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Is Being Fat Bad For You?

Maintenance Phase

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The Biggest Need Is Weight Loss

The group with the highest prevalence of grade three obesity is black women who didn't complete high school. The idea that any of the data does account for medical bias and the ways in which doctors will like diagnose illnesses differs from person to person. Fat people, understandably, will postpone health care as long as they possibly can. And fat people are much more likely to get gall stones. It just feels utterly bananas that we have a cultural conversation that is dominated by thin people and thin people's imagining of fat people's health and not the like.

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