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Anthea Turner - fat shaming and disablist (covid)

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FTMF30 · 12/02/2021 19:56

So Anthea Turner has felt the wrath of pretty much everyone for her recent Tweet. Very silly of her, being someone in the public eye.

I felt she was trying to make a valid point but failed terribly with that offensive cartoon. And what did she mean with the caption "Go for it"?
www.google.com/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/anthea-turner-twitter-fat-shaming-covid-face-mask-b919526.html%3famp

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Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 13/02/2021 14:29

She is an annoying twat.

Hopefully this will finish her career.

randomer · 13/02/2021 14:29

She is a Z lister but still " a name". She could have used this and her wealth to create something really great. If she genuinely wants to support people to become healthier, there are so many things she could do with a modest start up fund.
She could fund hundreds of young people to train as coaches and work alongside people for example.

SecretSpAD · 13/02/2021 14:52

@duckalemon

Is the woman whose wedding was sponsored by flake?
That's the one 😂. I think irrelevant and pointless are the only words to describe her and now, add ignorant and disgusting following the tweet.

It's such a shame that all the young, slim and abled bodies have to find the NHS for all the old fat and/or disabled people who don't contribute to society in anyway whatsoever.

Oh wait. Older people, fat People and disabled people pay for the NHS as well 😱

SecretSpAD · 13/02/2021 15:05

@hamstersarse

Obesity now kills more people than smoking 🤷‍♀️
No it doesn't. Smoking is linked to 55,000 deaths and obesity 20,000 deaths. Cancer Research UK.
Followthelarch · 13/02/2021 15:35

It must be so hard, I'm naturally too slim, it's nothing to do with will power, my appetite is small and I feel full very quickly, it must be awful if you literally never feel full. I eat crap food though which is not healthy, I totally get the addiction to fat and sugar, it's so easy to eat.

Hotzenplotz · 13/02/2021 15:44

Anthea Turner is pointless.

tabulahrasa · 13/02/2021 15:45

@Flapjak

someone is morbidly obese then there's something else going on with them. 'Healthy' people don't do that to themselves and until the underlying issues are identified and dealt with, obesity is going nowhere.

So where were all the morbidly obese people in the 70s and 80s?

Being brought up not to pay attention to their appetites and not to waste food by clearing their plates mostly, IME.
notacooldad · 13/02/2021 15:45

Anthea Turner is pointless
What does this mean?

wowier · 13/02/2021 15:49

So where were all the morbidly obese people in the 70s and 80s?

smoking & drinking perhaps?

I'm not sure why those decades are held up as some kind of utopia, there may have been less obesity but you were much more likely to die of other things.

Hotzenplotz · 13/02/2021 15:49

@notacooldad

Anthea Turner is pointless What does this mean?
She's a A list nobody who hasn't been vaguely relevant since circa 1995.
Hotzenplotz · 13/02/2021 15:50

*Z list!!

wowier · 13/02/2021 16:00

Somebody mentioned this is not the time to do anything about it, citing homeschooling, lack of gyms etc, people being frazzled. You might not have the time to exercise fiendishly but you could choose beans on your jacket rather than cheddar. I know that is a trite example. I mean that smaller choices add up over time.

I actually said I thought it was the wrong time to do a huge obesity reduction campaign at the same time as a pandemic because access to many things is limited.

i'm exhausted & unmotivated & have often reached for a chips or McDs because there is very little pleasure to be had at the moment & I don't really drink. However I'm tall & can consume a fair bit with little effect & if I can't be bothered to go out in the cold & rain I can get on my x trainer & watch tv.

kennypppppppp · 13/02/2021 16:10

she fat shamed me TWICE (underlined, bold, etc etc) and told me to go to weightwatchers "... it's brilliant. it worked for my sister" when i was at some daft thing and she was there big fat lies. i was on her tidy house tv programme year ago
she is an international plop face as far as i'm concerned.

CrayonInThreeBits · 13/02/2021 16:23

I believe there's far more iatrogenic obesity than is commonly recognised, particularly from medications for mental health.

It used to be that if you were severely depressed, a psychiatrist or possibly a GP would give you an antidepressant — a tricyclic or an MAOI. But they weren't handed out on a whim, because it was recognised that they had side effects and were risky in overdose. You only got them if you were really quite unwell. If you were psychotic, a psychiatrist would prescribe an antipsychotic, one of the old ones that caused movement disorders. Nasty drugs, but considered preferable to insanity.

Now, if you walk into any room full of people you can guarantee that a whopping chunk of them are taking the SSRI antidepressants that were so heavily marketed to doctors in the 1990s, or one of the related SNRIs, or another antidepressant like mirtazapine (which could make dental floss gain weight). Not only that, a good few of the people will be taking one of the modern antipsychotics, for sleep or for anxiety or to augment their antidepressant or for some other reason, and those don't just make you gain weight — sometimes dramatically — they actively change your metabolism to be more diabetic-like. Sometimes permanently. And these things are given out frequently, to people with no psychosis.

A while back I was on a college course for adult returners to education, and as we were all chatting in one of the breaks, it emerged that the majority of the class were on some kind of psychiatric drug, and a good few were taking quetiapine, one of the modern antipsychotic drugs which can cause high blood sugar and weight gain. This wasn't a course aimed at people with mental health problems, this was, on the whole, ordinary working-class men and (mostly) women who for whatever reason had ended up in the same place at the same time. And yes, lots of us were fat.

Egghead68 · 13/02/2021 16:28

@wowier

So where were all the morbidly obese people in the 70s and 80s?

smoking & drinking perhaps?

I'm not sure why those decades are held up as some kind of utopia, there may have been less obesity but you were much more likely to die of other things.

They were there but there were fewer of them as fast food and take aways barely existed.
WorraLiberty · 13/02/2021 16:31

They were there but there were fewer of them as fast food and take aways barely existed

Exactly and if you wanted fast food you had to leave your house to go and get it. Also, 2 car households were not that common so people walked a lot more and portion sizes in general were smaller.

Melange99 · 13/02/2021 16:31

That is scary and shocking @CrayonInThreeBits

notacooldad · 13/02/2021 16:58

Anthea Turner is pointless
What does this mean?

She's a A list nobody who hasn't been vaguely relevant since circa 1995.
That does not make a person "pointless"

Tinacollada · 13/02/2021 17:20

What's your point Worra?

Obviously people had and have choice

Blaming certain groups of the population is so easy. Hope none of you and yo a get it.
Ps I'm thin

Tinacollada · 13/02/2021 17:22

*you and yours

FTMF30 · 13/02/2021 17:38

@wowier

The whole "now is not the time" attitude is utterly tragic. Now is most certainly the time.

What does that look like then? In my neck of the woods people are juggling work & homeschooling, access to gyms & sports is none existent. GP appointments are rare. mental health waiting lists are longer than ever.

How would you do it?

There's plenty that could be done, especially by the government.

I work with CCGs who essentially fund local health services via the NHS. The local health services they fund are usually small businesses/charities and take strain of the core parts of the NHS. An example is depression and/or anxiety. It's well known that early intervention helps. If the Government weren't so tight fisted, there would be more funding for CCGs to commission referral services such as listening services and counselling, which have a hugely positive impact in terms of early intervention in preventing anxiety and depression becoming worse. Instead, people are shoved of with antidepressants which are not long term solutioms and can cause other problems. The Government have money to fund these services but they don't.

Another example is mass information about nutrition. It would be easy for a comms. team to knock up an infograph to be cicrulated widely about how we can get nutritious-rich foods on a budget. Vitamin D has been identified as a great source of battling against CV19, amongst other things. As a country which struggles to get vit D via sunshine, why not circulate mass information about foods which are a great source of vitamin D? Or simple recipes sent out with the food parcels provided for low income families?

Why not arrange a TV show for home excercises, 5 minute excercises, convenient excercises, etc? Or simple information about how many calories can be burned by doing simple things? Mass communication DOES influence behaviour and the probkems you mention are challenges not prevention.

There is ALOT the government could do, or at least communicate anout how we can overcomethese challenges, but there is radio silence in that area. Instead it's wear a mask, don't go out, keep apart. Not long term solutions and very detrimental in many ways.

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wowier · 13/02/2021 17:38

What's your point Worra?

I don't think there is one, just some sad way to feel better about themselves. I think a lot of the judgement comes from self loathing, a lot of people have flaws but fatness is the most visible flaw.

wowier · 13/02/2021 17:42

@FTMF30 so how would you tackle the core issues of education from an early age & the reliance on antidepressants when schools aren't open & one can't see a GP?

I fully agree the gov can & should do more, I'm just not sure they can tackle the real grassroots of obesity during a pandemic & the associated lockdowns.

Tinacollada · 13/02/2021 17:44

Well it's either about "flaws" or statistics....

Perhaps we shouldn't be elderly or BAME either

wowier · 13/02/2021 17:51

I'm not saying being overweight is a flaw but plenty of people see it as one, same for BAME. I don't really understand it tbh.

If you are truly concerned with obesity then campaign for better living standards, less poverty, better education & access.

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