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[+] [email protected] -8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You can be fat without eating too much and it is okay to be fat.

For some people being fat is like being red-haired, just genetics and for others it might be caused by illness. In all cases, fat people still deserve respect.

I say this because stupid myths about and prejudice against fat people cause a lot of harm and even death.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So does being fat though,

Excess fat lives in your tissues and puts more strain on your body.

This is never good.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That is a myth - for many people, trying to lose weight is counter productive to living a healthy life.

Sometimes sick people are/get fat and sometimes being fat can strain the body. But trying to make your body thinner than it wants to be is also associated with strain on the body.

I am not trying to say, that fatness and health are totally unrelated, but the correlation is not as important as our culture makes it out to be.

This article explains it quite nicely.

https://www.science.org/content/article/obesity-doesn-t-always-mean-ill-health-here-s-what-scientists-are-learning

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are such cases, yes. The vast majority of fat people I know personally however are fat because they sit at an office job all day while having KFC for lunch everyday. No matter how you spin it, this is extremely unhealthy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

An unhealthy lifestyle can cause you to get fat but being fat doesn't necessarily mean you live an unhealthy lifestyle.

The focus should be on the lifestyle and not on how people look.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Fat doesn't develop without being fed. You can't get fat if you use up the energy you eat. There might be unfavorable genetics but people are still fat because they ate more calories than they burn. Everything else is just a pathetic excuse.

[–] Subverb 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I also thought it odd that the strip had such a nice setup for a crude fat joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Haven't seen many Cyanide and Happiness comics, right?