Discussion: Health At Every Size - Page 6

uhoh-ohno

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Originally posted by Erik

But these people you were describing can't be healthy if they're living on unhealthy foods.

You seriously don't think providing healthy foods at more locations and at more affordable prices is a more practical (and logical) cause to campaign for than just eating unhealthy foods and telling people to "love all bodies"?

You're completely missing the point, and I challenge you to actually read the OP again

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The "H" in HAES is not an adjective for overweight or obese bodies. The "H" in Health at Every Size is a noun that refers to behaviors that promote wellness.

The OP clearly states . . .

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HAES proposes that health is a result of behaviors that are independent of body weight and submits that societal obsession with thinness does not allow for diversity in body shapes.

Just the other day, I read an article about this obese woman who decided to take up running. The main thing she struggled with was anxiety about how people would view her and shame her for having the gaul to run in public while fat. How is fat shaming doing her any good, if it's making her too anxious to exercise? Weight loss is often a biproduct of healthy behavior (exercise/diet) HAES says that you can adopt healthy behaviors, no matter what your size, and that you should focus on those healthy behaviors rather than weight loss.

BeBeMint

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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf

it takes more than shopping healthy to have good health. Many of those foods require tools to cook and prepare meals out of them that many people don't have.

If you don't own a stove, a pot, and a pan well then there is more wrong with you then your health

Not being able to buy healthy foods is one thing, if you can't pay a bill then get a job

jpow

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Originally posted by uhoh-ohno

You're completely missing the point, and I challenge you to actually read the OP again

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The "H" in HAES is not an adjective for overweight or obese bodies. The "H" in Health at Every Size is a noun that refers to behaviors that promote wellness.

The OP clearly states . . .

Just the other day, I read an article about this obese woman who decided to take up running. The main thing she struggled with was anxiety about how people would view her and shame her for having the gaul to run in public while fat. How is fat shaming doing her any good, if it's making her too anxious to exercise? Weight loss is often a biproduct of healthy behavior (exercise/diet) HAES says that you can adopt healthy behaviors, no matter what your size, and that you should focus on those healthy behaviors rather than weight loss.

I applaud any overweight person at a gym trying to work out. There are gyms that promote an healthy workout environment for all like Planet Fitness too. But even running outside, the majority of people would not frown on an overweight person trying to get in shape.

Tylerbv

is this troll in here real

KillingYourCareer

No. Being overweight and being too underweight is unhealthy.

Tropez

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Originally posted by KillingYourCareer

No. Being overweight and being too underweight is unhealthy.

No. You can be unhealthy at any size. A person of normal weight can still have high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and other ailments.

And you can be overweight by eating healthy. Some healthy food like almonds and avocado can add those pounds when not in control.

What people need is to eat moderately, diversely, and stay active.

materialboy

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Originally posted by MLover

No because being fat is not healthy!

this.but not being sick from anorexia tho

Reinvention

Kii fatties.

Reinvention

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Originally posted by Tropez

No. You can be unhealthy at any size. A person of normal weight can still have high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and other ailments.

And you can be overweight by eating healthy. Some healthy food like almonds and avocado can add those pounds when not in control.

What people need is to eat moderately, diversely, and stay active.

That makes no sense. So when you grab the fat on your stomach pressing against your arteries limiting your blood flow and therefore reducing the capacity and efficiency of your vital organs, that's healthy cause it's from "healthy fats"?

priest

i wonder how many obese 80 year olds there are.

Tropez

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Originally posted by Reinvention

That makes no sense. So when you grab the fat on your stomach pressing against your arteries limiting your blood flow and therefore reducing the capacity and efficiency of your vital organs, that's healthy cause it's from "healthy fats"?

That's obese. I wasn't refering to that. Isn't overweight like chubby kinda like Sam Smith.

MP2K

What's with these threads lately throwing hate at overweight people, is this the new Racism threads of 2015? If so stop trying to make that happen. You guys will forever be trash either way.

jonasha

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Originally posted by MP2K

What's with these threads lately throwing hate at overweight people, is this the new Racism threads of 2015? If so stop trying to make that happen. You guys will forever be trash either way.

Exactly. Weight is the new racism.

Robert

I'm not saying we should fat-shame people but if you are over-weight/obese then it's unhealthy and I'm sick of "fat-activists" trying to say it isn't. Of course their free to live life as they please and if their happy living like that their perfectly entitled to without being judged.

I do think however if you have an obese pre-adolescent child (note there's a big difference between obese and overweight) and there isn't a legit medical reason for it that parents should be reprimanded as it's borderline child abuse.

BBathHausOfGaga

HAES is BS and if you try to argue with one of them they will ignore your points and just say that you're fat shaming, or they will use their emotions to argue.