In fact, let me back up a moment on obesity. We’re still figuring out the language for this discussion. The word is rightly offensive to many people and calling obesity a disease is stigmatising. Many people don’t live with obesity as a disease but as an identity. For others it’s just a way of being, and an increasingly normal way of being at that. Weight gain is not inevitably associated with increased risk of health problems and the risk of death is in fact lower for many people who live with overweight than for those who live at a ‘healthy’ weight. Nonetheless, I will sometimes use the word
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