RE: "I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder"
December 15, 2014 at 5:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2014 at 5:26 pm by Napoléon.)
(December 15, 2014 at 1:08 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: No, those studies discovered that all other common morbidity factors normalized for, slightly overweight people lived longer than "normal" people as well. They didn't look into anything related to underweight people.
Emphasis on the 'slightly'...
Did it take into account the fact that many of those who identify as 'slightly overweight' on the BMI scale are actually not fat in the slightest, often times they're more muscular or even just built bigger? Yeah, didn't think so. Not a compelling study mate.
(December 15, 2014 at 3:15 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: 1000 times the number of people die from obesity related complications as do from eating disorders. Also it probably isn't unhealthy to be a little chubby in your early twenties, but that chubbiness is extremely like to turn into full out obesity in your 40s and 50s. I don't think the girl in question in the article looks terrible (or particularly attractive) in either picture but her message is all fucked up. Obesity passed up smoking as the number one cause of preventible death, but obese people are concerned that some men don't find them beautiful?
Pretty much bang on the money.
(December 15, 2014 at 2:13 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: She may not be society's ideal of feminine perfection, but that is a social construct, not a medical opinion.
The question isn't whether she's good looking, it's whether she's healthy. I get the sense people just assume I'm attacking her and saying she's ugly because she's "chubby", if you prefer that term. For me, if you can be called chubby, you can be called fat. I guess I throw that term around easier than some people. People are acting butt hurt because I said she's fat, she still looks fat in the second photo quite honestly and I make no apologies for it.
