“U.S. policy has created a food system that excels at producing flour, sugar and oil but struggles to deliver nutrients at anywhere near the same scale.”— Michael Hobbes, highline.huffingtonpost.comTagged: Health, Superstition, Healthcare, food
“A lot of my job is helping people heal from the trauma of interacting with the medical system.”— Ginette Lenham, highline.huffingtonpost.comTagged: Health, Healthcare
“A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people. Habits, no matter your size, are what really matter.”— Michael Hobbes, highline.huffingtonpost.comTagged: Health, Superstition, Healthcare, fat, Working Out
“Obesity, we are told, is a personal failing that strains our health care system, shrinks our GDP and saps our military strength. It is also an excuse to bully fat people in one sentence and then inform them in the next that you are doing it for their own good.”— Michael Hobbes, highline.huffingtonpost.comTagged: Health, fat, Fat-Shaming, Concern trolling
“Every discovery in public health, no matter how significant, must compete with the traditions, assumptions and financial incentives of the society implementing it.”— Michael Hobbes, highline.huffingtonpost.comTagged: Health, Superstition, Healthcare