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Demonising fat people
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Most doctors I know don't like having to do the whole CAGE/alcohol and smoking 'advice'. They still have to do it (don't know how much benefit it actually has as people don't like being told what's good for them, and as House says, "People Lie") but it's secondary to what is presented in terms of symptoms or disease, unlike Slimming World where the primary aim is to act as support and advise those who want to lose weight.
Fair enough - not sure it's actually good that it's private companies in general providing that kind of support as opposed to it being done through the NHS, but I can understand the difference. And I wouldn't exactly want to see the results (on queues or patients) if GP's were suddenly providing emotional support
I have problems with places like Slimming world and Weight watchers anyway in general as they don't teach people to be critical enough with food or what's going into it. Sure, they tell you to swap something for something else that's fat-free, but they fail to mention that fat-free often means it is compensated with a lot of sugar or something artificial. Or that you can stick with white pasta when in fact wholemeal is better and easier to digest.
Well, a lot of GPs do do that, some people just want to come to see their GP for some company or a chat, but in the current climate, it's very difficult to provide a more holistic approach, for instance, like in A&E where you have to fulfil your time targets otherwise you lose money.
Talk to some Chinese people and ask them for some recipes.
Like the vialls website?
I'm a bit astonished that you genuinly seem to have missed this social phenomena. I can tell you're not fat but you don't have any fat relatives or friends either? never noticed the revulsion to fat, the new shocking tantilising healdline word - it's worse for a celebrity to get fat than it is to shove powder up their nose? Seriously, the word 'fat' has this vast, horric set of negative values attached to it that have notihing to do with the actual substance of fat. If I want to call someone a cutting insult, I know that calling them a fat twat it going to hurt much more than a fucking cunt because 'fat' is this nasty word with all the aforementioned connotations. I can't see how you can compare this society's demonisation of fat with being short or spotty.
Well that's not completely racist :razz:
That's like saying "Ask a Scottish person how to play bagpipes". I mean we'll show you, but we won't be very happy about it.
Will you?
A lot of the food we cook does, always used it a lot in our cooking at home.
Also if MSG is so bad then why doesn't the whole population of Japan keeled over yet as they eat shedloads of the stuff.
My GP already does this. She's been really good to me recently.
I haven't missed out on this "phenomena" at all, I just think that it's no worse than what a lot of other people have to deal with, the only difference is it's more widespread because more people are fat (by a long way) than have any of the other physical features I mentioned.
sorry, I don't want to cause offence but I would love to see a pic of someone who doesn't do weights and is 24 stones and who would be described as sexy
Yeah, you girls are all bitches.
lol careful what you ask for.....
go find you own porn
type fat man into google, click images and show me the ones which are sexy - seriously, I am perplexed and genuinely interested
the guy with glasses, and the guy sat at the table just don't do it for me, but the rest are varying degrees of hot.
HOLY SHIT KILL IT WITH FIRE
Not really hugely in to men (though I have and am open to date them again)... But to be honest, I don't really have an issue with these men at all. They don't freak me out or anything.
I think some bigger women are lush, depending on what you call big. To be honest I've been called 'fat' (not that I care, fuck you if you don't like my body size because I'm comfy with it) and I'm hardly gigantic. I love curves on a woman, they can be very sexy and of course something to cuddle. I guess being quite rough and tumble anyway, I'm scared I'd snap somebody very petit.
Still, nobody is doing it for me at the moment as much as Tracy Chapman.
LOL
Random.
pmsl
I dont know if I can see any 24 stoners there
lol
Curvy is nice .. and youre not fat..
but anyway.. hands up
Who finds this sexy?
Seriously?
I am not doing it to look like a jerk, I just cannot find that sexy no way no how, and i cant understand how anyone can tbh, sorry but its just programmed in me.
Exactly. Cultural norms, and all that. There's no need to apologise for your weakness.
I wouldn't call it a weakness, different people find different things attractive. Obesity isn't typically attractive. It doesn't make you 'weak' because you're not in the minority who do find severe obesity attractive. That doesn't mean you can't be attracted to someone of that build, just that on appearances you're not going to be instantly attracted to them. Personality takes precedent in almost all cases.
Yeah but she looks quite happy with herself, and tbh its not up to her to conform to whatever you find attractive or not. Im sure youve never even met the woman. Shes not my cup of tea either, but im not everyone and there will be plenty of people out there that either find her attractive or wont find her especially unnattractive. One of my best friends husband has a very definite thing for big girls. Not that its the point.
What about the guy with the arm tattoo, and the one with the shaved head and full beard
it's the allowing oneself to be programmed that's weak