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How to Talk About Obesity Without Dehumanising Affected People

Sophie Hagen wrote a book about kind of the demonisation of people who are overweight. We need to find ways of viewing these issues without dehumanising them, says Michael Hobbs. I am at the low end of clinical overweight and you know statistically it's likely that half the people in the room are overweight or live with the obesity. Have overweight or have a beastie. And so Aubrey didn't, couldn't answer the question and she just said you have to sort of understand there probably isn't any way of talking about this without really traumatising affected people. So if you live with the beast. You could live with obesity when you're seeing your doctor and talking about

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