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Someone posted this question in a Facebook group that I’m in the other day;
“Is obesity a choice?”
There were, as you might expect, comments on both sides of the fence.
It’s a questions I’ve had posed to me before.
And since you asked (or didn’t), here’s my two cents.
It’s a bit of both.
And neither term is really accurate in my humble opinion.
To say it’s a choice negates the potential non optional aspects.
Illness, medication, upbringing, genetics, hormonal variations, hormone resistance levels, gut health, environment and more.
To say it isn’t a choice kinda strips us of power.
Turns us into a victim of these factors.
Potentially affects how likely we are to control the things we can.
Why do we have to pick one or the other?
Another example of dichotomous (black or white) thinking that doesn’t help us.
There’s a prayer that I think’s quite apt.
I’m not religious and you may not be either, but the point is still the same.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Much love,
Jon ‘Words’ Hall and Matt ‘Spoilt for’ Nicholson
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