Labelling obesity as a disease "risks reducing autonomy, disempowering and robbing people of the intrinsic motivation that is such an important enabler of change."

把肥胖视为一种疾病“可能会降低人们的自主权，削弱并剥夺人们内在的动力，而这种动力是推动改变的重要因素。”

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Cynicism wasn't always so disempowering.

犬儒主义并不总是这样令人无力。

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But that's a very narrow and largely disempowering perspective.

然而这是一个非常狭隘、消极的看法。

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And only as long as our perspective is still different will that seem like a disempowering judgment.

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And that is the antidote to the disempowering effects of aggrievement and entitlement.

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Replace old disempowering habits of speech with new ones that let people know you are a woman to be both listened to and reckoned with.

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