The co-founder, Magdalena Pyñeiro, warns that “without self-esteem it is very difficult to take care of yourself” and calls for comprehensive health care
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The co-founder of the digital platform Stop Gordofobia, Magdalena Piñeyro, has charged this Wednesday against the “humiliation” that fat people receive and has demanded more attention and care to promote “comprehensive health” than resorting to diets that always end with an increase of weight.
“What is the use of trying to lose weight if I want to kill myself? There are fat people who want to commit suicide, it happened to me in 2016, I wanted to kill myself, what is the use of trying to lose weight if I don’t want to live?” appearance in the Parliament of the Canary Islands before the Health Commission.
Piñeyra has asked the deputies to “listen with their hearts, not with their ears” to find out about the “discrimination” suffered by many people for being “fat”, with ridicule, bullying or even insults when they walk through shut it up
He has indicated that “you cannot be in good health” when you suffer this discrimination, which is often amplified through social networks and the media, especially when a fat person tries to play sports.
He has called for more medical training to care for fat people because the patient is always told that “losing weight is the solution” and “does not delve into” pathologies. “They send you home on a diet and there have been deaths from medical negligence,” she added.
He has also lamented the lack of specific furniture for fat people or that in some cases they have to go to a zoo to do certain tests.
Piñeyra has insisted that “health is not only about weight”, it also affects the social and mental part, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) itself, but all the campaigns focus on losing weight.
He has given as an example of the obsession to lose weight the consumption of Ozempic, a drug recommended for people with diabetes and that is generating shortage problems because it facilitates weight loss although it adds many secondary problems that affect health.
UNEMPLOYMENT, MARGINALIZATION, DEPRESSION AND ISOLATION
He has also warned that “fat” generates more unemployment, marginalization, social exclusion, anxiety, depression and isolation and has warned that diets are a risk factor “for falling” in eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
“We have the feeling that we don’t matter to anyone”, he indicated, stressing that we must “broaden our gaze” and address obesity from a “comprehensive” point of view because there are many people who want to lose weight “and cannot”. and others who “eat terrible and do not gain weight but also have high blood pressure or diabetes.”
Piñeyra, who has drawn the applause of the deputies, has had an impact on promoting healthy habits “and ending the overbearing message” of losing weight because a society “obsessed with being thin” also “ends up getting sick.”
Thus, he has pointed out that fat people must be “cared for”, foster their self-esteem and have leisure time or play sports since “crossing a gym being a fat person is very difficult”. “Without self-esteem it is very difficult to take care of yourself,” she has commented.
He concluded by saying that “we have to rethink everything”, update the studies, including the calculation of the Body Mass Index, invented by a mathematician. “It is more important not to suffer discrimination than to lose weight,” he pointed out.
