Great article on the issues with body positivity/health at any size as well as the concurrent problems with a fatphobic society https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/opinion/weight-loss-body-positivity.html …
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I used to have a BMI of 35. I'm currently slightly overweight, and will probably always be higher than the *healthy* range I know what it is like to be discriminated against due to fatness, and it is really fucking horrible
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But that doesn't mean that we should stop advocating for reductions in obesity. It is almost always better for your health to get to a *healthy* weight - not always, but most of the time
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IMPORTANT ADDENDUM: people often present body acceptance as one of two choices - either you agree that weight has no impact on health, or you are fatphobic I do not agree
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It is possible to try and reduce the stigma of obesity, promote acceptance of people who are not thin, and still accept that weight contributes to chronic disease
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Agree - some people can achieve health regardless of body size but not everyone. How do we help those to realise that obesity can make diabetes or CVD worse? Without being patronising?
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How to communicate this to individuals? Very hard My personal experience was that I never needed the risks explained - I *knew* that being fat was unhealthy - it was more about the pragmatic, everyday benefits like walking up stairs without being out of breath that sold me
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