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Biotech / Medical : The Fraud of Biological Psychiatry
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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (119)8/11/2000 12:19:48 PM
From: Smart_Asset  Read Replies (2) of 444
 
If fat people die quicker and suffer more than optimal weight people, and suffer more diseases and maladies due to their weight, should someone not "medicalize" the issue of obesity?

Certainly "someone" should medicalize the issue of obesity. The medical profession should do that with the underlying premise that fat is unhealthy. What many object to is that the pharmaceutical industry medicalizes health issues with the underlying premise that dollars can be made from magic pills.

Note that the quote is from the pharmaceutical industry and not the medical profession per se.

``Part of our challenge moving forward with Xenical is to 'medicalize' weight management to physicians,'' Terence Hurley, a Roche spokesman, said.

Is that the tail wagging the original mad dog?
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