Dr. Jason Fung

That's actually not true at all.

Because again, this is a very simplistic way of looking at it.

Yes, you can decide what you eat, but you can't decide to be not hungry.

You can't decide to burn fewer calories, right?

You can't decide how you metabolize your basal metabolic rate, right?

So it's not their fault at all, because if you're hungry, that's why they're eating, right?

They didn't decide to be hungry.

Nobody asked to be hungry so that they could eat more and gain weight, right?

So that's what led to fat shaming.

And then the backlash against fat shaming, which is that, hey,

Some people are big and it's okay.

The problem is that the medical evidence suggests that weight loss has a huge number of benefits.

Heart health is better, kidney health is better, metabolic health is better.

So this sort of giving up.

So what's happened, of course, is that we came through this five decades of calories, calories, calories, right?

Didn't work, so people couldn't lose weight.

Then there was all this fat shaming around it.

And now the backlash, which is like, well, maybe people are just meant to be this big.

It's like, well,

So it's not actually true, right?