Obesity Has A Serious Impact On Health – It Shortened My Mum’s Life | Letter

With reference to nan letters connected Rose Stokes’ article (I thought we’d entered nan property of assemblage positivity. Then came ‘shrinking woman summer’ – is everyone getting smaller isolated from me?, 10 August), I would for illustration to adhd a individual view. My beautiful mom was overweight each of her big life – betwixt 17 chromatic and 18 stone. She could ne'er tally astir and play pinch america children. In her 40s she developed glucosuria and precocious humor pressure. Many DVTs and pulmonary embolisms followed. She died of a coronary aged 62.

We should each unrecorded without fearfulness of stigma and ridicule. This doesn’t mean that we should make choices that shorten our lives aliases promote others to do so. Being overweight brings wellness risks. Blaming nan patriarchy, fatphobia aliases large pharma doesn’t trim those risks.

My beautiful dada – who was ne'er overweight – died astatine nan property of 93. In my mind, I mislaid a 3rd of nan clip I mightiness person had pinch my mom, a nonaccomplishment I put squarely down to obesity. I interest progressively for our young group – men and women – wherever being overweight is becoming normalised.

Sadly, successful my mini municipality successful south-west England, nan thought that “everyone is getting smaller” is demonstrably untrue.
Frances Knight
Devon