Murashko called the ideology of a toxic body positive harmful to citizens

The ideology of toxic body positivity has a negative impact on Russian citizens. This was stated on April 14 by the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko in a report at the opening of the Russian National Congress "Man and Medicine".

"The ideology of a toxic body positive, which denies or prefers not to notice the link between obesity and health, is harmful primarily for the citizens themselves, as it takes away years of healthy life from them," TASS quoted him as saying.

Murashko also noted that obese patients need to be helped. In this case, we are talking about the use of medicines and other technologies that are available to the medical community.

According to him, citizens should pay attention to obesity. This disease contributes to the formation of up to 40 percent of non-communicable diseases in humans, she added. "Газета.Ru ".

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Earlier, on March 4, Elena Ignatikova, deputy chief physician of the KDC NMIC of Therapy and Preventive Medicine for clinical and expert work, internist, nutritionist, told Izvestia how to avoid obesity. According to her, obesity often begins in childhood. The doctor advised parents and children to play sports together. According to the expert, children between the ages of six and 18 need to devote 60 minutes of physical activity every day.