With obesity, is it cruel to be kind? | James O'Brien - The Whole Show 

Bring back that wonderful lady Sangita Myska

Your coworker got booted for criticizing Israel and you're talking about obesity?

Cruelty is never kind by it's very definition! You don't have to smack a person to get their respect; in fact you just might lose your standing with that approach.

My daughter has her first A level on friday. My house is filled with post it notes and tears. Thanks for thinking of the kids James.

They swapped our lovely Sangita Myska for some hard faced raddled old boot😢

Yes James i am sick but it’s sick of the Tories.

It takes a woman, in Claire, to express so clearly and with true humanity what is happening before our eyes. Just as Sangita did for us.

People that don’t work complaining/demonizing the less well off, to either a)spur them on to work harder. Or b) assuage their guilt when they turn their back on their medical needs. Cruelty is a strategy to avoid helping

I was a normal weight until a went through a bad patch after losing my father and mother 5 months apart a doctor started handing out pills like candy within 3 years i was 140kg until i said enough and just stopped putting food on my mouth i lived on 800 calories a day and walked 5 miles a day 12 months later i was 80kg 18 months later im 72kg and i can tell you nobody overweight is happy and you are wasting your life in misery by remaining that way it is not ok

So overeating is a mental health issue and we should have sympathy. Whereas racism is a choice.

There are many more families where all the people able to work are working, and they tend to want quick meals, processed foods..

I blew some gaskets in my noggin a few years ago, was in psychiatric care unit. I'm finding listening to james is really helping me to rewire my neural pathways. And is the kind ov moral compass that I still want to adhere to. Very inspirational, ty sir 🫡 Thank you lbc x❤

Obesity is a much more serious problem than we think. As long as we dont start looking at Supermarkets ( nearly 80% of the products in our supermarkets is unhealty ) then the obesity problem will not be solved.

Its why we have the ability to think James... yet loving kindness is a great asset to have... and it comes under the heading of expansion of the soul... which we all have within us....🤔

I was on a waiting list for an operation for 6 years and suffered with suicidal thoughts and depression which caused my wait to increase. I wouldn't have said I was obese but I was refused the operation because of my wait. So now I'm depressed and suicidal but I'm not on the waiting list. The operation would have improved my self confidence and enabled me to leave my house more.

Labour and their ‘policies’ have always attracted the flies!

I see so many people pushing against allowing those with weight problems to be comfortable in themselves, to be proud of themselves. It's baffling to me. How can you not see that for a lot of people, the very reason they are overweight is because they hate themselves. They already live with constant shame, that is what is causing the problem, not what is going to fix it.

The doctor was explaining the reasons for obesity and he was interrupted. Very frustrating when the most helpful thing would be understanding.

the "right to buy" a council house makes as much sense as the right to buy a stretch of public road, or a right to buy the local park. helping people get on the property ladder by purchasing private property makes an amount of sense, but public housing stock should forever remain public housing stock

I just finished a clinical study for Ozempic. I've been on it for a year, and it literally changed my life. I was type 2 diabetic, and obese. I lost 60 lb in a year, and my A1C is exceeding expectations. There are side effects that do take some getting use to, but those side effects are what tame your appetite. My eating habits have completely done a 180. I was hopeless without it. I now see light.

Why does it have to be either or, when it can be neither ... You don't need to be cruel, nor kind, just be real. Serious conversation about the consequences might help to scare people into thinking about it more and trying to solve the problem... and then showing them little steps that they could make to decrease calorie consumption and be more active might help them to actually change their habits ... like stop drinking fizzy drinks/alcohol and fast food/chips, or replace the calorie dense foods you like with less calorie dense food that you still enjoy. And do sport on top of that - signing up for something regular where you're forced to participate might help in that regard. That's the most general version of it, where it's caused by laziness/ignorance ... but of course we need to treat the underlying causes, so if they're genetic/psychological, then another approach might be necessary, but it probably won't hurt to at least do the minimum and go from there.

Whenever I happen to visit the UK, Im always on the alert that the food available there is really lacking compared to the price/options in other places. We kinda joke the country has americanised its food industry but that might be kinda true.

James I live in South Africa where many people are overweight & it's mostly the poor who cannot afford healthy food like fruit & vegs & live on cheap food like bread & jam!

Can anyone explain what happened to Sangita??

Why should people have the right to buy social housing from their council but not the right to buy private housing from their landlord?

Walking and running are free - I wake up at 5:00 every day and go for a run before work. Stop the excuses and get cracking.

24:16 You can rest assured. As an obese person, I am first and foremost aware every day that it would be better to lose weight. To see or hear people go through life not even having to think about the kind of food they eat is astonishing. And to see them enjoy (or even *need*) their daily exercise is strange to me too. It's a daily part of life, I need no reminder that I ought to lose weight. I'm sure it's similar for other people in my position.

It was eye-opening for me to watch a RU-vid series called the Aetiology of Obesity. It explains the hormonal reasons why we gain weight; and therefore need to understand this process in order to lose weight. The common understandings of calorie counting and extra exercise are not that relevant. I highly recommend this series.

Help people learn to like themselves, get them to a point where they feel they can go out, can go for a walk, without feeling shame. If every time you leave the house, you get people looking at you, making comments, making you feel like you should hide away, you're going to do exactly that, hide away. Being cruel is not going to help. Society is so dumb.

On Sangita, if LBC bosses thought no one would notice or miss her absence, they are very much mistaken. She did nothing wrong at all! Shame on you LBC!

I wonder when the stigma around living in a council house started.

Niceness doesn't lead to people taking their own lives, nastiness does. People who are overweight know that they're overweight and they know what they need to do to lose weight. No one wants to be obese, even within the body positivity movement. It's not a matter of being nice or nasty, it's about understanding the cause and helping to provide people with the tools they need to help themselves

I'm 63 and I was moderately obese for a while in my 40s - having diverted somewhat from the whole food plant-based diet I adopted at 21 (ethical / environmental vegan) ... after being actually "athletic" in my 30s, I got heavy due to comfort eating. I am a daily utilitarian cyclist in a hilly city and at my heaviest I was going on social cycle rides of up to 70 miles over a day and I would often do a 20 mile diversion on the way home from work - so exercise probably saved me from serious harm. I'm one of three slim brothers - the other two omnivores, one even more physically active than me ... I worry about the state of one brother's arteries (big BBQ fan and perhaps by default on a sort of "Atkins" diet). Weight is easily gained, but difficult to lose. I'm back to near my optimum healthy weight after 5 years and my diet is more vegan and whole plant than ever and has ended up roughly "Mediterranean" - beans, broccoli and hummus (tahini rather than olive oil) ... 60:25:15

I also have an old Express and Star from 1963 & is rammed with vacancies on Thursdays 8 pages of them, most in factories and engineering but all gone now,population is increasing with a talored universal credit scheme for zero hour contracts,people cannot base a future on that ,we have to stsrt producing again in order to wipe off uks debt of £3.5 trillion ,the sick note culture is due a little to Tory austerity .Job centres make up fanthom jobs through agencies i knoe this from experience ,35 hours work search a week is enough to drive anyone mental whem there r either no jobs especially in the industrial sector ,food,care and retail maybe

I totally disagreed with buying my council house under Thatcher’s time but when you were getting a house for a third of the cost it would be madness not to buy when it cheaper to pay a mortgage than paying council house rent.

Another layer - people with chronic health problems are very profitable for the various industries that encourage people to get on antidepressants, on weight reduction drugs, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease drugs -

A few years ago I was obese. I used to go to the gym everyday for an hour and a half. There was not an once of fat on me. I looked up the definition of obese and I was obese. It was defined as your weight depending on your hight. I was 3 stone above what was considered normal for my hight. That defined me as obese.

As an Aussie I'm not a regular viewer and only clue in for a refresher on UK politics, I only ever watched James on LBC, but Sangita became a quick favourite. What a shame.

There are many factors to consider - even fresh fruit and veggies don't have the nutritional value they used to have because of poor soil and enhancements to grow things bigger -

It's not so much about eating less more like eating proper food and stay away as much as possible from processed food.

Bully obrien bring back Sangita

Last I want to say, from the past pandemic - I feel like there was more of a focus on treatment than prevention and mitigation - and turns out, there's long covid - an awful lot of people are going to need lifetime care for chronic illness and disorders - I don't think those things have been factored in yet - the chronic fatigue, the worsening of conditions people were already dealing with, and we still don't know what it's done to the people that initially showed little or no symptoms.. these things can lie dormant for years and years..

Perhaps Sangita is studying for her exams.

Ultra processed food is also a part of the problem

We just need to do onto others as you would like to have done onto you... because as you fo to others it will return to "you"

Disliking every video until Sangita is back

I've gone from being obese to developing anorexia and back to obesity with my metabolism destroyed by taking over 60 laxative a day and going 5 months without eating solid food, when I physically recovered from anorexia you never mentally recover my weight shot up as my body when into protection mode and now I can't lose weight

My BMI says I'm obese (32) but I play 10+ football matches a week

Indeed, Farage is a nasty person.

Bring back Sangita

Tories complain about people getting something for nothing unlessits them and their rich mates

To listen to James start out the hour with the theme of criticism of people based on weight..hes not got over his issues with weight.

Where is Sangita ?!

Bring back Sangita!

Is there any correlation between obesity and income? Asking for a friend.

the only things that have made me work out are myself and someone bullying me about it - either actual bullying or joke bullying - either way its not nice comments that made me work out - this applies to most people - quite obviously we've all gone a bit too soft - IN MANY AREAS - not just the fat issue - think pronouns - catering to peoples mental delusions instead of the reality doesnt worjk out well for anyone in the long run - sad but true

Half of us need to be telling the other half to "snap out of it!"

Haven’t heard much about that picture of health: Therésè Coffey.

you know its going to be very interesting over the next lol 10 years to watch James slowly become a Jeremy Corbyn supporter lol i look forward to it lol

Keep getting tesco ads on YT. The voice that says "clubcard accepted" sounds like sunak (without the childish whining). About his level!

1:00:46 but was it even for them remember what you said before even those that bought their house thru that scheme in the 80s dont own it any more do they ...

Cant listen to this man. Just talks about himself constantly

If obese people don't care about themselves, then neither do I 🤷🏻‍♂️.

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Im obese and it violates my rights when supermarkets put fruit n veg and by the entrance and proper food like cakes and pizzas in the furthest corner.

And that means u are officially employed 2 months even though you are not working for half that period which gives lower unemployment figures.i went through it all in 2016/17

Eating 10 donuts in a row instead of bananas is not the Tories’ fault.

It’s a sick note culture, well let’s all stay home and stop people dying 😂 (covid) Is there sats on what percentage of these sickies are in fact coming from over weight people? Anorexic? Drug users? I know more people taking a sickie when the suns out ! Or hung over from the alcohol or drugs consumed over the weekend. 😂

Obesity - people close their eyes to it, but it's a potentially fatal disease largely due to bad diet.

I swaer lbc has redeemed themes a little bit by get rid of that annoying women your heading in tbe right direction next it needs to be this guy.