Why Fat-Shaming Is Wrong.

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22. That study was halted because it showed no reduction in mortality.

It was a study of diabetes patients, and it showed that the modest weight loss that some of the participants were able to sustain was not, in fact, able to reduce their mortality.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/772429

" I think our patients did a fantastic job, and we were able to see an 8.6% reduction in body weight in the first year. That was not entirely sustained. During the next year, that weight loss changed to only about 5% of their body weight, but that was maintained through the duration of the trial to 11 years. We were able to show that we could produce modest weight loss and improve physical activity over time in these individuals with type 2 diabetes. However, what we did not show was a reduction in cardiovascular events and death."

See also:
https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/the-mystery-of-look-ahead/

"And sure enough, Dr. Wing is reporting Look AHEAD as a success, because it 'found that people who are obese and have Type 2 diabetes can lose weight and maintain their weight loss with a lifestyle intervention.'

"This is a highly misleading claim. At year four, subjects had gained back roughly half of their relatively modest weight loss. For a 200 pound person, an 8% loss (average for the group) is 16 pounds, and half of that was regained.

"The intervention was far more intense than anything people can do outside of a scientific study. In the real world, nobody is seeing health professionals every week for a year to lose weight.

"And despite this intense support, they didn’t lose much, and the rates of cardiovascular problems and deaths were the same for both groups."

Please explain why people must be shamed to starve themselves to fit into a weight category *you* want them to fit just because they happen to have been born with genes that make them fat, when there are not even health benefits that result from such starvation.