TW: fatphobia
Being fat and having gained weight does not mean you’re “closer to digging your grave”.

1. You can be healthy at a wide ranges of weights by implementing healthy habits

2. Thin and fat people can get the same diseases

3. Having a higher BMI actually means you’re less likely to die from diseases than thin people (ie fat person has better chances of surviving a heart attack than a thin person)

4. Weight gain is not inherently bad and weight loss is not inherently good

5. Shaming someone by saying they’re going to die because they’re fat just increases their shame, guilt and increases their allostatic load and is detrimental to their health

6. Shame makes people eat more. You can’t shame (most) people into weight loss

Ressources:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070620073447.htm

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/... href=" https://www.jabfm.org/content/25/1/9.short

https://www.jabfm.org/content/2... href=" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033062013001552

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a... href=" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21760636/ ">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21760636/...

Obese Heart Attack Patients Are More Likely To Survive After Treatment Than Normal Weight Patients

Obese and very obese patients have a lower risk of dying after they have been treated for heart attacks than do normal weight patients, according to new research. Researchers found that amongst...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070620073447.htm

Stop telling people they’re going to die because they’re fat. It’s not helping them and it’s actually harming them