LadyRebel said:
Quoted message said:What Do Fat People Want?
WE WANT fat children to grow up safe from ridicule and physical violence.
Such hate crimes rob fat children of their self-esteem and their hope for
the future. To this end, we want schools, social service agencies, and
courts to recognize, and help alleviate, the socially condoned
mistreatment of fat children.
Children are picked on for a variety of reasons. This has been a universal
problem since the stone age.
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WE WANT to be healthy. We also want people to understand that being
healthy does not necessarily mean being thin.
Morbidly obese never means healthy.
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WE WANT doctors who focus on our health and well-being, not on weight
loss.
Doctors take an oath to do no harm.
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WE WANT doctors to stop pushing dangerous treatments: diets, diet pills,
liposuction, and weight-loss surgery. As the New England Journal of
Medicine said recently, "The cure for obesity [sic] may be worse than the
condition."
I agree with this. Doctors need to get real and encourage their morbidly
obese patients to cease their gluttonous lifestyles.
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WE WANT diagnostic equipment that will accommodate us: MRIs, CAT scans,
ultrasound machines, some X-ray machines, etc.
At the expense of everyone else.
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WE WANT health insurance companies to stop denying coverage based on
weight.
Many health insurance companies provide coverage for the morbidly obese,
you just want to pay the same price as those of us who are HWP.
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WE WANT surgeons to stop refusing to operate on us unless we lose weight,
just because they do not have the skill, the tools, or the technique to
work with large bodies. (Ironically, sometimes the only surgery a fat
person can obtain is mutilating weight-loss surgery.)
Morbidly obese people suffer from a much higher rate of post-operative
complications. This is due to an abundance of adipose tissue to cut
through and the general poor health of the patient, not a lack of training
on the surgeon's part.
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WE WANT the media to stop quoting inaccurate and spurious statistics about
fat mortality rates. This practice only reinforces the prejudice we face.For example, the oft-quoted figure of 300,000 fat-related deaths in
America is based on a study (McGinnis and Foege, JAMA, Nov. 10, 1993) that
linked these deaths to sedentary lifestyle and poor diet, not to weight!
You can't say the same about (N Engl J Med. 1999 Oct 7;341(15):1140-1).
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WE WANT the FDA to test weight-loss drugs thoroughly for safety before
approving them for use by millions of consumers who are all-too-eager for
a miracle pill, even when it is life-threatening. Beyond that, we question
the value or wisdom of seeking medical cures for social problems in the
first place.
Rein in your gluttony and weight loss medication will not be needed.
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WE WANT doctors and health professionals to heed the New England Journal
of Medicine's January 1, 1998 editorial, "Losing Weight-An Ill-Fated New
Year's Resolution," when it says:"Doctors should do their part to help end discrimination against
overweight [sic] people in schools and workplaces. We should also speak
out against the public's excessive infatuation with being thin and the
extreme, expensive, and potentially dangerous measures taken to attain
that goal. Many Americans are sacrificing their appreciation of one of the
great pleasure of life--eating--in an attempt to look like our semi-starved
celebrities. Countless numbers of our daughters and increasingly many of
our sons are suffering immeasurable torment in fruitless weight-loss
schemes and scams, and some are losing their lives."
Anyone who think that fat activists are starving themselves should pay a
visit to http://www.naafa.org and look at some of the pictures.
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We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
Too bad for you that the concept of fat acceptance is universally scorned.
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We invite people of good conscience to join with us in decrying the last
acceptable prejudice in our culture--the prejudice against fat people.
It's discernment, not prejudice.
Quoted message said:Help us create a world that celebrates diversity of size!
Personal failure is nothing to celebrate.