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The changes I can’t understand most involve calling people fat. Obesity is a fact and it should not be normalized. Any obese person put on a desert island and fed water and a limited caloric diet would lose weight, a scientific fact. Any attempt at normalizing obesity is the same as normalizing smoking cigarettes or alcoholism - harmful to all of humanity.

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You'll be surprised by the rhetoric going on in the "Fat Studies" department in academia. Medical prognosis of obesity is just another "narrative" to "oppress" people who are obese. Just imagine if more of such rhetoric goes mainstream.

Perhaps the share of fat consumers who do not want to hear that they are fat has reached the level at which the private sector starts being sycophantic to them.

It is, IMHO, very visible in lingerie marketing.

I think this is put rather bluntly, and I've still got a bit to go probably to where I would call myself my ideal weight, so I say this with a certain empathy... but I really agree that obesity falls into a different category than most of what might be called "woke".

What I perceive as a general normalization of obesity feels... very corporate, or certainly too convenient for corporate interests. Americans fail to consider many aspects of their lives regarding their health because they're trained to trust brands, and that doubly/triply extends to ignorance around diet and nutrition.

Food, sex, alcohol. All vices that Americans glorify and demonize in nearly exactly the least effective ways.

IDK, I don't want to preach but my body now, compared to with an extra 80-100lbs on it? It's hard to put into words how many aspects of my life are markedly better.

About 40% of Cocacola's income is from Foodstamps. https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-coca-cola-company-makes-m...

... according to one person on Twitter.

As of 2016 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to sweetened beverages.[0] There's ~42 million people getting SNAP benefits. [1]

[0a]https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPFo... [0b]https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/foods-typically-purchased-supp... [1]https://hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/explore-our-work/... [2]https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-closer-look-...

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