Quinlan
Intriguing....
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Doctors will often tell their fat patients to eat less but is this ethical? Given recent evidence that dieting cannabilizes your brain cells, has a terrible success rate, is linked to weight GAIN in the long term and will likely cause shame and avoidance of medical help if they don't lose the weight.
Dieting
Likely outcomes of a doctor recommending dieting:
-Weight gain over the long term
-Obsessive behaviours/possible eating disorders triggered
-Lower self esteem (due to high failure rate)
-Shame/guilt
-Cannabilisation of brain cells
-Avoidance of doctors leading to undiagnosed serious conditions becoming worse
-Stress leading to further health problems
Unlikely outcomes:
-Long term weight loss
Would we allow any other medical treatment that fails so often, actually makes the condition it's supposed to cure worse and results in your brain eating itself to be recommended so often and so casually?
Shouldn't we be telling people specifically NOT to treat their own obesity so that they don't make things worse?
Maybe instead of telling people to fight their body and their instincts we should tell them to love their bodies as they are.
Dieting
Likely outcomes of a doctor recommending dieting:
-Weight gain over the long term
-Obsessive behaviours/possible eating disorders triggered
-Lower self esteem (due to high failure rate)
-Shame/guilt
-Cannabilisation of brain cells
-Avoidance of doctors leading to undiagnosed serious conditions becoming worse
-Stress leading to further health problems
Unlikely outcomes:
-Long term weight loss
Would we allow any other medical treatment that fails so often, actually makes the condition it's supposed to cure worse and results in your brain eating itself to be recommended so often and so casually?
Shouldn't we be telling people specifically NOT to treat their own obesity so that they don't make things worse?
Maybe instead of telling people to fight their body and their instincts we should tell them to love their bodies as they are.