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Sculptasquad t1_je3ksvs wrote

No. Yes.

"Weight Inclusivity: Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealizing or pathologizing of specific weights."

This is anti-science. The available data indicates that obesity raises risks of most diseases.

"Health Enhancement: Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional, and other needs."

But they want to suppress information regarding how much a healthy person should weigh.

"Respectful Care: Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities."

There is certainly a weight stigma, just like there is a smoking stigma and a concussion stigma. None of these preventable factors promote health.

"Eating for Well-being: Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control."

Hunger is a a horrible metric for healthy eating since obese people are hungrier than a healthy person. This is partly why people without discipline find it so difficult to lose weight. "But I was hungry".

"Life-Enhancing Movement: Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.”

This is cool. but the biggest intervention regarding weight loss is dietary. You can always eat more calories than you burn.

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arrozconfrijol t1_je4xdyv wrote

I hope at the very least you see that “health at every size” is not just saying people saying “I’m healthy!” no matter what size they are and the lifestyle they have. It’s a movement with specific tenets aimed at making healthy behaviors and health accessible to everyone. Specially to people who are usually treated pretty terribly by society at large, which is has dramatic consequences all around for a lot of people.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/january/fat-shaming-linked-to-greater-health-risks

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6565398/

I also encourage you to look into the complex issue of diets, and how most of them don’t work in the long term.

https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/that-diet-probably-did-not-work

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Dieting-Does-Not-Work-UCLA-Researchers-7832

A lot of people, specially people who have weight issues from a young age, spend their whole lives on and off diets, in a constant cycle of weight gain and loss that destroys their metabolisms.

This approach has the potential to avoid that, and lead to actual sustained health physical benefits and better mental health outcomes.

https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9

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