Health at Every Size (HAES) is a movement that "supports people in adopting health habits for the sake of health and well-being (rather than weight control)." It hopes to remove discrimination of obesity and improve standard of living for people who are overweight. HAES believes that traditional restrictive dieting does not result in sustained weight loss for some people, HAES suggests that this method is not always healthful. 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. HAES has recently gained popularity among proponents of the fat acceptance movement as an alternative to weight-loss.
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. Extensive “collateral damage” has resulted: Food and body preoccupation, self-hatred, eating disorders, discrimination, poor health... 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.
Why is it taboo to tell someone their size is unhealthy
Because it's inappropriate and rude... what if every time you ordered something unhealthy at a restaurant someone from another table leaned over and said to you, "That's not healthy." It's not their business, it's not their place.
Of course not for all people, but for almost everyone, if they were truly healthy, they wouldn't be overweight. It's just the truth that most overweight people don't want to hear.
Because it's inappropriate and rude... what if every time you ordered something unhealthy at a restaurant someone from another table leaned over and said to you, "That's not healthy." It's not their business, it's not their place.
If that situation were applied to this "movement," it would be acceptable for the person ordering unhealthy food to say that their food is healthy and anyone who dares to say otherwise is wrong.
Because it's inappropriate and rude... what if every time you ordered something unhealthy at a restaurant someone from another table leaned over and said to you, "That's not healthy." It's not their business, it's not their place.
It should be everyone's business! A fat person should not order a a cheesecake therefor I'm
Going to encourage them to order a salad. I don't want to live in a repulsive unhealthy lazy world!
Of course not for all people, but for almost everyone, if they were truly healthy, they wouldn't be overweight. It's just the truth that most overweight people don't want to hear.
overweight people can be as perfectly healthy as thin people.
I think it's important to feel confident with yourself no matter what size you are but at the same time there comes a time when you have to realize that you need to loose (or gain) weight bc it's affecting your health
telling overweight people that they need to loose weight in order to be healthy is taboo because most people do it in a negative and rude way...but it doesn't have to be a lot of people use health as a way to fat-shame which is ****ed up because even though they are kinda right they're just using it as a way to put others down