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Date: 2014-01-30 12:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] naath
Barging in...

I think the question "fat: healthy or not?" should be irrelevant to the question of "fat people : should we be nice to them?" (yes, yes we should).

But I don't think that asking the question "is fatness correlated with poor health" is "robbing people or their experience of their own bodies" correlation between fatness and poor health would not mean that every fat person would have poor health, but rather than fat people are more likely to have poor health, which is not at all the same thing.

Further it is not useful to say "being fat puts you at high risk of poor health; so don't be fat" unless there is a useful way to "not be fat". As yet we really don't have one of those.

It might be useful to say "being fat puts you at high risk of poor health, so we will more carefully monitor your health".
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