In this episode of Suspending Disbelief…
First-year UCLA Medical School students are now required to learn (be programmed) that it’s “proven that weight loss is a useless, hopeless endeavor.” It gets far worse and inherently more dangerous.
A syllabus from the medical school’s “Structural Racism and Health Equity” class includes an article by Marquisele Mercedes titled “No Health, No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath,” which declares, among other fallacies, “Fatphobia is medicine’s status quo.”
It is proven that weight loss is a useless, hopeless endeavor. You are unlikely to lose weight in any permanent way and highly likely to open yourself to the myriad risks associated with weight cycling. The relationship between weight and health is also muddy.
Here’s a portion of the “far worse and inherently more dangerous” part:
Medical fatphobia refers to the specific…
