Fat positivity won't kill you but being fat might.

[SarahD]

Obesity is now a Civil rights issue, with fat activists demanding acceptance for fat people. That seems fine. Nobody should experience discrimination because of body shape or size. But the "fat movement" is also trying to convince people that being fat, even enormously fat, is perfectly healthy. I have seen videos of very large women, stuffed into too-small yoga pants, dancing and testifying that they look hot and feel healthy. This wouldn't bother me except I get the feeling it convinces some people to embrace their fatness and maybe even adopt overeating and sedentary life as positive lifestyle choices. We have some popular influencers telling us that refusing to eat healthy and shunning exercise is an act of rebellion, a roar of defiance to the patriarchy that demands skinny women. And men, I guess. It's little confusing, but several fat advocates have died at relatively young ages. Did they dude themselves? And perhaps their followers?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12872397/amp/These-four-social-media-influencers-swept-movement-claims-obesity-perfectly-healthy-tragic-truth-died-age-45.html

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Agree.

No one should be shamed or discriminated against because they’re fat. That said, it’s not healthy and shouldn’t be encouraged as a valid lifestyle choice. I say this as a fat person myself that knows I need to eat less and healthier and exercise more.

[qazplm135]

2. I think there's layers here

Is being fat "healthy?"

Generally speaking, no.

Can you be skinny and have a poor diet, smoke, don't exercise, etc? Yep.

Is smoking marijuana healthy for you? Nope. Tobacco? Nope?
Alcohol? Other a few studies that might suggest light drinking has some minor benefits, not really.

Ultimately, each of us is responsible for our own health. I for one hover around 5-11, 215. On the one hand, that's technically the line for obese by BMI standards. It's most certainly overweight.

On the other hand, I hit the treadmill for elevated fast walking for 45 minutes a day 4-5 times a week, plus some light pushups and ab work. My cholesterol numbers are all good (My Triglycerides are a couple of points over good but I've dropped those by over 100 the last two years). No diabetes. Nothing else concerning for a guy in his mid 50s.

So to look at me, I'm overweight. But I'm also relatively healthy. Now, I'm going to try and get down below 210 before my summer physical. But it's more complicated than that.

Some of it is undoubtedly an equivalent reaction to the absolute vitriol we bring towards anyone who isn't slim and trim.