Dr David Knight, take a note of his name. Because here he is letting you all know that if you ever need to see a fertility specialist and you’re wanting someone sensitive, non-judgemental and non-patronising, well.. you might keep looking. He is the kind of dear doctor to which posts like this were written.
He sees about 1000 women with infertility problems each year, and said a lack of education had created a generation of obese would-be parents who had no idea what they were doing to their bodies and any future babies.
Bad food is cheap, convenient and addictive,” Dr Knight said. “We are dealing with a significant psychological addiction to a set of behaviours and we are all paying a price for it, whether it’s through what we spend on the health system or because we don’t have our whole seat on the plane because of the person next to us.”
Society was telling fat people it was “completely OK” not to be accountable for their actions, he said.
Isn’t he just darling? Don’t you just want to cuddle him up and pinch his cheeks and say “wubba wubba wubba, who’s the cutest doctor”? According to his website, Dr Knight believes that “happy women have happy eggs”. Imagine how relaxed you’d be at that internal examination.
Oh yes, perfect for Mother’s Day.”You’re FAT, your baby’s going to DIE”. Anybody got a wall that needs a fist though it?
Definitely insensitive. He is right to criticize what we eat (and that goes for everyone! Just because you happen to be thin doesn’t mean that your are healthy or that you should be eating nothing but junk food!). But he also needs to consider all of the social forces that go into what we eat: subsidies for processed foods and not organic foods, lack of access to fresh healthy food for the poor, “food deserts,” deceitful marketing… We would need to change a whole mess of government policies before people will really, truly be able to make lifestyle changes.
he sounds as logical as the obstetrician who told a close friend (on discovering that she was university educated! my, my! gold star for you in my surgery!) that women from western sydney feel less pain in labour than women from the north shore/eastern suburbs. Money makes you so much more sensitive, dahlings….
I discovered I actually know someone who was treated by him. Apparently the article in no way misrepresents him.