Larger Than Life: The Root Causes Of Obesity

Clark Kent/Superman article.

This article is the exception to the rule that Clark and Superman cannot be in the same place at the same time.

It is 100% correct and 100% wrong simultaneously.

"Like Bridget, Sara Kirk hails from the United Kingdom and could be described as being fascinated with weight management. If they ever had the chance to meet over coffee (or given Bridget's lifestyle, a martini) Sara would have some comforting advice: 'It's not all your fault, Bridget.'...

'For many years, we've looked at weight as an individual problem. It's a personal responsibility willpower, call it what you will. The general consensus still is that it is an individual problem, one that should not be medicalized,' says Dr. Kirk. "Actually, there's a huge body of literature that's coming out now that says we need to look at the culture and the environment."

How ignorant is she?

"The general consensus still is that it is an individual problem, one that should not be medicalized"?

Obviously it it being medicalized as sick care systems around the world are whining about how they are going under trying to take care of fat people.

In fact, the only way to deal with the problems created by fat people is by NOT medicalizing the matter.

If only it were not medicalized. Then we'd have a chance.

Sara is also an excusinator par excellence. Clearly all of the rest of us have forced the fat to put too much food into their faces.

"Dr. Kirk is a former registered dietician and an expert on the management and prevention of obesity. The new Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research is with Dalhousie's School of Health Services Administration and is cross-appointed with the IWK Health Centre."

One could rightly ask if Sara is such an expert, why was she unable to keep people in the UK from creating their own obesity epidemic.

Her solution?

1. Make life harder
2. Make life less convenient
3. Turn back the clock
4. Blame the rest of us for human nature
5. Make life unnatural for humans

"Daily life has changed so dramatically in the past 50 years that most people have little opportunity for built in activity. The western 'driving and convenience culture' is seductive. 'As humans, we want to take the easy way and it's very hard to go against that,' she says....

'I'm only half way through my first year here, but there's a lot to be done,' she says. 'The problem is that, as humans, we want to take the easy way. And I wonder whether we can actually put the genie back in the bottle?'"

Sara is clearly a moron and 100% wrong.

She is also 100% an example of a supporter of the "root cause of obesity."

The root cause is and always will be more Calories in than out.

The root solution is and always will be fewer Calories in than out.

Among the reasons we cannot succeed at controlling this problem are:

1. We keep making excuses for overeaters
2. We refuse to hold people accountable for their overeating behavior
3. We continue to support overeating
4. We provide weight loss advice that is incorrect, impossible and doomed to fail everyone and anyone who attempts weight loss. (click here for the right stuff)

Yep, Sara is an example of a "root cause of obesity" and overweight as an epidemic.

Loud-mouthed idiots with a platform.