Originally Posted by Doug5150

Well I did offer three options.
Categorizing others wouldn't be big of me.


I feel a bit silly arguing medicine with a surgeon, but anyway-
but it won't stop you
Secondly--telling fat people to starve themselves thin is not a cure, it is a treatment that completely avoids confronting the cause. Of course the cause isn't known, and that's not your fault--but the point still stands.


Let's play a game: we'll call it "What Causes This?" Everybody get your doctor hats on! Are you ready?
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All the above questions are similar, in that they all involve acts that can be controlled consciously--yet any of the first seven is presumed to have a medical cause that can be addressed directly. Obesity is the last medical condition left that is still acceptable to blame entirely on the patient's lack of self-control.

If you look back on the entire history of medical science, it doesn't make any sense at all that people would willingly make themselves suffer with being obese.