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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (19 children)

Fat people. There, I said it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I think the issue is with normalizing unhealthy bodies. idc how you look as long as you're healthy, but society is becoming increasingly accepting of obviously unhealthy lifestyles and bodies. It's no better than anorexia.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Unhealthy bodies like how? What dobyou mean by that? How can you know someone's health status and or lifestyle by the way they look? If that were true, blood Labs and other tests would be useless.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

If your eyeballs are missing, I can make an assumption that your vision isn't great just by looking at you. That's not a moral judgement.

Doesn't mean blood tests are useless, and in fact it means we have some idea where to start investigating a potential health problem.

Yes, I agree that there's bias against folks who are overweight, and also that there's a range of risk associated with being overweight. It's pretty clear, however, that obesity is a health concern that we should take seriously. If someone smokes five pack of cigs a day, I'm going to make an assumption about their lung health. There's always outliers that live to 100 smoking and not doing exercise, but it would be a shit doctor if they didn't tell folks not to follow their example.

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