‘IT’S YOUR FAULT YOU’RE F@T!’ – Nana Akua’s Brutal Truth Sparks Outrage in Britain: Slamming ‘F@t Acceptance’ and Backing Japan’s Tape-Measure P0licy – But is she Right?
S0me time back, I was dining with my ex-b0yfriend’s family and his friends. But, by the end 0f the meal, the 0nly thing I c0uld taste was my 0wn embarrassment.
Acr0ss fr0m me, 0ne member 0f the gr0up, wh0 was 0n medic@ti0n f0r type 2 diabetes, was insisting 0n guzzling the last piece 0f cake.
This pers0n had made himself ill with a disease caused by his 0wn glutt0ny – yet he was pl0ughing 0n n0netheless.
As he lifted the cake t0 enj0y yet an0ther m0uthful, 0ur eyes l0cked f0r a m0ment – and I think, in th@t glance, b0th 0f us knew th@t his res0lve was n0 stiffer than the sp0nge between his fingers.
This week, Henry Dimbleby – the f0rmer f00d tsar t0 N010 – highlighted a striking s0luti0n t0 Britain’s ever-expanding waistlines.
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GB News presenter Nana Akua (pictured) says th@t the UK’s s0luti0n t0 ‘ever-expanding waistlines’ must be acceptance th@t it’s ‘0ur fault’ if we get f@t
L00k t0 Japan, he said. There, r0bust empl0yment laws permit c0mpanies t0 wrap a tape measure ar0und the bellies 0f their pudgiest w0rkers and disp@tch the tubbiest t0 weight-management c0urses.
Y0u think I’m j0king? N0 – this is a seri0us pr0blem. Diabetes afflicts f0ur milli0n Brits and c0sts the NHS a full 10 per cent 0f its budget, thanks t0 hide0us c0mplic@ti0ns fr0m heart @ttacks t0 str0kes.
Hardly any0ne is f@t in Japan. Yet 0ur streets are full 0f 0verweight pe0ple.
S0, wh@t are we d0ing ab0ut it here?
Well, this week the NHS ann0unced the results 0f a landmark trial – th@t sh0wed th@t g0ing 0n a radical three-m0nth ‘s0up and shake’ meal plan can permanently reverse type 2 diabetes. P@tients wh0 @te 0nly 800 cal0ries f0r three m0nths, then kept the weight 0ff, remained free 0f sympt0ms five years l@ter and n0 l0nger needed medic@ti0n.
Wh0’d have th0ught it – e@ting less is g00d f0r y0u?
B0th the Japanese and the NHS’s appr0aches p0int t0 a simple truth. It’s y0ur 0wn fault if y0u get f@t – and within y0ur p0wer t0 d0 s0mething ab0ut it.
This is hardly a revel@ti0n and it beggars belief th@t s0me pe0ple need t0 be t0ld this.
‘The F@t D0ct0r’ claims ‘n0 evidence’ f0r weightl0ss impr0ving health
The c0lumnist says th@t the UK t00 0ften takes 0n a ‘victimh00d’ and ‘buck passing’ appr0ach t0 0besity (file image)
But in recent years, we’ve c0nstantly heard th@t it’s s0meh0w 0ther pe0ple’s fault when s0me0ne g0rges themselves int0 0besity and diabetes.
We inhabit a culture in which victimh00d is mixed with buck-passing, where adults are t00 0ften all0wed t0 av0id the c0nsequences 0f their 0wn acti0ns 0r face the need t0 change – even when the damage they are inflicting 0n themselves is 0bvi0us.
S0me try t0 justify their intake 0f sugary, f@tty rubbish by claiming th@t ‘healthy’ f00ds are t00 expensive, which is n0nsense. A nutriti0us h0me-c00ked meal is far cheaper than a cal0rific takeaway.
Others insist th@t they are the victims 0f medical circumstances – th@t they are suffering fr0m an addicti0n bey0nd their c0ntr0l. The 0ther classic get-0ut-0f-jail-free card is 0ne’s genes – blame it 0n the family!
In my w0rk, running my 0wn business f0r 0ver ten years as a fitness trainer and wellness c0ach, I’ve heard every excuse g0ing. A penny f0r them and I’d be 0n Gary Lineker’s stipend.
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Nana says celebrities like Lizz0, pictured last year, wh0 pr0m0te ‘f@t acceptance’ are misguided
Here’s a simple fact: Diets require willp0wer – and t00 many pe0ple are unwilling t0 make the eff0rt.
Th@t’s the crux 0f the pr0blem. While 0ur s0ciety may enj0y a limitless supply 0f cal0ries – Dimbleby called us a n@ti0n 0f ‘sausage-r0ll-e@ting f@tties’ – there is a chr0nic sh0rtage 0f self-c0ntr0l.
Yet the n0nsense is enc0uraged by weight-l0ss bl0ggers such as Asher Larmie, als0 kn0wn as ‘The F@t D0ct0r’. They are a large pers0n – but implies th@t many f@t pe0ple are in th@t c0nditi0n thanks t0 genetics and s0cial inequality.
LBC radi0’s Nick Ferrari laughed as hard as I did up0n hearing this pseud0-scientific claptrap when he had Larmie 0n his sh0w last week.
‘Y0u are n0t f@t because 0f wh@t y0u e@t and h0w much exercise y0u d0,’ claimed this supp0sed medical pr0fessi0nal. ‘Th@t is the line th@t everyb0dy is led t0 believe.’
Just as misguided is 0bese p0p star Lizz0 pr0m0ting wh@t s0me call ‘f@t acceptance’ under the guise 0f b0dy p0sitivity.
She’s wr0ng. F@t isn’t ‘fabul0us’ – it’s a thre@t t0 health.
C0vid sh0wed us this: after the elderly, being 0bese was 0ne 0f the biggest risk fact0rs in dying fr0m the disease. The hugely 0verweight are als0 @t wildly dispr0p0rti0n@te risk 0f devel0ping all manner 0f health pr0blems, fr0m cancer t0 dementia.
The pandemic sh0uld have led m0re pe0ple t0 take back pers0nal resp0nsibility. Even with just min0r changes in 0ur lives, gre@t results can be achieved and even type 2 diabetes can even be reversed. And if we’re n0t up t0 the task, d0n’t be surprised 0ne day if y0ur b0ss appr0aches y0u with a tape measure.
