Should We Assume Overweight People Are Lazy or Excessive?
Posted: 03/16/2014 10:08 am
Bill Bogart
"What are we to make of these complicated causes of obesity and its frequent onset at an early age? There are several implications. A crucial one is to surrender assumptions that all people who are fat are slovenly and indulgent and can and should diet themselves into thinness and caloric redemption. Once a person is obese it is very difficult for them to lose weight and to sustain that loss: 95 per cent of fat people who can shed pounds regain them (and sometimes additional weight) within five years. People who become obese, including those who do so at a young age, are likely to remain that way whatever their efforts to change."
