Questioning The Obesity Myth

By: Sussy Harlet

The Fleshiness Myth: Why United States's Obsession with Weight
Is Hazardous to Your Health. Gotham Books, New York, 2004. At a
June 2, 2005, press conference, Dr. Julie Gerberding, the
director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
apologized for the mixed messages the populace has been getting
approximately the dangers of fleshiness. Acknowledging that
flawed data in several CDC studies had exaggerated the risks of
, Gerberding was responding in part to critics such as Saint
Paul Campos. Campos rightly sounds the alarm over bad skill, and
his volume The Myth (reissued in May 2005 as The Diet Myth) was
prominently featured in a recent Scientific American cover
clause.

The Bible and controversy provide an object lesson in
skepticism. Campos is not a checkup professional but a lawyer;
he makes a point of mentioning this, implying that his status as
an outsider to the issuance aids his judgment. It is important
to remember, however, that lawyers do not seek the truth;
instead, they advocate for one side. In this case, Campos is
advocating on behalf of those who believe that the efforts to
portray fatness as unhealthy and unacceptable ar driven by
debris scientific discipline, hatred of blubber people, and a
profit-hungry dieting industry. He also believes that the
time-honored free weight loss recipe of watching what you eat
and exercising doesn't work. Campos charges that "almost
everything the government and the media [] saying close to
exercising weight and weighting control [is] either grossly
distorted or flatly untrue." The whole field is rife with "dust
," Campos writes, and former Operating surgeon Full general
Jacques Louis David Satcher was "brainsick" in his efforts to
curb US's .

It is certainly true, as Dr. Gerberding admitted (and Patrick
Johnson explains in this publication), that assorted estimates
of 's death toll were consistently overdone. While Campos and
other critics can gloat in vindication, the fact is that is only
the latest in a long list of world threats that have been by a
sensationalist news media (and, to a lesser degree, by the
medical checkup community). The dire warnings, publicity, and
hype surrounding West Nile virus, ebola, flu, anthrax, Mad Cow
disease, and even AIDS, to name just a few, all far outstripped
any reasonable threat. And confusing and contradictory medical
examination information is hardly novel, as William Baarschers
describes in his in this exit.

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