Health Sciences Institute Advocates Morbidity

After moonbattery has infiltrated and subverted an institution, it is repurposed to advance objectives opposite to those originally intended. The media now serves not to inform but to distort and suppress information. Liberal churches promote not the holy but the unholy. Border authorities assist foreign invasion. Rather than entice, Victoria’s Secret nauseates.

Campus Reform presents an example from academia:

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute promotes resources on “weight stigma” and “anti-fat bias” through its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming.

Advocating smoking would not be less helpful.

The institute maintains a collection of “Diversity Resources,” including a page devoted to “weight stigma and anti-fat bias.” …

Among the resources is the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance’s annual “Fat Liberation Month.”

The association describes its mission as changing “perceptions of fat and end size discrimination through advocacy, education, and support.”

Diseases associated with the condition these moonbats advocate include the following per Grok:

Cardiovascular and Metabolic
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Dyslipidemia (abnormal cholesterol/triglycerides: high LDL or triglycerides, low HDL)
• Type 2 diabetes (nearly 9 in 10 people with type 2 diabetes have overweight or obesity)
• Coronary heart disease / other heart disease
• Stroke
• Metabolic syndrome
• Chronic kidney disease
• Venous thromboembolism (higher risk of blood clots)

Respiratory
• Obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing problems
• Asthma
• Obesity hypoventilation syndrome
• More severe illness from respiratory infections (e.g., COVID-19, flu)⁠

Musculoskeletal and Physical Function
• Osteoarthritis (especially weight-bearing joints like knees and hips)
• Body pain and reduced physical functioning
• Gout
• Other joint/orthopedic issues (more common in children/adolescents with obesity)

Gastrointestinal and Liver
• Gallbladder disease and gallstones
• Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD, formerly NAFLD) and related progression (e.g., NASH, cirrhosis)
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)/heartburn

Cancers
• Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus
• Breast (postmenopausal)
• Colon and rectum
• Uterus (endometrial)
• Gallbladder
• Upper stomach (gastric cardia)
• Kidney
• Liver
• Ovary
• Pancreas
• Thyroid
• Meningioma
• Multiple myeloma

Mental Health and Quality of Life
• Depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders
• Lower quality of life
• Weight stigma and related psychological effects

At least liberals can help out with the stigma.

Other Associated Conditions
• All-cause mortality (higher risk of early death)
• Fertility problems and pregnancy complications
• Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
• Skin issues (e.g., rashes, worsening of psoriasis, acanthosis nigricans)
• Impaired immune function

Then again, considering that “reproductive health” now means “preventing reproduction,” often by killing babies, why not redefine “health” to mean “morbidity”?

As for those who might resist the march or rather waddle of progress regarding affirmation of obesity, a University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health guide attributes their attitudes to “racism and eugenics.”

On a tip from R F.

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