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"Health justice" is becoming a new woke agenda item in universities across the country, as progressive academics try to eliminate "fatphobia," or the cultural stigmatization of obesity, including scrapping the word "obesity" itself.

The University of Illinois Chicago's school of public health defines weight stigma as "the discrimination or stereotyping based on a person's weight," which it claims is "reported at rates comparable to racism and is one of the last types of discrimination still condoned and carried out by public health and medical experts."

"The incidence of weight stigma has increased by 66 percent with the rise of public health campaigns to end the 'obesity epidemic,'" the school says.

The school released a policy brief in October called, "Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health," which said the country's focus on body size is "rooted in racism" dating back to Charles Darwin, and it advised against using "extremely stigmatizing" words like "obesity" in favor of terms such as "people in larger bodies."

"Though lifestyle factors such as nutrition and exercise are important, it is essential to note the historical racism and injustices within our current food environment," the brief said. "As presented by Soul Fire Farm, the U.S. food system is built on stolen land using stolen labor from Black and Latinx indigenous people. Not only has this created a large scale food apartheid and trauma for people indigenous to this land, it has caused a disconnection of indigenous people from their cultural practices and identities."

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What do they expect to gain by this?

Well, they found another way to divide Americans.

"Flamin' Hot" isn't a food group San Antonio.

IIIHorn said:

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What do they expect to gain by this?

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Government grant dollars mostly, but more woke parents willing to shell out $80+K/year would be a plus, too.

"Black women in the United States are disproportionately affected by obesity, with almost two-thirds considered obese based on body mass index."

Think about the target audience...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804270/

Hogging

It's as if they learned NOTHING from covid deaths....if that doesn't "scare" them into better health, I have very little sympathy. Mix in a salad!

The root of the problem is that it takes hard work and discipline staying fit and thin. Getting and staying fat doesn't take much effort.....

I believe in health justice too. People suffer the biological consequences of their own health choices. And unfortunately for leftists, this is not something that can be cheated or propagandized. If you make poor health choices, you will suffer consequences, period.

It's funny looking at the big picture of everything that the left pushes in America. If all men in this country were to completely buy in, we would all be fat, gay, feminized ******* who abort our children and are scared of standing up and defending ourselves. Gee, it's almost like some other nation or outside actor with an interest in weakening our population is manufacturing all of this.

"I need to justify the grant to my department for my graduate degree."

Rapier108 said:

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"Though lifestyle factors such as nutrition and exercise are important, it is essential to note the historical racism and injustices within our current food environment," the brief said. "As presented by Soul Fire Farm, the U.S. food system is built on stolen land using stolen labor from Black and Latinx indigenous people. Not only has this created a large scale food apartheid and trauma for people indigenous to this land, it has caused a disconnection of indigenous people from their cultural practices and identities."

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How TF do you even respond to this? WTF is food apartheid?

I gotta stop reading this board. The bazillions of examples of insanity are raising my blood pressure.

If your blood type is one if the following, you need to sit this one out and go run some laps until the fat wears off.

Arby's
Blimpie
Awesome Burger
Oreo

IIIHorn said:

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What do they expect to gain by this?

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They will pay a heavy price for doing this.

The liberal victimhood grifters are at it again.

Oh by the way, covid death rates were higher in folks that were obese. Remember the outcry about health disparities with no personal accountability.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

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"Obesity Worsens Outcomes from COVID-19
Adults with excess weight are at even greater risk during the COVID-19 pandemic:

Having obesity increases the risk of severe illness from COVID-19. People who are overweight may also be at increased risk.

Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection.

Obesity is linked to impaired immune function.

Obesity decreases lung capacity and reserve and can make ventilation more difficult.

A study of COVID-19 cases suggests that risks of hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, invasive mechanical ventilation, and death are higher with increasing BMI.

The increased risk for hospitalization or death was particularly pronounced in those under age 65.

More than 900,000 adult COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in the United States between the beginning of the pandemic and November 18, 2020. Models estimate that 271,800 (30.2%) of these hospitalizations were attributed to obesity.

Children diagnosed with obesity may suffer worse outcomes from COVID-19. In a study of COVID-19 cases in patients aged 18 years and younger, having obesity was associated with a 3.07 times higher risk of hospitalization and a 1.42 times higher risk of severe illness (intensive care unit admission, invasive mechanical"


The liberals and their hypocrisy are spinning again trying to normalize being overweight. They are chasing so many victims to save, their victims create conflicting messages. Overweight is good, health care disparities cause excessive deaths on and on. If they would stay with a consistent message - personal responsibility and do your best to take care of yourself, the country would be in a better place.

Didn't liberals want to cure obesity a few years back? Now they want to fatten them up?

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"Health justice" is becoming a new woke agenda item in universities across the country, as progressive academics try to eliminate "fatphobia," or the cultural stigmatization of obesity, including scrapping the word "obesity" itself.

The University of Illinois Chicago's school of public health defines weight stigma as "the discrimination or stereotyping based on a person's weight," which it claims is "reported at rates comparable to racism and is one of the last types of discrimination still condoned and carried out by public health and medical experts."

"The incidence of weight stigma has increased by 66 percent with the rise of public health campaigns to end the 'obesity epidemic,'" the school says.

The school released a policy brief in October called, "Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health," which said the country's focus on body size is "rooted in racism" dating back to Charles Darwin, and it advised against using "extremely stigmatizing" words like "obesity" in favor of terms such as "people in larger bodies."

"Though lifestyle factors such as nutrition and exercise are important, it is essential to note the historical racism and injustices within our current food environment," the brief said. "As presented by Soul Fire Farm, the U.S. food system is built on stolen land using stolen labor from Black and Latinx indigenous people. Not only has this created a large scale food apartheid and trauma for people indigenous to this land, it has caused a disconnection of indigenous people from their cultural practices and identities."

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So this is prevalent at most universities or at least a large segment across the country? Or just Chicago?

aTmAg said:

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It's not that I'm afraid of fat people. It's that they disgust me.

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It's a good thing no one here has an overweight wife or daughter.

BigRobSA said:

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I'm fat.


This is dumb as hell. We need more shaming, and bullying, not less. We're raising a generation of poosays.


My son: "Dad, some boy at school called me a name."

Me: "You'll be alright. Did you punch him in his stupid face?"

Son: "No, my teacher said for him to stop it. He didn't. Then the teacher took away some points...."

Me: "You catch that little mofo slippin', and you plant his ass with a right cross. He'll think twice before messing with you again"

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Lol, i love it

lol that last paragraph. They absolutely overloaded their plate with all of the words from the woke salad bar

It's just a mask, We're All in This Together.

It's just eating a little less, We're All in This Together.

BluHorseShu said:

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aTmAg said:

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It's not that I'm afraid of fat people. It's that they disgust me.

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It's a good thing no one here has an overweight wife or daughter.

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So what if they do? It's not like they don't know they are fat and need to get healthy.