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Can we still promote diets?

2021-01-15T08:11:24.242Z


In the era of “body positivism” and the health crisis, the subject of thinness has become taboo in the media and on social networks. However, in real life, there are still French people wanting to lose the pounds of confinement.


A week ago, it was the controversy of the moment on social networks.

"Operation Renaissance", the new documentary reality of M6 animated by Karine Le Marchand which follows the courses of restrictive surgery of the stomach of ten people in situation of morbid obesity, aroused the controversy even before being in the antenna.

From January 8, on the Mediapart site, the Gras Politique collective presented its arguments in order to "

alert public opinion and institutional health partners to the dangerousness of this program."

(…) From the girdle to the delivery of calibrated meals for a new stomach, from operative coaching to a paid support group, including the

“self love”

advice book

sold by the presenter, it is a whole parallel economy which develops around these surgical techniques, a new El Dorado for the entrepreneurs of the culture of the regimes.

"

On social networks, under the hashtag #PasMaRenaissance, more than the concept of the show deemed "

abominable

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Source: lefigaro

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