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This is what body acceptance should be. Making people not feel like they are worthless failures because they are obese.
Unfortunately the health-at-any-size people took that and made it to mean fat means healthy, and that couldn't be fatter from the truth.
Being fat long-term is unhealthy. Uncontestable fact. But that doesn't mean that being fat is subhuman.
Personally I'm of the belief that obesity is often a symptom of something else, usually mental health. A bad relationship with food and/or a lack of physical activity is an easy trap to fall into as a symptom of anxiety or depression, and it spirals from there. Accepting your fat body (or more accurately, feeling confident despite it) is then an important step in breaking that cycle and changing it.
[citation needed]
Would you tell a woman that her large breasts wouldn't cause back issues and not to get a breast reduction?
Why would you think the same things don't impact your knees and joints? Nobody is less than for being overweight, but talk to anyone who once was overweight / obese (im one) and they will tell you that going up stairs without being in pain / winded is definitely a signal of healthier living.
Apart from the extremely rare fringe weirdo people are not saying being fat is strictly healthier than not.
Yeah I definitely misread the post and took it from a point of they were already making that claim. I have no relevant experience or claim in that case.