Important to note that the doctor is a chiropractic doctor (a practice based in pseudoscience) not a medical doctor.
I say that all the time. People look at an obese person and thinks “that’s disgusting you should be ashamed” and the same person will look at an anorexic peeson and think “oh poor girl hope she can recover from her eating disorder”
They are both eating disorders!
Let’s try to go pass our biases and see obesity for what it is, a eating disorder, not with disgust or shame.
Edit: I would just like to point out to the dumbdumbs that I am overweight and was obese for a while. I am a witness of how bad people will treat you without even knowing your background or problems that took you there. Not everyone is a suitable candidate for bariatric or ozempic, there are lots of different reasons and only a very small portion is caused by lazyness as toxic people like to call it. I am and will always be an avid defender of humans treating humans like humans and not “lazy fucks”.
The problem is people spent years trying to push a narrative that fat people are beautiful and we all need to love and worship how amazing it is.
No one ever says that shit about a meth head.
Majority of the world is overweight. We clearly are not doing enough to make it a negative train in society compared to its accepted or “beauty” status.
Alcoholics can stop drinking alcohol. But people can’t stop eating. It’s not possible. You cannot avoid all fat, sugar and salt like an alcoholic avoids alcohol.
You can’t stop drinking alcohol without medical assistance once you’re an alcoholic, or you will die.
This is factually incorrect. Source: me stopping drinking.
It’s factually correct for people who have developed a physical dependency on alcohol.
Source: thousands of medical examples, studies, data, and decades of research.
We all know what the original commenter meant, though: that alcoholic drinks are not a necessity of living.
You can’t say that about food
This is highly dependent on so many factors its basically not true. If they’re heavy alcoholics who shake when not going with a drink for a few hours then its likely, but not guarunteed, for them to need assistance to quit cold turkey
That’s true for a certain percentage but misses part of the point here. Once an alcoholic has successfully detoxed, it is possible and highly encouraged that they do not partake any alcohol going forward.
That simply isn’t possible with obesity as humans require food to survive. So this is where the analogy with alcoholism breaks down as it is never possible for the obese person to be the equivalent of “sober.” Instead they have to learn moderation which is conceptually a different challenge than becoming a teetotaler.
Food isn’t addictive in the same way alcohol or other drugs are though.
Ah yes it is.
