http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120904193052.htm

And there you go, any argument you have ever had in support of fat-shaming just flew out the window. TA TA

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Of course fat people have been saying the same thing for decades. But of course anything a fat person says about themselves or their own health is laughed off as “wishful thinking”. Our own experiences are constantly being denied as “head in the sand” “it will catch up to you eventually” mentality. Despite those of us that exercise regularly and eat healthy, we’re told that none of it matters because we’re still fat -and therefore couldn’t POSSIBLY be healthy.

The sad thing about it though, is that people should not have to be healthy in order to deserve to be treated with human decency and respect and not have to live their lives stigmatized, bullied, marginalized, and shamed. People are deserving of equality and respect reguadless of if they are healthy or not.

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Oh, but bitch don’t let the fitspo and thinspo people hear that shit tho!!!!!

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You know that the real pisser is, though? There’s absolutely no medical evidence that most of the common metabolic disorders that are associated with obesity are actually caused by obesity in the first place. No one has ever been able to conclusively demonstrate a causal mechanism – correlation is all we’ve got. It’s entirely possible that we’ve got it completely arse-backwards; i.e., that it’s the metabolic disorders that lead to a greater propensity for obesity, rather than the obesity that leads to the metabolic disorders.

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Exactly.  The study identified a sub-group of fat people who were just as healthy as thin people.  These fat people were 

“metabolically healthy”.  But no causal connection has been proven that obesity causes metabolic disorders.  So no, there is no blaming the metabolically unhealthy fat people for their issues.  And even if there were, fat people deserve to be left the fuck alone.  This shit is between fat people and their medical team.  It is not an excuse for the rest of the world to point fingers.

This was also interesting:

In an accompanying editorial on both papers [3], Stephan von Haehling, Oliver Hartmann and Stefan Anker conclude: “The available studies, together with previously published study data, permit the conclusion that weight loss in patients with chronic illness and a BMI <40 kg/m2 is always bad, and in fact not a single study exists to suggest that weight loss in chronic illness makes patients live longer. In this context, fat tissue has several beneficial effects, for example in its action as an endocrine organ, but also, nevertheless, as an aid in protecting against hip fracture. Obesity may carry benefit up to a certain degree, and it should be recognized that obesity is not necessarily associated with abnormal metabolic function.”

Weight loss in chronically ill people who are fat but not super-duper fat is always bad and there is no reason to harass them to lose weight.

I say that again: 

Weight loss does not help chronically ill fat people become healthy, and in fact provides certain protections that confer longevity.

At some point people are going to have to admit that it’s not about our health, it’s about finding our bodies distasteful.  

If naysaying, nagging, concern-trolling assholes really cared about our health, they’d campaign to make sure that all fat people had access to good, affordable, evidence-based health care, as well as nutritious food that meets each individual’s specific health requirements.

They don’t.  They just yell at us for existing.

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