Fat Activists Protest Diet Industry

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004 at 12:26 pm

From CNN.com:

NEW YORK (AP) — Unashamed of their size, fed up with fat jokes, and angry at the national obsession with dieting, overweight activists are mounting a feisty protest movement against what it calls the medical establishment's campaign against obesity.

I guess it is a campaign… The New Physician magazine just ran an article on how today's doctors are not treating obesity as a disease, and are not doing enough to combat it…


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