Study: 'Fat-ism' More Widespread Than Racism

The supremacy of stupid is more widespread than either.

"The social current driving this is the obvious fact that no one is responsible for his or her race, or gender or even age. That's a given. But the traditional thinking goes that people should be able to control their weight, so if they're obese, it's their fault."

Clearly this is true. It is their fault.

Fat does not happen overnight and does not sneak up on a person.

Fat is a commitment to a long-term process.

"'We place a lot of emphasis on personal responsibility for body weight,' she said. 'Our billion-dollar diet industry is founded on that premise. Your weight is modifiable. But that does not reflect the current state of science.'"

Clearly this is wrong.

The past, current and future "state of science" is that weight is modifiable. And this is 100% true.

It is an immutable law of the entire universe.

That includes fat people.

The issue is not the "state of science."

The issue is the current state of expert weight loss advice is non-scientific, including and especially the advice from Yale where this crappy research was done.

Getting fat is the fault of the fatso. (Except little kids where the parents, doctors and teachers are the likely perpetrators/child abusers.)

However, the failure of the rescue industries, i.e., the sick care and diet industries, to help them is not their fault.

And this Yale researcher is part of the problem. A big part.

"We live in a very toxic food environment,' Puhl said. 'We make it very easy for people to be unhealthy. Unhealthy foods, or junk foods, are accessible, cheap and engineered to taste very, very good. Healthy foods, like produce, are not as accessible, and are more expensive.'"

She perpetuates the myth of "healthy" foods, which has no place in the weight debate, though healthy eating does.

And, without conceding the point, if something is more expensive and better for you, don't buy the XBox or Wii or PSP or DVD or whatever and set your priorities better.

Plus she is in denial about what really works:

"'We take this personal responsibility approach and say well, just exercise more and eat less, but it's much more complicated than that,' Puhl said. 'If it were that easy, we wouldn't have this epidemic that we have now.'"

And it is that easy, though exercise is the hugely less efficient of the two.

It is just that people, like this imbecile from Yale, make excuse after excuse to let people off the hook.

Excuses, like these:

"Puhl (whose BMI is in the normal range) thinks this is a very big deal. Our culture, she said, sanctions biases against people who are even a little overweight. We blame them for a condition that may result from their genes, or a health problem, and that condemnation in many cases backfires."

There is no genetic cause to obesity or overweight, as there is no infectious or hormonal or cultural or whatever cause.

The only cause is too many Calories in relative to Calories out.

The sooner moron research like this stops getting funded and publicized and the extremely simple science of weight loss makes the headlines instead, the better off we will be.

But what do you expect from the media sponsor of IMHO cons Oprah Winfrey, Mehmet Oz, David Katz and Jorge Cruise?