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Great blog; I stumbled on
Great blog; I stumbled on this. Thanks for this entry.
I read something recently in the geography literature that compared the new "medicalization" of obesity (i.e., that fatness is a disease) to earlier social movements of temperance. In times when temperance was promoted as a big health issue, it was partly because doctors were indeed worried about the health effects of alcohol, but in large part due to their own feelings about _morality_.
So, focusing on fat bodies as if they are deviant, sinful, lazy, gluttonous could arguably come as much from the perceptions of morality than any real proven health concerns (the jury is still out, for example, whether obesity CAUSES diabetes, heart disease, etc., OR the other way around....).