The director of the Yale Obesity Research Centre, Dr Ania M. Jastreboff, has come out to speak about Oprah Winfrey’s 50-year struggle with being overweight. He recently revealed that the legendary TV host shared insights into her painful battle with obesity in her new book titled “Enough: Your Health, Your Weight and What It’s Like to Be Free.”
According to him, Oprah is giving people with obesity a voice with her latest work after enduring a huge amount of shame and blame over the years.
Jastreboff added that Oprah took all of the stones thrown at her and turned them into a gift for people who are still going through tormentful name-calling.
His words, “She is giving people with obesity a voice. The amount of shame and blame that she has faced her entire life is unimaginable. But she took that and she turned it into a gift for patients with obesity. She is communicating that obesity is a disease with clear underlying biology. We do not blame people for having diabetes or high blood pressure. Obesity is no different. It is a treatable chronic disease.
Our biology is incredible… but it evolved in an environment of scarcity. Our bodies figured out eons ago we had to store energy, and the most efficient way to store that is as fat. So fat is a very good thing for survival.
There are 200 medications for high blood pressure. We’d like to give our patients with obesity that choice.
And that’s what we want. We want a toolbox of treatment options for our patients as we have for any other chronic disease.”
WOW.
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