“Can you compare obesity with suicide?” from Leslie Goldman’s “The Weighting Game”
Posted April 17, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Alexandra Haller
Section: Her Health, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Her Nutrition, Her News
Hanging oneself with sausage links, exploding your insides with butter, OD’ing on chocolate candies. “Obesity is suicide,” the tiny-print copy at the bottom reads. “But it doesn’t have to end this way. Find out how bariatric surgery can help. The Northern Bariatric Surgery Institute http://www.cutweight.org”
What’s your reaction to these images? Is it ethically right to compare obesity to suicide, a horrific and unimaginable experience for the friends and family left behind? Or can the creator (I believe these were some sort of student project) of the ads be forgiven because he’s simply doing his job, trying to sell something - in this case, bariatric surgery - even if the overall message being delivered is, “If you’re overweight, you’re as bad as a suicide bomber and should have your stomach reduced to a tiny little pouch”?
Read the rest of this entry and see more pictures from this ad campaign at Leslie’s blog, The Weighting Game.
Tags: ad campaign, bariatric surgery, dying, fitness, goldman, obesity, slow death, suicide, the weighting game
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