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Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata
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Has anyone read Gina Kolata's new book Rethinking Thin. Here are some excerpts from a NYTimes review.
"Kolata argues that being fat is not something people have much control over. Most people who are overweight struggle to change their shape throughout their lives, but remain stuck within a relatively narrow weight range set by their genes. For those determined to foil biology, strict dieting is a life sentence. 'I am a fat man in a thin man’s body,' an M.I.T. obesity researcher who shed his unwanted pounds years ago tells Kolata.
"He’s one of the lucky and single-minded few. Study after study, Kolata notes, has shown that for most fat people the long-term rewards of dieting are modest at best. Yet as obesity rates have skyrocketed, exhortations to eat right, exercise and shed pounds have gone from loud to shrill. Kolata’s understandable sympathy for those caught between the ever intensifying pressure to be thin and the stubborn size of their bodies, however, leads her to flirt with an unlikely conclusion: Maybe the outcry over obesity is itself supersized, and being fat isn’t really unhealthy after all."
It seems like Kolata has a point but has gone too far. I agree with the reviewer's conclusion that "we should replace the elusive goal of thinness with the goal of better health and greater happiness."
Does this make sense?
Can we be healthy without being thin? If so, how would we know it?
Can we be unhealthy and thin? If so, how would we know it?
Responsibility
Currently, our society is in a sad state of stripping us of our responsibilities and consequences - We are not fat, we are "big boned"; we are not alcoholic, we are ill; nicotine addiction is not our fault it is a disease. To all of that I say "bull".
It seems that someone who is driven by make buck find many ways to project causes of bad health outcomes to something other than the person - like fat genes, fat cells, fat foods, body types. So fat genes will lead to fat genes pills, and fat burner pills elixirs; Some easy solutions.
We all should handle our low fat health the way Type 1 diabetics handle their glucose management (health) - Quickly choose a proper lifestyle or die!
You do the right things like eat nutritiously, exercise, and medicate you live. You don't do these things you die.
Take resposibility for your life seriously.
rethinking thin
I totally agree with the point of view shared here, so we care about being thin, but in the meantime we have low stamina, don't eat well and become unhealthy. It is far more important to focus on better health and greater happiness.
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