Over time, it becomes harder and harder, and finally impossible for some to lose weight at all. Most people do not know that far more women have died from weight loss surgery than from Toxic Shock Syndrome. And yet, these body mutilations are looked upon with favor from a society that doesn't tolerate human size diversity. The World Health Organization and the US Department of Health agreed in 1992 that dieting and weight loss surgery can be dangerous to human health. To add insult to injury, the medical profession blames fat adults when their ill advised recommendations don't work.
All people desire high quality, compassionate medical care.
Fat women especially want health care providers to look beyond weight and see the patient. It is also important to realize that some negative health consequences attributed to obesity may in fact be the result of intense and repeated weight loss episodes. Devastating Impact on Girls Perhaps most at risk are children. Young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or of losing their parents. Dieting has been associated with an 8-fold increase in the probability of developing an eating disorder and in the United States, over 150,000 women die of anorexia each year.