What is it about?
Obesity is not the public health issue it is made out to be. Like previous health panics like saturated fat, the panic is based on faulty analysis, bad data, and negative attitudes towards heavy people. The focus on obesity does more harm than good and should be abandoned.
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Why is it important?
The primary factors shaping health and illness are living and working conditions. Focus on obesity diverts attention from these issues and stigmatizes a whole class of people. In the end the obesity harms health.
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Governments will do everything to divert attention from their public policies that threaten health. Obesity serves a useful role for them by creating such a diversion.
Dr. Dennis Raphael
York University
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This page is a summary of: Ideology, obesity and the social determinants of health: a critical analysis of the obesity and health relationship, Critical Public Health, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2017.1356910.
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