What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?

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My thoughts?   We can address the public health issue of obesity without making it personal by shaming fat people.   The former is compassionate, the latter is just a fucking dick move.

The fact that government nutrition recommendations encouraged people to load up on an unhealthy amount of carbohydrates is at least partially responsible for this as a public health problem.  Treating it as an individual moral issue isn't helping.

Our HR here was "threatening" to impose a surcharge on anyone who was above a certain BMI.  Completely aside from the fact that a person's medical issues are really none of their business, I'm not going to be OK with that unless they also don't same for other actuarial risks.  Hello, tobacco use, what about you?  They went so far as to try and require employees to participate in a wellness program that included weigh-ins, tracking vitals, etc.  Sorry, no.  Those things are between myself and my physician, and they are none of my employer's business.

The last company that I worked for did impose that on employees that smoked. I didn't argue, I paid up.

I don't care what other peoples weight is as long as I'm not being told that I need to accept it and make sacrifices for it in my personal life.