As long as health insurance is a pooled resource, social concern with obesity will remain a given. This fact of life is left out, or ignored, by the "body positivity" movement. Nonetheless, there are right ways (such as you have used here) and wrong ways , like ridicule and shunning, to address obese and highly overweight people. My weight loss coach was successful, in getting me to drop from 206 to 165, by offering a complete program-diet, exercise and meditation. This worked in my case, and is slowly working for my middle brother. Sister is another matter, and no one dares provoke her wrath by getting on her about weight. I leave her to her own devices, since we have had our issues, over the years.
As long as health insurance is a pooled resource, social concern with obesity will remain a given. This fact of life is left out, or ignored, by the "body positivity" movement. Nonetheless, there are right ways (such as you have used here) and wrong ways , like ridicule and shunning, to address obese and highly overweight people. My weight loss coach was successful, in getting me to drop from 206 to 165, by offering a complete program-diet, exercise and meditation. This worked in my case, and is slowly working for my middle brother. Sister is another matter, and no one dares provoke her wrath by getting on her about weight. I leave her to her own devices, since we have had our issues, over the years.
Obesity affects everyone , health costs continue to go up.