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Originally posted by JessPop
Clearly this thread is asking for an opinion on what we find to be socially acceptable in terms of addressing overweight people about their weight issues.
I don't believe in coddling and lying to people by telling them that being overweight makes them equally as healthy as someone who works out everyday and eats well. It's cute that you want to cart out these supposed years of "researched" facts. At the end of the day you are just one currently (or formerly) overweight person who is in your feelings because you felt you were treated unfairly in HS. That doesn't make you special or unique. And it also doesn't make your inaccurate information correct or invalidate someone else's opinion. It's common sense and has been discussed many times before.
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TELL ME EXACTLY how my information is incorrect. Just saying it without evidence is worthless.
I will lay it out is terms basic enough for you to understand.
The Overweight + Obese are a part of 4 measurement categories based on BMI.
The study showed this as far as mortality rate for all categories with 0 being a normal person of average weight.
Overweight 18%
Class 1 Obese 18%
Class 2 Obese 18%
Class 3 Obese 18%
If you look at all these groups together, as your sources do, then they all have increased rates of death from various conditions.
From this study I already posted of 3 million people it showed that the overweight and obese ALL together had an 18% increased mortality rate. Which is huge.
So if that is all you look at. One would assume you are correct.
THIS IS WHERE YOU STOPPED BY THE WAY WITH THE INFORMATION PROVIDED. YOUR LOGIC AND LINKS WENT NO FURTHER THAN THIS BASIC GENERAL ANALYSIS.
However, you can break it down further with more information. The study showed this as far as mortality rate for each category with 0 being a normal person of average weight.
Overweight -6%
Class 1 Obese -5%
Class 2 Obese 29%
Class 3 Obese 29%
So when you look closer at the data it becomes easily apparent (to anyone with a high school reading level or above) that it is in fact class 2 and class 3 obesity that represent the negative health effects referenced. Not the overweight and class 1 people. So shaming THEM into weight loss is actually detrimental to their health because they already have a lower mortality rate than the average person.
If you cannot understand that. Then you are a lost cause.