Row over Cosmopolitan cover for calling obesity healthy

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37 minutes ago, StrawberryBlond said:

I have looked into Health At Every Size and don't agree with it. And this was confirmed to me by ex-obese people who had lived that life and know how how unhealthy they were in retrospect. Some almost died. Healthy at every size? Even someone who is anorexic, can no longer menstruate and is wearing clothes meant for children? Even someone who eats 5000 calories a day, is bed-bound and struggling to walk and breathe? Clearly, health at every size is a lie. Respecting someone at any size is one thing, saying they're healthy at every size is another. Approach to weight loss is of course paramount and there are good and bad ways to do that. I'm in no way saying that telling people to just lose weight is enough. But how weight is lost isn't the issue we're debating, the issue is that someone is an unhealthy weight and that has to change. I have seen very toxic, inaccurate arguments touted by the fat acceptance movement like: "there is no evidence that people who lose weight through dieting keep that weight off long term." While the amount of people who relapse is huge, there are many factors as to why that is the case that need to be addressed but the solution is not to throw in the towel and decide to not even try. And this argument also discounts those who have successfully lost the weight and maintained it (usually the ones who lost it gradually through diet changes and exercise over an extended period of time without the aid of medical procedures). But fat acceptance movements don't encourage you to focus on the positive success stories but rather to tell yourself that things will never get better so don't attempt to try. When you see them tear down a previously overweight celebrity who has chosen to lose weight and how the fat acceptance movement seems almost entirely aimed at women makes you wonder what the true intention is because health and autonomy doesn't seem to be what's supported here.

It's your right to disagree with health experts and scientific evidence that is presented in the articles I shared, if you so choose. But your outright rejection of Health at Every Size tells me you haven't actually taken the time to learn about it. It is not simply saying that you are healthy no matter what your size is.

This will be the end of my participation here. I have said my piece and provided links to resources and that's all the energy I choose to expend on it.