AM
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This is the approach that Medicine has taken for decades. What they cannot cure or effectively treat -stigmatize the patient. Arrogant idiot!

trutex - 1/24/2013 6:03 PM
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I think Researcher shaming can help curb ridiculous studies.

Phrilly - 1/24/2013 4:46 PM
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You have got to be kidding! Calling a child "fat" or other names is considered bullying. This researcher obviously doesn't have any kids. I bet the suicide rate would go up if this is done. This "researcher" is an idiot.

camidawg - 1/24/2013 10:49 AM
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Any time you have to call for 'renewed emphasis' on something, it means that most people wised up to the fact that whatever it is doesn't effing work and that a new idea needs to be implemented....otherwise you're peomoting the same shty idea that some bozo the clown came up with in the first place. Govt's do this alot.
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