On Obesity

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

“When Joy Cox, an academic in New Jersey, was 16, she went to the hospital with stomach pains. The doctor didn’t diagnose her dangerously inflamed bile duct, but he did, out of nowhere, suggest that she’d get better if she stopped eating so much fried chicken. ‘He managed to denigrate my fatness and my blackness in the same sentence,’ she says.”

—-Michael Hobbes

The medical industry (the medical industrial complex) still shames and blames fat people, similarly to the way in which people who use drugs are shamed and blamed.

The whole article is a worthwhile, engaging, informative, and emotional read.