Kaste bort livet på slanking. Eller "How Britain got so fat"

[Harriet Vane]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...t-so-fat-obese

Denne interessante kronikken sto i the Guardian forleden.

Her siteres Angela Meadows:

Angela Meadows, from Birmingham University's psychology department, believes that diets, not the excess of junk food around us, are actually the root cause of the obesity epidemic. It is going on diets that causes people to gain weight, she says. "I started dieting when I was probably 12, 13 years old, when I wasn't fat. I dieted myself out like most people – if they are dieting, they tend to get very big, and they get bigger and bigger with every diet, and there is more self-loathing, more blaming, more comfort eating, more withdrawal, so you've got that avoiding, coping behaviour.
"The worse you feel about yourself, the less likely you are to go out and actually exercise, and people do sit at home and comfort eat, and then they get bigger and their problems get worse." Meadows' view, and that of the Health at Every Size movement, is that it is possible to be fat and fit – if you are active enough, your weight does not matter, because it is no longer a health issue.
"So over the years I dieted myself up from probably a sensible size 10 or whatever to the 20 I am now with enormous amounts of self-loathing. Now that I've stopped doing that, it's like I've got my life back. I think of the 30-odd years of my life that I put on hold and wasted. My mother's 72 and still won't leave the house unless her arms are covered. She still doesn't eat properly. She's dieted all her life as well. She was thin when she got married and got bigger.

Generations of women have been wasting their lives on this, and for what?"

Hvor mye tid bruker egentlig folk på å slanke seg? Og hvor mye utmerket hjernekapasitet og tilgjengelig tid brukes på slanking og skam?

Det er en passivisering i dette, en måte å holde folk passive på, å la dem skamme seg, slanke seg, stresse og streve, begrense seg selv av skam og skjensel, føle seg ille til mote, være ekstremt selvopptatt. Brød og sirkus, slanking og skam.