Re: the weight debate building. (this is about eating issues, not medical conditions)

[stoney321]

As someone who was groomed by her mother to have a specific body type, and ridiculed publicly when I didn't have that, as someone who was told by her father that it looked like I had a tire in my waist band, as someone that was an exercise bulimic in her late teens and was grey-faced and wan from being unhealthy, as someone who watched her best

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[dancetomato]

Being overweight, eating poorly, and not exercising is bad for you. What a shocker, eh?

Eating poorly and not exercising are bad for you. Being overweight: not necessarily so. I am morbidly obese, yet my cholesterol and blood pressure are fine. Overweight women can have better bone density than thin women. Fat women can be unhealthy or they can be tri-athletes. Waist to hip ratio is more indicative of heart disease than weight. A thin woman with little difference between waist and hip measurements is statistically more prone to heart disease than an hour glass woman whose BMI is 40. The BMI is seriously flawed and has little correlation with health at all.

I know you mean well. But I had to say something because the whole point of Health At Every Size is to get away from saying being overweight is, in and of itself, bad for you.

[stoney321]

Is everyone overweight in poor health? No. Look at you: cholesterol and blood pressure are good, which is one of the problems for people who have poor health due to being overweight. But you can't deny that helath issues arise from being overweight DUE TO poor eating choices and lack of exercise

[dancetomato]

But you can't deny that helath issues arise from being overweight DUE TO poor eating choices and lack of exercise.My issue is by singling out "overweight" due to poor eating choices and lack of exercise, you are in a subtle way giving the message "fat people can get thin if they just get their acts together." I have no issue with your statement if you also include "underweight due to poor eating choices" and "normal weight due to poor eating choices" and "obese due to poor eathing choices" and "morbidly obese due to poor eating choices." I know you have endeavored to include those other categories, but by having that sentence standing alone as a given contributes in small but real ways to weight prejudice

[stoney321]

I will add an addendum re: thin people to that sentence, if it didn't seem clear that I was also saying that thin doesn't mean healthy. I see your point, and can easily adjust that so I'm not singling out a specific type, absolutely

[dancetomato]

Thanks! *gives self gold star for pointedness*

Love you too, baby.