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what we can test. so what's the endo, that's the city 15 people have been injured and one killed by ukrainian selling our t corresponded roman customer of brings us this report from the grounds were now and one of the most dangerous boards of uh, doing this is that keeps keep district and according to officials, the one rock is from a multiple launch rockets system, fired by ukraine, landed in this purity civilian neighborhood. right now we're working with experts tried to determine what type of weapon it was a very successful guess for the past 24 hours. the dentist joined car donation control center register 26 settings during which the big trucks keep keeps key, clear, sky and coopers escape districts have done a city or hit the showing was carried out with 155 and 152 millimeter artillery as well as rocket launchers separately, and the keys to district an attack by grad record. the launch was,
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was recorded living blocks of residential floods damaged. we also know 16 casualties of which one person was killed and 15 others one day. officials are saying that this was a grad rocket from a multiple launch rockets system. finally by you create in this neighborhood while working here, we can hear the sounds of artillery fire. the surprising thing is the people over there. they're so used to constant showing that they're not even printing when they hear sounds of explosions. right now, we'll try and talk to them, try and find out what happened here, which is a ocean, you're going to be honest. i have no reaction to all of this anymore. it's bad. nothing phase. this me something goes by and that's it. we go back to sleep. there's no way out. so you get to use the, it's, and the kids go on leaving the allies the same way. one person was killed and 16 civilians were wounded as the result of ukraine and our 2 effects here in the net.
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now this happened over the last 24 hours. only 2 of the neighbors doors flew up their hinges. my door flew out. there was a loud explosion light in 2015. we started calling neighbors to find out what happened. we went outside and the ambulance was already on its way to the sun. my son called me yesterday. he said he was case in the showing. he wasn't seriously injured, it only nicked his arm. he was so shocked he didn't even realize how much retinal levels then the ambulance came to take him to the hospital. they found shrapnel in his head as well. they haven't removed to pieces yet, but they will continue at the moment. shedding of the city of the nets continues ukrainian nationalists are using various types of weapons, including nato caliber. that's 155 millimeter howitzers. and they're also using a soviet, made multiple launched rockets systems, cold grad at the moment she had in continues and the number of victims among civilians may still growth from one culture emergency. then that's good public or
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just stay with r t international up next on the cost of everything. the cost of obesity by the let's dive into a conversation that's bound to raised some eyebrows and sparks. i'm heated discussions. today we're talking about the world of obesity, where opinions are as varied as a scales on which we measure it. i'm christy, i'm, you're watching the cost of everything. so is obesity an epidemic? and whereas a line between body positivity and just promoting a fat, unhealthy lifestyle. and while we all liked to be inclusive, what does inclusiveness mean for obese people?
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let's face it. our society stands on obesity is divided. on one hand, we have the body positively movement, which champions self acceptance and challenges the norms of beauty. but on the other hand, we can't ignore the harsh reality of health risks associated with obesity. are we sugar coating a serious problem or are we promoting self love and inclusivity? now liz has been a body positively advocate that has taken the music world by storm. but is she empowering individuals to embrace their bodies? or is she glamorize in obesity? i mean, it's kind of like a walk, a heart attack, waiting to happen. so sit tight and let stir the pot. it's time to confront the controversies surrounding obesity and listen to some cold hard facts. joining me now is lionel radio host and commentator. welcome something, welcome and thank you so much for being here with us. thank you. so now let's get to the facts, fax, number one. obesity is detrimental to health. increasing the risk of stroke,
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heart attacks, diabetes, depression, and higher cost or rate diabetes in particular effects $21000000.00 americans back number to obesity is expensive. obese people have higher insurance premiums for medicare, higher gasoline use, higher disability punches insurance. and sometimes they even have to purchase extra states on flights. and finally, fact number 3, the us ranks number one in terms of obese adults within the developed countries at 36.5 percent. now let's open up this up. how is this going forward for us as a society if we continue to promote obesity? okay, 1st of all, obesity and more and bid obesity or medical terms that can be defined as either having a particular b, m, i a body mass index or some other type of more clinical definition over weight. fact,
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whatever. those are more societal ways of describing somebody's appearance. this is one of the few diseases that has a kind of of, of, of a fashion aspect. nobody jokes about diabetes or heart murmurs. this is different. the bottom line is simply this. we have to ask ourselves if you want to be obese, or if you cannot help to be whatever it is. that's fine. here's my question. do i have to pay for you? are you telling me? is anybody telling me that i cannot stop being obese? i cannot stop being a drug addict. i cannot stop. this is the way i am either as far as lives. oh goes . she's at least of liberty. am i? yeah. you're not going to be hearing much from liz. oh, for a number of reasons. but let me ask this question, let's say i have a medical condition why i have to lay flat. i'm gonna have to have 3 service dogs. i go to jet blue and i'm say i want the whole row and my service dogs. and i want you to pay for because i never ask for this. what do you think should be their
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reaction? so that's a bit extreme. that is a bit extreme, but that is actually where the entire thing is going. everybody keeps on making higher and higher demands in order to accommodate for things that are their own individual problems or ask in society to compensate for it. but they're also say i can help this. now if, if i'm 7 feet 3, and i going to jump towards that, i can't settle this. i want a new plane. remember years ago when you would go to, well, then use the park to have a little sign is if you're not this tall, you can go on the take on the right one, if there was a r silhouette and i don't mean to be crew. but if you cannot fit in this, you can fly on this. there's that, there's that device that nobody ever uses. if your overhead bag doesn't fit in here, you can guess how is it? we're talking about safety. we're talking about a plane. we're not talking about being cosmetically rude by pointing figures. i'm on a plane where weight is critical. as you mean you tell me,
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and by the way it find the poor guy in the middle. i pay my ticket to and i've got no pets. yes. so what about my wines? and it's not about hiroshima i tense band that shaming nobody show me. nobody cares about other people's weight unless it, it faxed them. exactly. so, and now let's not even talk about planes. let's talk about something like even simpler. there's always an ongoing battle between body positivity and fat show me and there was a viral moment when this influencer was actually denied service at a horseback riding ranch for being too fat to ride a horse. she then went on a tirade on social media and that branch that shamed her. and as a result, that unfortunate ranch which was a very small business with actually flooded with hate messages shaming their electric behavior. so now how is that shaming or what the rest of simply protecting their assets, protecting their horses from be overburdened, that's not even safety,
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the safety of the horse, not even worse, worst pita. i mean, i'm sure he's been here. you, you've, you've got to think about this, but say, but this is part of this gets a frantic world we live and we also are having this values all of a sudden in, we'll go over, you know, same thing. everybody wants to buy this, wait a minute. you just told me that being overweight was cool. yeah. there's also whole body posit, tell you why you want to change your body, the size of where money because and by the way, they're always going to be changing this. and they're saying that it helps against cardiac problems. going to make money. we live in this court, look i, i hope i don't offend anybody, but we will have to be offended where the united states of the offended if there's they go through the paper. if there's something that you can say, if there's somebody that i have some something, anything where i can claim some, some victim status, i feel included victim narrative. everybody wants to be included in the victim narrative. i want to be included for this that and whatever you're not inclusive, if you don't, if you don't serve may be some reserve me, i want to ride
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a horse. so if you don't serve me, whatever happens of businesses and the right to the right to deny service, every single business has the right to deny service. so what happened to that? but unfortunately for souls from social media, businesses are not allowed to do that because in order to do that, they are either discriminatory. they're discriminatory against obese people or people of color or whatever. thank people can claim a category and claim to be discriminated against. if a business refuses to start them and there's no, there's no consideration for the right of others. let's assume i had a neurological problem where i scream and uncontrollably from time to time, randomly. now i'm having a hard time getting a ticket to a broadway musical or to a golf tournament, wherever. when he's quiet, do i am i going to go on because of this thing to this, this device that gives me instant victim status and stage worthiness? am i going to go on to say, how dare you, you must accommodate my particular affliction. and the thing is, no, we're not,
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at least i'm not. i don't think you are either. we're not advocating mocking people because of weight. but when anybody situation affects somebody else's, if i have a problem in maintaining sobriety, i should not be allowed to drive a bus. i should not. there are certain things that by the 5, by virtue of my weight cannot act as a life guard is not fat. jamie, for you to say you are not fit, simply equipped to perhaps put other people's lives in peril. where is the ballot? exactly. there is no balance any more. and especially to day in a world where pop culture reign supreme. let's take a look at the influence. some of the stars have over on obesity, from movies to advertising. we're actually being bombarded by messages that glamorize is unhealthy of lifestyle. so are we, we're merely reflecting societal norms now. oh yeah, yes. and also it was, is part again of this gets in front of attitude. you know, we, we, we live in a world that supposedly care so much about natural and light and going shape and,
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and wearing foot beds and yoga math. and yet, at the same time, we have a number of other people who and let's face it. what, what we really don't want to say is this? yes, there are some people that by virtue of the hormonal siroy door dairy situation as they can help it. yes, but there are other people who don't want to accept the fat fat that was a ponder. so don't accept the fat that should be the name of this. but there are some people who don't accept the fact that they are fat because they don't want to be otherwise. and by the way, i think i could speak when i was a little kid i was born and i think with the body weight of a 38 year old male, i had 36 husky pants in the 1st grade. 36 wasn't bad enough to put an age on this side so i don't understand it. and i know people move for me and it wasn't fun. but something there was a one particular point is that somebody has to give, so my heart goes out. yes, i understand it, but,
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but mocking somebody is one thing to be mean, but when it affects the ability of somebody to enjoy that accommodation, the seat or whatever, or i never at all, i'm saying that the world you must accommodate me and take these numbers off these pants, how yeah. how are you? shame me with my waste. i want to call this 28. the people would laugh at me in the day today. it would make complete sense. it would make complete sense because that's being called accepted. that's all the positivity you're based support of towards it. and now a lot of stars have even come out to support this body positively message. and on one hand that is a great thing. then as a kid, you're not being bullied. that's a good thing. and you have celebrities like even rhianna opening up about her struggles with weight. kylie dunner about her struggles losing weight after her pregnancy and giving birth. so i think that message is great. to normalize that you can be not stick sense to be fat or overweight. that's fine, because we all struggle with weight sometimes,
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and it's important to love your body. but where, when is it, when it becomes too much when you have people like live? so who claims that she promotes body positivity. do you think that she's just hiding behind it? because she is obese and is more so of her make to gain public acceptance, social media clout. well, when, when she was relevant, perhaps that was true, maybe that was it. i mean, it's a great way to do this, and i want to throw one more into this. and i hope this has about anybody. god knows that people who, who suffer from addiction and, and sobriety issues recently. matthew perry, it's sad and i'm so tired of being lecture people say, let me tell you something. this is my problem as i can't stop is on the sickness. so that's the way the bed. why are you yelling at me about this? i understand that sometimes there's one thing there's, there's something about people who say, i want you to understand my particular place, but it's another one. this is, this is my thing and i own it and you better except it don't asking me questions.
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what happened to somebody who was born, who happens to be of normal way, does not have any kind of an addiction or anything that is visibly the neurologically, psychiatric, really or physically wrong with a you're. 7 you're out of luck. the my are already with no problem. is that all the thank you so much line on please stick around cuz we'll be right back with you. so when we come back, we'll be joined by doctor and john to browse sky to look further into this issue. so you're not going to want to miss this the
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welcome back. joining me now to discuss is dr. john to browse sky of the washington pain center. thank you so much for being here with us to. thanks so much for having me. yes. so now let's get into it. it's about finding the right balance as we spoke about earlier, between promoting self acceptance and recognizing the health risk associated with obesity. so from your stands, what is the right approach, and can we really have it all? yes, of course we can have it all. we 1st have to keep people accountable. i think we always thinking about this with you for segment. in terms of role models,
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we always have role models, whether it's role models in terms of been elected education, maybe moral background or maybe physicality. and you say, i want to be like that person. we have never said now this except the way that i am, i'm just to see student not going to work hard. it just the way i am and i'll just let it be. we never do that as human beings, but the point is, is that we need to embrace and help people out where we can medically cuz you're exactly right. i mean, this cost america just last year, similar between a $150.00 and $200000000000.00. so this is a real cost, but more port, it is a personal cost each individual page. and i see in a pain perspective draw overweight, they've got too much weight on their back too much weight on their knees. and it's sort of a vicious cycle. well, if i exercise wouldn't hurt, well if it, if it hurts i can exercise. so it's a vicious cycle, but with physicians can do something about it. support people, but move them in a direction. i not just have this level of acceptance. absolutely. and what about businesses who are forced to kind of accept them because we include them?
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this is great, but is there a limit on which companies are pressure to include people, especially in the social media age where by not accommodating someone, you could end up getting yelp and twitter hate and basically shut down your small business? yeah, i mean that, that is certainly true, but i think we're now starting to see a backlash or maybe the pendulum moving forward, the other direction. what about the community? what about the business step versus this, you know, sync or sync individual? yes we, you know, individuals are very important, but there also is a community at large that we also need to take care of. if you look at the us military, they can't fit their bill is because these people are not fit to serve in our country's defense. and we just and what we thought we'd lower the bar. well, if you can't run a mile, how about a half a mile? this does not really help the country in terms of defense as pastor, and this goes with any sort of business. absolutely. so how and where do we draw the line between obesity and health awareness and faction?
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me. okay. so i, it was very funny with your 1st guess. he was chevy as a child. so as i hated huskies, i got it. well, you know what, that is a heck of motivate or, you know, i, there was some shape. that's good. you're on the back of your mind. you know, you're doing something wrong. that's, that's your gym, the cricket that you're conscious think i need to be moving in a different direction. this is good. and so it shouldn't be like, well, i'm going to hurt myself or anything like that. we would never do that with just like we would always tell the person who's believed make our anorexic. this is not healthy behavior either. we don't embrace them and say, you know what, you need to go on that diet. that's okay. we don't do that. so it's the exact opposite of the sat is the incredibly, you know, a category individual. so again, we reach out this people, you need medical treatment just like the older or more abuse person with the medical treatment equally. both the same problems, different sides of the same coin. absolutely, and i think that that is a great mindset to have for both like you in line all but in today's world,
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how do we tackle problems of obesity when it seems like most people are too afraid to even talk about it. and instead, they just will continue to argue with you, arguing that it's an anti body positivity. i think we just need to change the dynamic. we're not tube, you know, if you want to live this way, that's fine. but you know, medically this is not healthy for you. we know as a community, you're not really being the best version of yourself. that's and again, it's just an honest conversation. and slowly, just to just again, this is similar to addiction. patients that have eating disorders have very similar components with addiction or disorders, right? alcoholism or opiates, this is all, it's all the same common pathway. and a lot of the medications that we use for o for addiction management is also used for, you know, wait for the production or to help people with waiting. so i, i think we need to just start, like you're doing here with the media, have that conversation. i'm afraid to bring it up. you don't want to hurt this a r t. i think it's a good place to start. this is how to move the ball forward because i think we can
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move it, and i think you're starting to see people get away from us individually and more poorly. again, i love this patient. i want the best for you. this is not the best version of yourself. let's talk about that. absolutely. and this coming from medical profession, what do you think is causing this obesity epidemic in the 1st place? is it hmo? is it lifestyle? is it something else? because it seems like an america, we have a very big problem. whereas in other developed country, it's the though the city rate is actually much lower. that's right. i mean, tip can, i can answer all the above. absolutely. i mean, your exact, obviously, this is where this is a, you know, in most developed in most countries where you have the poor and impoverished, they're the most malnourished. and you know, they're very thin and things like that and or throughout the planet, are poor, are over nourished, you know, in terms of obesity and things like that. so again, we need to again, just always education in terms of let's make sure you understand what the right food is and again, never to insult anyone's intelligent people do know that,
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but we need to be supported, whether it's a public service announcements or things like that. let's eat healthy both for you and for your children, because it actually starts at the home if the mother or father is used to, you know, getting fried chicken out, a lot of take out. well, the son a daughter is going to work how to do that. so always starts at home. and the other thing is, is that, you know, we've always in america, it's a land of the big, you know, super size be things like that. so big dogs are easy to, there's so many calories that you could consume so quickly, you know, for the whole day. and one hamburger that, that, you know, use most of 1500 calorie died. it's about a 1000 calories and maybe some fries at 1500, right? they're just on one meal. so again, looking at your di, what we're doing then again, there's always the exercise during cold. it was the worst things we close the gym. so what do we keep up and? well you don't want to take up, wrap up, but just sydney, i got my dad flux, i got my food, i'm good, i got my sweatpants. i need to worry about adult size cuz i guess what, pants. this is all been terrible for the past 2 years. now we're starting to come
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out of our coma and sort of look at what did we really do and, and move the ball forward. so yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's kind of diet exercise, maybe some medication manager. but i agree with you is that you know, this not the pfizer model for the elders a pill, and that's what we like to do in america. is there a pool for that? no, it's really the simple things eat less walk more so all unfortunately. now we've got a shot instead of pills that we do have all of them back. no caller id or medications, right? exactly. now, airlines, these we all, hey flying these days because of the cramp fees. but now these employers are, as they have come out and they demanded that they receive special treatment, they want a complimentary 2nd seed wider aisles due to the sizes demanding that airlines be more inclusive towards all people of shit differentiates and sizes. so this an act of empowerment or entitlements? it sounds like an active extortion. you know, we do it my way or, or our, our, our, i'm out. so i mean, what i would say is like, if you think you need a 2nd c,
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that's find the airline industry loss, that ability to purchase it, you have to purchase that seat. i would just simply do that. and again, let the, let the market you know of, you know, take care of itself. if there's a united wants to charge proceeds fine. american while you're extra large, we will accommodate you. they'll let the free market take a place. but clearly changing files. there's much that is not possible just for one or 2 individuals. maybe there might be a market there for that. i don't believe so. absolutely. well, thank you so much for being here with us. dr. jeroski. washington green center. great. now let's get back to it. live i'll left us to the hospice influence or bit a little bit more. this particular influencer, jaylen cheney is a travel influencer. and she started calling for the f a 2 and actually mandate that all airlines have a comprehensive customer of sized policies that would prioritize as the comfort and wellbeing of all passengers quote. and examples of her demand site, a bigger toilet seat belt, extend that is a complementary 2nd, sweetwater aisles,
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etc. and supporters, they have pointed out that airlines have been gas lighting plus sized passengers into thinking it's their own fault and it's sizes. so it seems like these days apparently we can make anything or anybody a protected class, you just choose a group and then add an east to the end of it and you make yourself a victim. you're killing me with this i. i think it wouldn't be an influence or next one of the things and i and i, i sound like one of these, these old prophets when i was a kid. but that somehow a while back it started with a d. s. i'm a series with a diagnostic statistical manual that came up with every name for emily particular behavioral court from legitimate, serious to psychosis, to obstructionist opposition, or whatever. we love to define everything in terms of something that if we give it
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a name, we absolve you from any responsibility you ab, negate, any responsibility you disconnect because it has a name. don't you understand the reason why you have these euro sizes? oh, you're talking, you don't want my, my service dog licking your legged adults, you're a specie. yes, i heard is it, we, we are losing our minds. and what's happening is, is because of it's not so much and i wouldn't play and social media when it's just weird. screen mob mentality ever seen birds flies called the murmur, ration were these, these, these wonderful starlings fly actual we are the dates. and there are these people who are void vacant, vapid, vacuum was they have no sense of self. and they latch onto this, and it's so easy, it's fun to be a victim to explain everything away. is anybody responsible for anything? i'm a criminal lawyer by trade and police all the time,
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argue that the insanity defense made no sense because everybody should take accounts, even though people were psychotic. i didn't know where they were. so there's always been kind of an inherent little loophole. well, but there's always been just kind of a resistance to somebody trying to, to, to push off responsibility to blame something, to, to blame a particular situation. and that's where we are right now. and the, the best part about it is, the more people talk about this insanity to me, it's the more it hurts. i think people who are obese, it actually hurts the cause by exposing the insanity of these defenses. absolutely . and rather than recognizing that you yourself are the pro bumps you choose to blame everyone else and the society of the environment. everyone is against you. yeah. so that's not guess likely that's nobody dazzling any, but that's actually, you guess letting yourself into believing that. so people should not have to bend over backwards full or whatever just to make you comfortable, especially when it's not even discriminatory. like seats are a standard size,
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it's not that the airlines are being malicious and their engineering roller coasters are discriminating against people. a certain height, as you mentioned earlier, they make it for safety reasons for engineering purposes. and right now there's a setting precedent for special treatment, which in like in some cases might not at all be practical in the long run. absolutely, and in fact, there are some things by virtue of size and limitations that are just a part of life that we as citizens except by the privilege of living here. that's the way it goes. absolutely, well, thank you so much for being here with us. little it was a pleasure. thank you. now, as we draw the curtain on our candid conversation about obesity, it is evidence that from this top to pick is far from black and white. and we live in a world where fat shaming clashes with body positivity. and there is a thin line between health and self acceptance. so this debate transcends a simple yes or no. it is a very complex interplay of values, health,
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