Tue, Feb-10-04, 15:38
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Finding the Pieces
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Plan: Mishmash
Stats: 365/308.0/185
BF:
Progress: 32%
Location: Maryland, US
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Just because you feel it is a contradiction doesn't make it so. In this thread you've heard from a few obese people that though obese they were healthy!! There are many of average weight who are not. As I said, NAAFTA does not support dieting but does support health.
Quotes have been made that purport to support the position that NAAFA doesn't support correcting health problems of the obese but encourages them to remain fat and grow ever larger.
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Originally posted by Lisa N NAAFA'S OFFICIAL POSITION:
Since reducing diets rarely achieve permanent weight loss and can result in negative health consequences, since laws and regulations protecting the consumer are nonexistent or remain unenforced, and since people undertaking diets are rarely given sufficient information to allow them to give true informed consent, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance strongly discourages participation in weight-reduction dieting.
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They give no exceptions to that statment. It's a blanket statement across the board for all persons who are overweight.
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Now let's see how they arrived at that stance
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The term "diet" within this policy refers exclusively to weight reduction diets. "Dieting" is defined as any attempt to achieve or maintain lower body weight by intentionally limiting or manipulating the amount or type of food intake. Weight reduction diets include medically supervised diets; self-administered diets; commercial diet organizations and centers; weight-loss support groups or behavior modification programs; "fad" diets; "sensible, well-balanced" diets; in-hospital fasts; very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs); prepackaged food plans; and diets supplemented by drugs or artificial food products or supplements.
"Dieting" does not refer to attempts to lower fat sugar, salt, or cholesterol intake, increase fiber intake, exercise or pursue a medically mandated nutritional regimen prescribed for specific medical conditions. Weight-loss diets have long been promoted as a permanent cure for "obesity," although they rarely produce long-lasting or permanent results. According to existing medical research, fewer than five percent of all dieters succeed in losing a significant amount of weight and maintaining that weight loss over a five-year period. Ninety percent of all dieters regain some or all of the weight originally lost and at least one-third gain more. In recent years, an increasing body of research has substantiated this diet failure rate and acknowledged genetic and physiological factors in the determination of body size.
Although these statistics apply to all types of diets, even those considered "sensible," physicians continue to prescribe weight-loss diets as a viable treatment for fat patients; and researchers, the media, and the diet industry continue to urge fat people to resist their body's natural predisposition and struggle harder to lose weight. As diet failure rates become widely publicized, some "experts" pretend to abandon "dieting" and encourage their clients to "just eat less and exercise more."
Promoting diets and diet products is a major industry in the United States. According to Marketdata Enterprises, the annual revenue for the diet industry was over $30 billion dollars in 1990. This figure includes money spent on diet centers and programs, group and individual weight-loss, diet camps, prepackaged foods; over-the-counter and prescription diet drugs; weight-loss books and magazines; and physicians, nurses, nutritionists, and other health professionals specializing in weight-loss (total 1990 revenue - $8 billion); commercial and residential exercise clubs with weight-loss programs (total 1990 revenue - $8 billion); and sugar-free, fat-free, and reduced calorie ("lite") food products, imitation fats and sugar substitutes (total 1990 revenue - $14 billion).
The diet industry's advertising and marketing strategy is based on the creation and perpetuation of fear, biases, and stereotypes. Fat people are portrayed as unhealthy, unattractive, asexual, weak-willed, lazy, and gluttonous. Weight loss or a thin figure are equated with virtue, health, and success. Failure to participate in dieting or lack of success in losing weight are blamed on a lack of willpower or determination and a lack or moral values. Fat people are taught to feel guilty and blame themselves for
the failures of weight-loss programs, and to expect and accept rejection, mistreatment, and discrimination regarding their weight. This negative media campaign has a devastating impact on millions of fat people. These messages lower fat people's self-esteem and foster discontent, self-doubt, and self-hatred, especially during the weight regain state of the dieting "yo-yo" cycle.
Diet promoters also emphasize dieting's supposed health benefits and minimize risks related to dieting. People of all sizes are misled about the extent and severity of the health risks associated with being fat and are told that being thin is the only way to good health, and that dieting makes people thin. Many health problems traditionally attributed to "obesity," such as high blood pressure, heart problems, high cholesterol, and gallbladder problems, are often caused by the dieting process itself. Recent studies indicate that repeated "yo-yo" dieting may actually reduce one's life span rather than increase longevity.
Currently there are very few controls or regulations to inform and protect the dieting consumer. Weight loss "success" is only vaguely defined using short-term results, and weight loss "failure is always blamed on the consumer, and health risks are not disclosed. The few regulations that do exist are rarely, or at most, loosely enforced.
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I would like to emphasize this NAAFA stance
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"Dieting" does not refer to attempts to lower fat sugar, salt, or cholesterol intake, increase fiber intake, exercise or pursue a medically mandated nutritional regimen prescribed for specific medical conditions.
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Seems to me that that is an exception. 
Re the comments about giving in to carb urges and choice. I have seen some of you who are commenting to me remark how you stuffed your faces when triggered, true it was lc but you stuffed your faces. CAD, for me, controls carb addition. I don't think of carbs because I can have them once a day. I certainly don't obsess about them and, in fact, can have carbs in my house and ignore them for months on end. I don't have bottomless hunger which is the reaction of a carb addict uncontrolled. I get full, sometimes before the meal has "ended". I don't see carbs everywhere!! They don't call to me!! At least not if I'm not accidentally triggered. And if I am, the feeling is so foreign to my daily "me" that I know immediately what has happened and how to deal with it. And believe me, that is not to cram my face with carbs!!! I don't have any emotional issues regarding my weight. I dealt with my "emotions" around my weight years ago (and many of those issues were created by being overweight and other peoples' treatment of me and not from emotions themselves.) Which comes first? The fat. A fat child is accepted and loved, it's when the "loving" comments and criticism starts that the emotional issues arise.
But I remember....I remember how I was before CAD. I remember the uncontrollable urges and the not understanding what was happening. The how can I be hungry I just ate feeling. The bottomless pit feeling. The never being satisfied...the always being hungry and the more I ate...the hungrier I would get. That was not emotional...that was physical. It was real.
And how did the spiral start? My mother put me on my first diet at eight with a "diet" doctor. Years later I was transporting my medical charts from my regular and long-term health center and sat down to read them from the beginning. About my eight year old self, I read, "Patient is healthy. She is at the top of her group for weight. Parents and all siblings are thin. Mother is obsessed and determined daughter is fat and must lose weight. Problem is with the mother."
Do you know how that made me feel years later as an adult, mother to my own growing daughter, "Problem is with the mother." That's when I determined to accept myself and stop the madness!!!
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