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

Please read my comment again. I didn’t say you can “be healthy at 400 pounds,” I said you can be 400 and engage in healthy behaviors: like eating better, working out, etc. And even if you don’t lose 200 pounds, your health will probably improve. It’s not too far from that the study in this link is showing.

Health at any size is exactly what the study says! The healthy lifestyle changes created positive outcomes, even if the weight was gained back.

Heal at every size simply means that “health” and “healthy behaviors” are available to people no matter what their size is. You can be 400 pounds and start a workout routine, you can quit smoking, you can eat foods that make you feel nourished and good, you can go to a therapist and heal your eating disorder, you can meditate, you can practice self love, etc. And by focusing on things other than weight loss you can get to a healthier place without the psychological damage that focusing on only numbers on a scale can hace.

But everyone is different and everyone’s issues with food are different. Some people thrive on being bullied and proving people wrong, some people are very very hurt by that and it has the opposite effect. Health at every size provides a more gentle and holistic approach to working towards a healthier body. No matter what size that body is.

Have you read any books on “health at any size”? Do you know what it’s basic ideas are?

This is a better version of a law they tried to pass before, that would have left the government in charge of a bunch of dolphin that have never known life in the wild. As a Mexican, I would not trust the current Mexican government to care for the dolphins. They did this with circus animals and it was a disaster.