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"Diet and weight loss culture is not body positive because it is rooted in the belief that fat bodies, bodies that do not conform to the very narrow beauty standards (thin, white, able-bodied, cis-gendered), are wrong, unattractive and/or unhealthy. Diet and weight loss culture simply does not respect the broad diversity…

All of this is dangerous thinking. These people are triggered by anything.

What medical tests are we talking? Because my medical tests came back fine too. So am I healthy? No. Just by being a smoker I am unhealthy. Just like just by being overweight I am also not healthy. Also, I didn't say anything about bigger people being sad or depressed.

Have you given me anything to back up ANYTHING you've claimed? Get out of here lol

How is being overweight being in a state of physical well being? AND mental?

Sure lol no one is 100% in complete health.

Whatever you say girl. You're completely missing the point. By your definition of healthy an overweight person can't be healthy either but you do you.

1. I said I had an x ray at least. I know he said scan. I haven't had any scans of my body and neither has he so how does he know he has absolutely no health problems associated with being overweight. 2. I was talking about metabolic health. Which is what you were talking about. Not endurance or lung capacity. 3. I am…

You just said being overweight is an unhealthy "behaviour" but being overweight isn't unhealthy?

Being overweight is not a behaviour. Being overweight is what happens when you consume too many calories. Creating excess fat which thus makes being overweight unhealthy.

Smoking makes me unhealthy. Just because it doesn't affect my health at this very moment doesn't make it healthy. Being overweight makes me unhealthy. Just because it doesn't affect my health at this very moment doesn't make it healthy.

Have you had every part of your body scanned?

No I said just because I'm metabolically healthy doesn't mean I'm healthy LOL. Smoking isn't healthy that's not what I'm saying at all. Just because I smoke that makes me unhealthy. Just because it's not causing me health issues at this very moment doesn't mean it's healthy. You have it so twisted.

@Need2Exerc1se "I can prove it wrong. (see post above). I was overweight and overfat. I had regular checkups with my doctor and had zero health problems according to all medical tests (which at my age are many)." How do you know you were healthy? Medical tests. Which is what I said I had done.

That was a reply to the man who said a scan of my lungs would should measurable damage. I am metabolically healthy. I have no health problems.

Have you had your whole body scanned? I've had my chest X rayed at least and no problems there.

First source- "for some time now there is no standard set of criteria to define metabolic health, thus impacting on the accurate estimation of the prevalence of the MHO phenotype and making comparability between studies difficult. Furthermore prospective studies tracking the development of cardiometabolic disease and…

Because I literally just got blood tests for everything under the sun. How do you know you are metabolically healthy?

I smoke cigarettes and I am metabolically healthy. I have absolutely no health conditions associated with smoking cigarettes. I am also overweight and metabolically healthy. Smoking cigarettes increases health risks and so does extra body fat. Both unhealthy.

Can you source this graph please? I'd just like to read the one who made it explain it. And also the graph shows that with higher BMI comes higher health risks. That's what I'm saying. This graph doesn't prove the study faulty.

No not everyone in the healthy weight range is healthy. But if they are unhealthy it has nothing to do with how much they weigh. Same as obese people, they can be unhealthy and it could have nothing to do with their weight. But there are increased health risks that come with just having too much fat on your body. So…

But if they were in a normal weight range would they be more healthy?

If someone is underweight can they be healthy?

Less health risks.

By having less fat on your body you will be more healthy then you were. Where are your tens of thousands of examples falsifying this claim?

Sources?

Was it proven wrong?

Things can be proven wrong.

Oh. My gahd. I already said I misspoke. Right now there is more evidence than none saying you cannot be healthy and overweight. Until that is proven wrong then that's all we have. There is no evidence at all saying you can be healthy and overweight. Being overweight is inherently unhealthy.

Okay I misspoke. This study was done over 30 years. So we're going to be waiting a while for it to be replicated. There is definitely more evidence than none saying you cannot be healthy and fat. This study was peer-reviewed and published into the International Journal of Epidemiology.