After a year of health obsession and helping create a medical apartheid state, the CBC is starting the New Year by pushing the ‘healthy at all sizes’ conspiracy theory.
In an article entitled “Need a healthy new year’s resolution? Don’t talk about weight, say health officials,” the CBC drags out a single nurse and a single dietician — their ‘officials’ — to misconstrue the nurse’s anecdote and push the idea that people’s feelings are just as important as their weight regarding overall health.
“Danielle Shewfelt, a public health nurse with LGLDHU, says it’s all resulted in a phenomenon called “weight bias” which assumes skinny people eat better and exercise more and vice versa,” the CBC writes.
“Shewfelt says that’s not always the case: in one instance from her own life, her husband — whom she describes as small — was stressed, not eating well and not sleeping. A blood test also found his cholesterol was very high.”
“But a doctor assumed he was fine, she said, because he wasn’t overweight.”
Do you hear that, bigot? One skinny guy got sick! So that must mean there isn’t a high correlation between weight and health.
Unfortunately, none of the science backs this opinion up.
And as for the other claim that the CBC tries to push with the help of their ‘officials,’ that the mental burden of being told to lose some weight can cause eating disorders and depression, merely being obese is associated with higher rates of mental illness.
As the CDC, which the CBC loves, explains:
People who have obesity, compared to those with a healthy weight, are at increased risk for many serious diseases and health conditions, including the following:
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All-causes of death (mortality)
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High blood pressure (hypertension)
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High LDL cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol, or high levels of triglycerides (Dyslipidemia)
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Type 2 diabetes
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Coronary heart disease
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Stroke
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Gallbladder disease
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Osteoarthritis (a breakdown of cartilage and bone within a joint)
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Sleep apnea and breathing problems
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Low quality of life
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Mental illness such as clinical depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders
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Body pain and difficulty with physical functioning
Moreover, according to the Mayoclinic, obesity “increases the risk of developing severe symptoms if you become infected with the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). People who have severe cases of COVID-19 may require treatment in intensive care units or even mechanical assistance to breathe.”
You’d think that a media organization obsessed with scaremongering to the public over COVID-19’s supposed threat would be worried about comorbidities such as obesity, but consistency isn’t really one of the CBC’s strong suits.
