Excerpts from: Doctors Viewing Ob*sity as a Disease Is Damaging, Says Fat Activist

by Hatty Willmoth, Newsweek Food & Nutrition Reporter

“[As fat liberationists] our argument is that classifying all fat bodies as inherently diseased, regardless of other aspects of our health profile, actually has more to do with social bias and capitalism than it has to do with medicine and science.”

“I'm sure there's someone out there who believes that pharmaceutical company executives' ultimate goal is to make people healthy. I am not one of those people. How much of what we believe about ob*sity is funded by people who develop drugs to treat ob*sity?”

— Tigress Osborn, Executive Director of NAAFA