It's good job I'm a social scientist then!

It's true that obesity may not be a central daily concern of those who are on
low-income as they struggle to provide a decent quality of life for themselves
and their family. But this doesn't change the fact that their children may live
shorter lives, have more chronic illness and, as you say face stigma and
predjudice, because they are overweight. Health and social problems associated
with obesity may also compromise the ability of children and adults on a
low-income to escape the poverty trap in a variety of ways. The recent series
of reports and personal stories in the New York Times on Type II Diabetes
really indicates that..

S


Quoting Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]>:

> When I did my community quality of life projects, I can assure you poor
> people were not concerned about their weight.  They were concerned about
> providing their children with food, clothing, and a chance in life.  They
> were also concerned with stigmatization and degrading attitudes towards
> them by those who were not poor.
>
> http://www.utoronto.ca/qol/community.htm
>
> The emphasis on obesity is being shaped by the priviliged professional
> community for whom this emphasis is meeting their own interests and needs
> not the needs of the poor. More money, more finding, more research, more
> prestige, and more trips to exotic places for conferences.
>
>  For the poor, shortened lives of misery may seem like a good way to go.
>
> Pat Caponi said "Poverty is a life sentence with no chance of parole."
>
> Similarly, a colleague once said to me:
> "Epidemiologists care about how long people live.  Social scientists care
> about what their lives are like while they are alive!"
>
> dr
>
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