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Fat shaming / Fatphobia is a real thing?
Had no idea.
Is there such a thing a short shaming?
Small penis shaming?
Male pattern baldness shaming?
"Enter socially undesirable physical attribute" shaming?
Is this why the term had to evolve from "Fat shaming" to "Body shaming" - even further from the real issue?
I get that people can be cruel but the pendulum cant swing to the other extreme of a Lizzo either.
The truth is a bit more complex than "people are mean".
Humans are only as good as our options and the FDA / Food industry / city council (food deserts) are much too powerful so here we are beating around the bush.
People threw a fit when Government tried to take their soda because SUGAR IS A DRUG.
Europe has banned most of the more serious crap we have here in the US.
Writing for the New York Times'
www.advisory.com
Either we are going to address the issue fully or we aren't. "People are mean" aint gonna do it.
Also - how does an increasingly large population impact an increasingly aging population?
Between 1993 and 2003, there was a 55 percent increase in the rate of fatal falls for elderly adults. Because of the increasing age in the general population, the number of elderly patients visiting the emergency department with ground-level falls is increasing, and will likely continue to rise in the future. It is now estimated that 30 percent of adults older than 65 years will experience an unintentional fall each year.
“Instead of an influx of ‘traditional’ knife-and-gun club victims, trauma centers of the future may need to prepare for treatment of a less dramatic but no less relevant form of injury that may very well have a substantial impact on the health and independence of our older citizens,” said Thomas S. Helling, M.D., from the Department of Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
The negative effect of age on health outcomes has been well established in past studies in other areas as well. Many elderly adults are frail and have pre-existing medical conditions, such as heart disease. In these types of patients, a low-level fall that results in a broken hip could have serious, far-reaching consequences. According to Cheng, “An 80 year old often can’t tolerate and recover from trauma like a 20 year old.”
While simple falls, such as slipping while walking off a curb, may seem relatively harmless, they can actually lead to severe injury and death in elderly individuals, according to a new study published in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. As the population continues to...
www.urmc.rochester.edu
The weight of an object is the force of
gravity on the object and may be defined as the
mass times the acceleration of
gravity, w = mg. Since the weight is a force, its SI unit is the newton.
The physics of this equation aint looking too good for the healthcare system.
