Get On With It

Got to again pay tribute to Catherine Hughes' "I don't need more research to tell me how dangerous it is. I need to know how to cure it." Not the actual title, but the key and salient point. The one the focus should be on. If it was, they'd be none of the culture of pathologising of the human body its, our, existence. It is at the heart of why, what's dubbed "the obesity debate" isn't a debate at all.

When I saw it, I thought it would be presque le deluge. No chance.

More of a cry in the wilderness.

The face presented by the usual, manufactured consent is probesity versus antibesity. Always missing is this central cause of medical science, seeking cure. All this, and fat people's default- let's get on with it mindframe.

This being a rare example of such unambiguous staging.

Those who've convinced themselves we are "irresponsible" forget you cannot intentionally self-starve without conscious action. It's not a pill you pop into your mouth or an injection that briefly screws up your features whilst delivering a dose of doing the job for you.

Your action and your action alone, is in place of pill or jab. Fighting your body's own self-regulation.

Those of us that started young, were formed not only taking this responsibility, but also expecting to succeed. Not to continually fail whilst claiming to be "in recovery" and other such twaddle is nowhere.

Our "journey" had a distinct beginning, middle and conclusion. We continued in expectation of this.

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Without a pulsating central drive of medical-"We must solve this." You are left with the irrational, non-functioning awkwardness of-"This is a killer, save your life with a proven failure."

A well-recognised endgame in quack-busting circles.

"The highwayman demands 'your money OR your life,' but quacks demand 'your money AND your life!'" ...The harm done by quackery may be categorized as economic, direct, indirect, psychological and societal.

Indeed.

....impact upon individuals and families can be catastrophic if they fall into the trap of heroically "leaving no stone unturned" in their quest for a remedy in hopeless cases. Some quacks are quite willing to bleed them dry financially.

And bleed them.

Dubious therapies can cause death, serious injury, unnecessary suffering, and disfigurement.

Health bullshit is usually a time-sink, in that its failure doesn't lead to it being called off in favour of seeking functioning alternatives. Despite being in use to see off a real or purported, imminent threat to life, "..abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health.

Despite breathtaking adherence to the fake 'obesity' construct, this absolute non-sequitur continues to advance. Pointing to this merely leads to the same response as pages and pages worth of the commentary under the above piece,

Obesity is caused by eating too much an exercising too little. There is no search for answers here...I mean no offence, but statistically if one eats large amounts of high-fat food, one is more likely to gain than lose weight....So what you are really looking for is not the causes of obesity (eating too much, not exercising enough or in some rare cases an underlying medical disorder).What you are really after is a way you can eat what you like, do as little as you like and not become dangerously fat slim [sic]. The failure must succeed. [Etc.,]

The old scientific axiom-if reality doesn't match the hypothesis change the hypothesis is replaced by the opposite. If reality doesn't match the hypothesis, change i.e. deny reality.

You can tell there's no debate as this doesn't stand up to even primitive, let alone basic critical scrutiny. It's insistently repeated nonetheless. A sign that people are not operating with a full deck, a state activated on hearing the term 'obesity', a constant refrain.

We don't need to be told that our obesity can lead to myriad further health problems; we need to know about the causes, not the consequences. With that aim in mind, I gave permission for my daughter's blood to be sent to the research team at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge, where the genetic causes of obesity are being examined.  

Ah, all sorties just end up as themes bandied around to salvage eat less move more.

You'll recognise that 8 year later genes is the meme.