That film is also absolute garbage because of how he goes about his "Fast Food" diet. So I'll eat fast food except I won't drink sodas (excess calories, sugar, etc,) won't eat french fries (empty carb and oil calories) will eat a caloric deficit (less than 2,000 calories a day) and will exercise 6 days a week. I lost weight!? (gee you think?)Amarok said:At the very least can it be agreed that making sure everyone has access to the foods they want, and access to safe movement options is a better way forward than nurturing a culture of fear, stigma and shame?RafaelNegrus said:Snip
As for your other ponderings, I'd suggest looking at Tom Naughton, and his film Fathead. It comes from a far more cool, clinical perspective, but also debunks the totally erroneous "obese=automatically unhealthy" idea. He's got some ideas on what causes fat, but make sure to bear in mind that fat isn't automatically ill health, and that stigmatising and shaming -- and linking to comprehensive lists of fat jokes as an academic counter-argument -- is just an all-round stupid idea.
His doctors even explain in the film that if people ate a more appropriate low glycemic index diet (full of vegetables, fruits, nuts, meat, and whole grains) as opposed to they way they do eat (garbage) they would probably end up the same as Naughton and lose weight. Crazy I know.
It does nothing to debunk the idea that obese = unhealthy because Naughton was only JUST tipping in at Obese on the BMI and studies have shown that people who are slightly overweight live longer than those who are either morbidly obese or excessively skinny.
This one documentary does not undo the fact that being mobidly obese is linked to Diabetes, Cancers, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Sleep Apnea, Gout, Gall Bladder Disease, etc, etc, etc.