The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The United States spends more money   per capita   on healthcare than any other country on Earth –   almost twice as much as Germany and triple Japan . To emphasize, this is the average spending on an individual level, so it’s triple the spending of Japan per person. Source:  Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker And what do Americans get for all that spending? The US is  the fattest  and the sickest in terms of chronic disease rates in the world. Per  Statista , “the CDC estimates that six in ten adults in the United States currently live with a chronic disease such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.” You probably know someone personally – in all likelihood, multiple people – who suffers from a chronic health condition. Much of that disease burden is due to obesity. “Adult obesity rates have more than doubled since the 1980s — in the U.S. today, obesity affects over 42% of adults and 18% of youth. Obesity and its related complications are majo...

Star Of Body-Positivity Show Dead From Heart Failure At Age 37 The body positivity movement, at least in the case of women, has  been highly promoted  by every area of the entertainment media and among social justice activists based on a singular claim:   You can be healthy at any size  (HAES).   The claim has  inspired numerous efforts to normalize obesity in American society  as not only socially acceptable but also medically acceptable.  While political activism in science is nothing new and has been present in everything from climate change rhetoric to pandemic response, fat positivity disinformation in scientific observation is perhaps the most egregious and widespread.   It attempts to ignore or dismiss decades of studies on the negative effects of obesity  and asserts that being grossly overweight has minimal or no health consequences.   This argument is often debunked by the very people that tend to promote it and ...