In discussions about health, why do we have to have phrases like, “Fat people need to exercise and eat healthy,” ? Aren’t conversations about health applicable to all individual’s, not just the fat ones?
Hello! My name is Starsha. I'm 33, a wife, a mother, and a graduate student in counseling psychology.
I believe that fat people are more than just the fat they carry. They are more than the stereotyped image of the fat person who is lazy and eats all day. They have lives and families. Yet they seem to be open targets for public shame and humiliation. It seems that so many people are all too willing to poke fun at someone who is fat because of some preconceived notion that all fat people choose to be that way. Just because fat is so obvious. It cannot be hidden. It can't be tucked away within ourselves or stuffed in a box and stored under the bed. It can never be a secret.
I'm pro-fat acceptance because I am pro-human rights. Fat people have a right to feel comfortable in their own skin. They have a right to leave their houses without shame or fear of being mocked. Other people do not have to like it, but they certainly do not have a right to make someone feel less than human because of it.
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“Height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) were assessed in a sample of 1974 monozygotic and 2097 dizygotic male twin pairs. Concordance rates for different degrees of overweight were twice as high for monozygotic twins as for dizygotic twins. Classic twin methods estimated a high heritability for height, weight, and BMI, both at age 20 years (.80,.78, and.77, respectively) and at a 25-year follow-up (.80,.81, and.84, respectively). Height, weight, and BMI were highly correlated across time, and a path analysis suggested that the major part of that covariation was genetic. These results are similar to those of other twin studies of these measures and suggest that human fatness is under substantial genetic control. “
(JAMA 1986;256:51-54)
JAMA. 1986;256(1):51-54. doi:10.1001/jama.1986.03380010055024.
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We examined the contributions of genetic factors and the family environment to human fatness in a sample of 540 adult Danish adoptees who were selected from a population of 3580 and divided into four weight classes: thin, median weight, overweight, and obese. There was a strong relation between the weight class of the adoptees and the body-mass index of their biologic parents — for the mothers, P<0.0001; for the fathers, P<0.02. There was no relation between the weight class of the adoptees and the body-mass index of their adoptive parents. Cumulative distributions of the body-mass index of parents showed similar results; there was a strong relation between the body-mass index of biologic parents and adoptee weight class and no relation between the index of adoptive parents and adoptee weight class. Furthermore, the relation between biologic parents and adoptees was not confined to the obesity weight class, but was present across the whole range of body fatness — from very thin to very fat. We conclude that genetic influences have an important role in determining human fatness in adults, whereas the family environment alone has no apparent effect. (N Engl J Med 1986; 314:193–8.)
N Engl J Med 1986; 314:193-198January 23, 1986DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198601233140401
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I hate it when people take other people’s works of art and defile it to be hateful. This work of art is from Leonard Nemoy’s, The Full Body Project.
Leonard is very disappointed in you.
Source: jaiunearaigneeauplafond2 months ago
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(to whomever altered this art… because I don’t know for sure who did) I seriously doubt that you asked Tomas Kucerovsky if you could alter his piece entitled “Wrong Century”… but then again I seriously doubt that you even care. You were probably too busy thinking about how “absolutely hilarious” this fat shaming defacement was going to be to even consider the consequences. Congratulations on this fine example of assholery.
Here is the piece in its original glory… the way it was meant to be
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This is Thin Privilege: sourcedumal: Get to the Source: Let’s make something...
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Get to the Source: Let’s make something clear
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Fat folks do not deny that exercise and healthy eating are positive contributors to health.
We know this.
What we do not agree with?
Clinicians and their prejudice causing…
When your doctor refuses to treat a suspected gall bladder problem because “You need to lose weight anyway. Come see me when you can’t eat anything” you kind of get a different message of what healthy means. I was throwing up daily and had severe diarrhea and he refused to treat me, but doggone it… I’d be thinner. How is that advocating a healthier me?
Turns out I had a food allergy and it wasn’t my gall bladder at all. Finally figured it out when my face and throat started swelling and I got hives. Good thing we had benedryl with us.
This is part of the reason why I am not a fan of western medicine… not to mention it masks the symptoms and doesn’t treat the freaking cause. I have plenty of stories but they can wait for some other day.
Source: sourcedumal6 months ago
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I made this for anybody who wants to use it in the appropriate circumstance. Enjoy!
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