(February 13, 2016 at 3:57 pm)Mermaid Wrote: I dunno. I don't think anyone has license to judge another person's relative health based on their BMI if you are not their doctor.
Concern for health just does not hold water. What of the thin person who eats fast food as a habit? Or an otherwise shitty diet?
I also disagree that "fat acceptance" encourages anyone to be fat. People are what they are. Judging them for being overweight doesn't make them not overweight. It only fuels the weight loss industry.
Teaching kids proper eating habits is a different topic.
Yes, skinny fat is a thing. There are tons of those people around too, and if I know a person who eats junk food constantly, I also have sympathy for them, because I know our society and constant advertisement encourage it, and also how hard it is to be a working person or parent and find time to cook healthy foods.
Sympathy =/= judgement.
Do you feel ok in judging an anorexic person as being unhealthy (this is not judging them as a full human being, you are just judging their health based on knowing they have anorexia), and think that it is ok to encourage that person to seek a doctors help in getting better? What do you think "getting better" means in this instance? Does it mean accepting that she is anorexic and underweight? I mean, people are what they are. Right?
Yes, there needs to be waay more focus in our society on teaching healthy eating habits. But I think corporate America likes keeping us fat, skinny fat, and anorexic because, as you say, it feeds their money machines. That does not mean you should just give up and accept being obese (or eating junk, or anorexia).
People can be somewhat overweight and healthy. The girl in the OP is a good example, her weight in the after pic could easily be a healthy weight. But you CANNOT be so large that you are unable to walk and be healthy. To constantly set up one as the argument when we are clearly talking about the other is a strawman. It is no different than saying the girl in the before pic was healthy just because she could do 90 minutes of cardio.
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