RE: Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health
October 23, 2015 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2015 at 11:10 am by Dystopia.)
(October 23, 2015 at 11:07 am)Ben Davis Wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size(October 23, 2015 at 9:23 am)Dystopia Wrote: What's up with this fat acceptance movement?
I've not come across any 'fat acceptance' movement. I've encountered a 'body positivity' movement (which tries to encourage people to have self-esteem, irrespective of their physical shape whilst countering intolerance from people who criticise physical attributes & consider them as representative of a target's personality) but not 'fat acceptance'. Likewise, I've never come across anyone who's said "Being fat is healthy". Are you sure you're seeing what you think you're seeing?
They also have a website. Do you think you can say "I have not heard of X" and use it as an argument? I have never met a pro-bullfighting group, but I know they exist.
B sides, those movements are typically close to each other and some people may even be a part of both movements - Health at every size is about being healthy and eating right while being overweight, which is in itself a good principle, but it fails because there's a tendency to assume it's not fatness that causes health issues even when doctors confirm it is.
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