Episode 27 - Is Fat-Positivity Anti-Health?
Is embracing your body just an excuse to give up on your health? Is fat positivity or body positivity advocating for people to be unhealthy? What do you say to a fat person who is unhealthy due to their weight? I answer all these questions and a listener question in this episode. Plus a Covid-19 fat health update. CW: mention of the O words throughout.
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IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL HEAR:
Health is one of the biggest barriers that people getting on board with loving their fat bodies and there's a lot of confusion around that. Let me clear that in this episode.
There is no evidence that people in larger bodies or with higher BMI have a higher risk of getting COVID 19.
Weight stigma hurts your physical health and mental health.
It is okay to promote fat positivity or body positivity when someone is unhealthy. I discuss this thoroughly in this podcast.
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Send a question to the show: https://forms.gle/bzCgJsLpyyqYShF49
Covid-19 Does Not Discriminate By Body Weight: https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-does-not-discriminate-by-body-weight/
How and Why Weight Stigma Drives the Obesity ‘Epidemic’ and Harms Health: BMC Med 16, 123 Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. ET Al. (2018): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
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