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soc_puppethttps://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/faqs/ - The confusion of weight and health does a disservice to fat people because people (often including doctors) think that they can look at us and determine our health, it also does a dangerous disservice to thin people who are told that they are healthy simply because of their weight and that isn’t what the evidence shows. In fact, the evidence shows that people’s habits are a much better determinant of health than their size is.
https://kateharding.net/faq/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/ - Weight itself is not a health problem, except in the most extreme cases (i.e., being underweight or so fat you’re immobilized). In fact, fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to survive cardiac events, and some studies have shown that fat can protect against “infections, cancer, lung disease, heart disease, osteoporosis, anemia, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and type 2 diabetes.”
https://kateharding.net/2007/11/27/the-fantasy-of-being-thin/ - Those of us in the anti-dieting camp are frequently accused of demoralizing fat people, of sending a cruelly pessimistic message. I’ve never quite gotten my head around that one, since the message we’re sending is that you’re actually allowed to love your fat body instead of hating it, and you can take steps to substantially improve your health without fighting a losing battle with your weight.
http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/eat-food-stuff-you-like-as-much-as-you-want/ - It should come as no surprise to anyone reading here that our culture views food as a moral issue. A potentially dangerous moral issue. And, setting aside the very-interesting-but-not-to-be-had-right-now discussion of ethical and religious foodways, food just…isn’t.
Food isn’t moral. It’s not immoral, either. It’s morally neutral.
https://kateharding.net/faq/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/ - Weight itself is not a health problem, except in the most extreme cases (i.e., being underweight or so fat you’re immobilized). In fact, fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to survive cardiac events, and some studies have shown that fat can protect against “infections, cancer, lung disease, heart disease, osteoporosis, anemia, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and type 2 diabetes.”
https://kateharding.net/2007/11/27/the-fantasy-of-being-thin/ - Those of us in the anti-dieting camp are frequently accused of demoralizing fat people, of sending a cruelly pessimistic message. I’ve never quite gotten my head around that one, since the message we’re sending is that you’re actually allowed to love your fat body instead of hating it, and you can take steps to substantially improve your health without fighting a losing battle with your weight.
http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/eat-food-stuff-you-like-as-much-as-you-want/ - It should come as no surprise to anyone reading here that our culture views food as a moral issue. A potentially dangerous moral issue. And, setting aside the very-interesting-but-not-to-be-had-right-now discussion of ethical and religious foodways, food just…isn’t.
Food isn’t moral. It’s not immoral, either. It’s morally neutral.
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Date: 2016-10-01 04:08 am (UTC)THIS. Not to harp on it too much, since it feels a bit like getting stuck on "THE PATRIARCHY HURTS MEN TOO", but this aspect of it is my own lived experience and... yeah. Every so often, I still get a little bitter about how simple turning my health around by ~changing my lifestyle~ turned out to be, yet how I went through so much shit and the doctors were so puzzled, and never once were the words "diet and exercise" thrown in my face... and I'm pretty well convinced it's because I happened to have a societally-acceptable body. (As long as she looks right, everything must be fine!)
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Date: 2016-10-03 04:48 am (UTC)As a side note, my mom expressed ...willingness, if not interest, in being introduced to HAES, and I figured these (plus maybe the HAES site itself) would be good starter links for her, especially since her concern is health. I'm going to take your response as evidence that I'm on the right track ;)