The Current Trend

There is a current trend that seems to be supported by the media and large corporations to normalize obesity, and even celebrate it.
In my opinion, this is very dangerous and misguided.
While we can all agree that we should treat everyone with kindness and respect, regardless of any physical characteristic, supporting a changeable condition that leads to poor health is a problem.
Obesity is associated with many health risks, especially diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and poor immune function.
The latter has been very evident in our ongoing pandemic, where obese people had a much higher rate of hospitalization and death.
As a physician, it should be my job to help my patients achieve optimal health and prevent disease, rather than ignoring sensitive issues and setting people up for lifelong chronic disease that needs to be managed with a host of medications.