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With reference to the letters on Rose Stokes\u2019 article (I thought we\u2019d entered the age of body positivity. Then came \u2018shrinking girl summer\u2019 \u2013 is everyone getting smaller except me?, 10 August), I would like to add a personal view. My lovely mom was overweight all of her adult life \u2013 between 17 stone and 18 stone. She could never run around and play with us children. In her 40s she developed diabetes and high blood pressure. Many DVTs and pulmonary embolisms followed. She died of a coronary aged 62.<\/p>\n
We should all live without fear of stigma and ridicule. This doesn\u2019t mean that we should make choices that shorten our lives or encourage others to do so. Being overweight brings health risks. Blaming the patriarchy, fatphobia or big pharma doesn\u2019t reduce those risks.<\/p>\n
My lovely dad \u2013 who was never overweight \u2013 died at the age of 93. In my mind, I lost a third of the time I might have had with my mom, a loss I put squarely down to obesity. I worry increasingly for our young people \u2013 men and women \u2013 where being overweight is becoming normalised.<\/p>\n
Sadly, in my small town in south-west England, the idea that \u201ceveryone is getting smaller\u201d is demonstrably untrue. With reference to the letters on Rose Stokes\u2019 article (I thought we\u2019d entered the age of body positivity. Then came \u2018shrinking girl summer\u2019 \u2013 is everyone getting smaller except me?, 10 August), I would like to add a personal view. My lovely mom was overweight all of her adult life \u2013 between 17 stone and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[37,265,337,10244,933,10243],"class_list":{"0":"post-17057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-impact","10":"tag-life","11":"tag-mums","12":"tag-obesity","13":"tag-shortened"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Frances Knight
<\/strong>Devon<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"