(October 23, 2015 at 11:09 am)Dystopia Wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size They also have a website.Thanks for the pointer. I've taken a look and read around the term.
Quote: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.I wasn't arguing, I was challenging. I wasn't aware of the existence of the term 'fat acceptance' so I was looking for extra information. I was extra sceptical because there's a tendency for those who might be intolerant of fat people (consciously or unconsciously) to consider any body positivity as 'promoting a fat lifestyle'.
Quote: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.Nothing that I've seen critically challenges the well-established view of health experts: that the more fat you have, the more likely you are to suffer certain medical conditions and the shorter your life-span's likely to be. Instead I've seen encouragement that people need to be accepting of human variety: people are going to be different shapes & sizes, even with the best care taken of their bodies so people need to stop making socio-cultural judgements as a result of individual perceptions of size. There seems to be a clear delineation between the social and the medical aspects of 'fat acceptance'.
Have you any examples of the tendency you refer to?
Sum ergo sum
