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In this video, I am talking about a doctor who says it is okay to be fat. I have my thoughts but I was surprised to find out that they align a lot with her's. Maybe you all might disagree, watch the video and find out.

I explained that being fat puts you at risk of heart disease especially if you are morbidly obese .

Many patients who come to the hospital are looking to lose weight as opposed to gaining weight.

I also explained that it is not my place to give patient advice that the patient does not want because this can be a cause of stress

If you are overweight I think it is my duty to inform you about it seeing that you are the relevant authority that is in charge of your life, so you can make an informed decisions.

It is okay to be fat probably. She would say that it is okay to consume all the monosaturated fat that you can too... This whole fat acceptance thing might not be as bad as we think it is. At least all the information she put out here I tend to agree with.

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I think sneako would disagree with everything I have said in this video but, you know what, I don't care. He isn't even a healthcare worker so what would he know? I would like to ask him though, "sneako! is it okay to be fat?"

Is there any benefit to being fat/overweight really? I want to read more about that and get back to us with a video on that.

References

• https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/weight-a-silent-heart-risk
• https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/being-overweight-or-obese-is-linked-with-heart-disease-even-without-other-metabolic-risk-factors/
• https://www.verywellmind.com/whats-behind-different-types-of-unsolicited-advice-3144961
• https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/09/05/what-physicians-get-wrong-about-the-risks-of-being-overweight/

Media

• https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM6sS1hpA/

Video Transcript

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it is okay to be fat

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it's not okay

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it's necessary

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it's okay to be fat

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this video has been moving around my for you page

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like for a while

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and I've been trying my best to ignore it

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but I'm going to react to it

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hello everyone

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my name is Doctor Love it

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I'm from Informed Decision here

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I am medical doctor in Nigeria

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and from time to time

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patients come to see me who are overweight

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and they would like solutions to their problems

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and I have to give advice

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I have to talk to them after

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let them know what the right thing to do is

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so I'm going to be reacting to this video

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as it goes on in real time

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I'm going to be reacting to it

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and I'll let you know my opinions

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as the video plays on

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so I'm going to press play

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I'm listening to it on my headphones

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and I'll be listening to it and I'll be

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projecting it on the screen

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and you know

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regular react and stuff

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alright

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I totally agree

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it is okay to be fat

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we don't say that enough

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but it needs to be normalized

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if you are fat

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immediate solving

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it is not an emergency

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you don't have to drop everything

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okay so what she says is that it is okay to be fat

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she's now saying that um

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it doesn't require

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emergency attention

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it doesn't require immediate attention

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which is true

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if you are someone who is obese

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or someone who is overweight

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somebody who is fat

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it doesn't necessarily mean that you need you know

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to receive normal saline for your post rate or you know

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be sent into the I C

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U to have a neckline set on you immediately

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and all of that but yeah

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that's that is a real thing

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that is a real thing

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but I usually I usually

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like to think of it this way that if

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if you are not

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if you are seeing a patient that is obese

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seeing a person who is fat

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and then you let them go

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it's equivalent to you seeing a problem

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that somebody did not come complaining of

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and you let the patient just go simply because um

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it's something you're not comfortable

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with talking about I guess

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or maybe you

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don't think the person will be ready to talk about it

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as as at that time

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I think there are ways to go about telling people that

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okay this is something that you found

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it's not what they complained of

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but this is something you found

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incidentally

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like if somebody comes with a high poor street

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like it's it's over 1:20 or maybe 1:50

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and the person came complaining of cough

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this is something that I've seen

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somebody coming complaining of cough

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but the person has a high pulse with losing weight

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there's a neck swelling on the person's neck

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but the person

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the person's main issue is the cough

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that started last week meanwhile

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the person is breathless has a neck mass

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high pole street

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you're thinking about something

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affecting the patient's thyroid and

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the person is complaining about cough

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so do you treat a virus which attracts infection

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at this point

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or do you start dealing with the fact that as in

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even a cough might even be related to

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the fact that

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the person has a neck mass

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pressing on the person's neck but anyway

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let's continue with what she's saying

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so it's actually not an emergency at the time

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and even while the person is having a high pause rate

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at the time

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it's technically

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is technically not an emergency

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the person is not going to die that day

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because of the hyperspace

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the person is not going to die that day because of

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the um the the vital science of abnormal

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what is what notion

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immediate solving

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you don't have to drop everything

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in the pursuit of being not fat

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Aaron said this other thing in a different video

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that I totally agree with as well

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oh

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oh okay okay

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so now she says it is okay not to be healthy

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and I've watched this video before I

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I know where she's going to work

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I just want to address that fact

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it's okay not to be healthy and I

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it's okay if you are not healthy

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my place as a doctor is to make sure that

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I help you in whatever way I find you

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if you are unhealthy

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if you are healthy

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I I it is also my place to to

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would I say inspire

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that's not that

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I'm not supposed to be out here trying to

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inspire you to be healthy

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but I'm supposed to tell you

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educate you to the best of my ability and I

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I'm only recently finding out that

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advice and education

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is only supposed to be given when the patient request

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whether the patient

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says that this is something they want

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some people don't want to receive advice

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at some point like me

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they don't want to hear you yap about how they should

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exercise 150 minutes every week

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or how they should drink three litres of water

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so people don't want to hear a lot of that

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so you want to

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really be sure that this patient wants advice

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so I think it's okay not to be healthy

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I understand where she's coming from

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I get that I I

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I understand that um

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yeah it's okay not

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to be healthy

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to be unhealthy

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it's okay to be unhealthy it's it's

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it's a dicey one

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I said Doctor I I

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I don't want my patient to be unhealthy

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unless maybe I want some more patients to be coming

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and my workload to be increasing

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in Nigeria we have a high walk load

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like the number of patients are coming everyday

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the doctor the doctor to patient to issue is crazy

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and if you're walking in a very busy hospital

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you feel it

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I don't want it's

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it's not okay for me

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it's not okay for me I

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I don't want you to be unhealthy

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I want you to be well

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I want you to be a functional member of society

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I want you away from the hospital as much as possible

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and I want to deal with the more serious cases

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the more serious people that like

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cases that need my attention

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I don't want um

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more and more minor cases that could be avoided by

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lifestyle modifications and behavioral changes

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so is it okay to be unhealthy

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it's okay for the patient to be unhealthy

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it's okay for the patient to not seek health education

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all that is fine but

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as a doctor

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it's not something I would see

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I I don't know

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I it doesn't

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it just doesn't sit well with me

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but let's listen to what other things she has to say I

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I think she later made um

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more sense about what she was

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trying to say in this video so let's let's hear it

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I love you guys

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and there's a name for that

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and that's called healthism

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now don't get me wrong

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in my line of work

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there's a lot of people that I see that want to gain

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weight lose weight

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yeah yeah like I'm

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I'm actually more

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likely to meet someone who wants to lose weight

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for whatever reason

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sometimes people come into the consulting

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room and they do not know that

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their problem that they are currently dealing with

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is a microcosm

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microcosm new word I learnt of their

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behaviour that they've had for a long period of time

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it's like I said

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it's only recently that I'm

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starting to find out that it is

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I it's not my place to to jump in

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and give you that advice if it's not something you want

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but most people in Nigeria actually want the advice

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so at the same time

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it's it's not being difficult

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when I ask people

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do this is this advice that you would want right now

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do you want my advice

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and many people are very receptive

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many people come to the hospital

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wanting to know what the doctor thinks

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it's almost like um um

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I'm getting paid to see my siblings

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like that's where I see it

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cause sometimes my siblings will call me and they have

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medical issues

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and I just give them advice

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I just tell them okay

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this is what you do

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this is what you do

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and I just feel like some people don't have that

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family member who is into medicine or is practicing

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and yes people would argue that I'm not supposed to be

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the person attending to my family members the most

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but it just

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it just is like

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if you have access to a medical professional

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most times people want to use that um

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I'll just advise that people don't abuse it so um

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healthism yeah yeah

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people meet me for weight

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weight gain

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weight loss

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I met one patient that was on the weight and um

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I tried giving some advice on how to you know

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build his weight up to a healthy level

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and all of that so yeah

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then this whole talk about healthism

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I don't really understand it

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I don't know why

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why do plenty things have so many isms these days

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like there's so

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there's so many isms

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it's it's crazy so um

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helltism let's see what she said about that

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helltism again

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and that's what I'm doing

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and there's a name for that

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and that's called healthism

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what are you doing

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that want to gain weight

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lose weight

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