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…..”The Skinny on Obesity”. In this episode, Dr. Robert Lustig illustrates the overabundance of sugar in today's processed convenience foods and explains how our bodies metabolize these sugars in the same way as alcohol or other toxins, causing damage to the liver and other organs.
I have thought the same thing myself. But over and beyond the reasons why people are heavier, I feel it is most important to stop the hatred and shaming of heavy people. Shame never did anything to cure any condition. If it did, there would be no heavy people, no smokers, no alcoholics, no drug users, and no-one would be mentally ill, because they would have been shamed into stopping their stinkin' thinkin'. Yes, it is important to examine the reasons why people are less healthy. Note that size does not necessarily correlate with health. There are large people who are healthy and thin people who are not.
