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In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Fat still isn't good for you. It's just that sugar is bad for you also.

There is never a better time to quit sugar than now. I lost 20 pounds within a few months when I did it. It is amazing the excess calories we eat without realizing.

Fat industry just took it like a bitch.

You understand that that campaign wasn't to promote "being fat" but was, instead, about ending the cycle of despair that traps many people in obesity, right? Like, food is addicting (on purpose, gotta make those profits) and there are people who struggle to eat the appropriate amount or get the correct nutrition. When you pile shame onto people, sure, some will change their habits and get their health back on track. But most people, when confronted with negative emotions, will attempt to soothe the feelings of negativity rather than deal with the source of the negativity. For many people, negative campaigns against obesity will just drive them to consume more. Or, maybe they'll try a fad diet out of desperation, unknowing that fad diets tend to be focused on quick results that don't have lasting impacts on overall health. Or even negative impacts, as they'll fail to stick with the diet and gain even more weight than they lost back.

Health at any size was focused on helping people to make small, meaningful changes that they could keep going with for a lifetime. By attempting to remove the stigma of weight, they were trying to get people out of focusing on their weight and instead focused on what they could do to feel better right now (in a healthy and constructive manner).

But, like most things, people who didn't understand what was being attempted shit on it endlessly until people stopped trying to do it.

The obesity epidemic isn't some moral failing of individuals it's a systemic failing and, until it's treated as such, the obesity rate will only continue to rise.

I already know this is going to be awash with downvotes (again, soothing negativity rather than dealing with the source) but it needs to be said.

Some young obese people have healthy markers, but sooner or later, as they age, the problems start.

People can be metabolically healthy at any size. That's the first step. If children are metabolically healthy, and not spiking their insulin all day, then their body will self regulate and lose weight.

I.e. don't lose weight to get healthy. Get healthy to lose weight.

Obesity and poor eating are often generational. Ignorance, poverty and misinformation can all be handed down at the same time as genetics. A lot of the parents don't know they're eating poorly. I don't think the majority are knowingly harming their own children.

Friends of my family, couple of kids similar in age. Always severely overweight. Used to comment all the time about how scrawny me and my siblings were - we were healthy weights. Years later I caught up with one of them - they were practically unrecognisable. They'd lost a ton of weight and said to me that growing up they'd always been told the family was 'big boned' but by no means did they ever consider themselves overweight, let alone obese. They saw healthy weight people outside their family and thought they were malnourished.

Your world view is shaped by your upbringing. I'm sure there's plenty of parents being neglectful or indifferent to their childrens' health but I'd say plenty more have no idea what they're doing. Add socio economic factors too, i.e. access to affordable fresh food, walkable cities etc.

It's not always that. I was fed properly as a kid... Just too much because I was eating my emotions. Being obese is a symptom of a problem. Treating the symptoms didn't work. It just comes right back.

Lies, i dont see any knee-socks.

Jokes aside i wonder if this person knew the context their picture was going to be used for or just sold the rights away to “medical journal.