Auntie Charo's Soapbox

"As usual my dear (and I guess expected), you miss my point entirely. I am not saying that being obese or diabetic is a healthy lifestyle.... DUH!! It's not! It is your approach to the problem I have issues with. First off, I am not obese, but I do have obese patients. You of course automatically claimed I must be one of those fat people because I got insulted. I got insulted because unlike you, I care about these individuals. Believe me, I don't have to google a thing to know that's a healthy BMI, what's a healthy lifestyle, nor a healthy diet.

Truth is truth, but how one says it and explains it to those you care for, patients and family alike, is what makes it effective. And after years of medical training, years of being raised amongst overwiehgt relatives I can tell you that insulting people is not the way to go.

And that was the gist of my previous posting. You went off and claimed that your insults have a noble cause, perhaps making people change their lifestyle from the negative attitude you're espousing. And that's just plain nonsense. Curing obesity is a concentrated and coordinated team effort focused around family, medical providers, and close friends. And in nowhere in that plan of care are there insults (and you need to stop downplaying that you were merely "pointing out" something. Telling people that they'll need "forklifts" to carry their dead bodies is simply an insult).

Solving Guam's obesity epidemic is going to take a long battle of educating and caring for our people. It's going to be a hard fought process and it may take a few deaths of young adults for children to see that something in their lives need to be changed. Some doctors and educators are doing our part to prevent this from happeneing.... but I can at least tell you this, you are not part of the solution by insulting every fat person you see on the PDN... no matter how many bags of trail mix or miles of hiking you can accomplish.

Be more like Christ.... lead by example to show others what a happy lihe you live because you ARE healthy. That's a humble approach. Anonymous insults from an internet blog is not."

Doctor, I hope your way works. In the end, we both want the same results...healthy families and healthy friends.