Is There a Moral Panic?

The obesity epidemic has been a very effective moral panic in that it has distracted us from heart diseases, the number one killer americans. If we care about diobedes, we need to take on diabedes. But right now, what we're taking on is a thing that is sort of a proxy risk factor,. And we're taking it on in part because we're all we've already decided what we think about fat people and how that came to be fat regardless of the data. It'sext y shitty to live in a world where people's sort of imagination of the healthiest and best world possible doesn't have people who look like me in it.