"Let’s face facts. We’ve lost the war on obesity. Fighting fat hasn’t made the fat go away. And being thinner, even if we knew how to successfully accomplish it, will not necessarily make us healthier or happier. The war on obesity has taken its toll. Few of us are at peace with our bodies, whether because we’re fat or because we fear becoming fat.

Health at Every Size is the new peace movement.

Very simply, it acknowledges that good health can best be realized independent from considerations of size. It supports people—of all sizes—in addressing health directly by adopting healthy behaviors."

http://www.haescommunity.org/

From Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size


I think they're a bunch of fat ****s but what's your take on this?

I mean the weight issue goes on and on but it really, honestly and truly just comes down to what people are eating and how they're living. Of course people come from different financial and health backgrounds, but at the end of the day you don't get fat by eating healthily, drinking lots of water and regularly exercising. I just don't get why there's such a struggle.

I'm not naturally thin, I was chubby when I was younger and as I grew up I realized I wanted to be healthier and feel better and so I started running and told my parents I didn't want any snacks or junk food and from then onwards it was just eating sensibly. Nothing weird like skipping carbs or anything dramatic.

These are probably the same people who post on Tumblr blogs about their doctors using "thin privilege" against them.

I kinda believe it can be true. I had a great grandfather who was pretty overweight most of his life (he wasn't obese though) and he lived to be 89. And another person on my father's side (I think she was a great grandma to me, not sure) lived to be 92 and she wasn't skinny.

Thing is, you still don't want to encourage people not to get healthier though because just because that's the case for few people doesn't mean it's the case for everyone.

So basically they're still helping people lose weight, but not for the sake of being thin? It actually makes sense, if you want to change your lifestyle for superficial reasons, most of the time it won't work.

No they don't care about weight loss.

Its literally written "childhood obesity" there, which is totally not right and one of the reason even very young people suffer from heart attacks nowadays.

Ive heard that a slightly bit of overwheight is in fact not bad, but good.

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with people who think like this: it's the reason they made it.