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when most people first join deviantArt at a young age they usually start off posting sonic the hedgehog recolors and anime screenshots. but then there was me, making king of the hill super forms
Ugh that post has gotten me thinking about fat acceptance in a way I haven’t in years. I’ve read more studies about weight and health than probably any other topic I’ve ever researched. And every time I see someone wail about health I am just like
Did you know that in post-mortem examinations there is zero correlation between weight and levels of arteriosclerosis and related diseases found?
Did you know that people with an overweight BMI have the longest life expectancy, that those with an “ideal” and an “obese” have about the same life expectancy, and that being “underweight” raises mortality rates more than being “morbidly obese”?
Did you know that losing weight and then gaining it back is worse for your heart than remaining at the weight you started consistently?
Did you know that 95% of people who lose weight do gain it back, and there has never been a single documented weight loss program that has been demonstrated to keep the weight off for five years or more in the majority or even a significant minority of people? Like, telling people to lose weight isn’t much use if we don’t know HOW to make that happen.
Like I have read The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos and Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata and Big Fat Lies by Glenn A Gaesser (Ph.D!) And Fat!So? and several other books that I don’t own and so don’t remember all of their names I spent like four years reading every single study coming out and looking at the methodology and noting which ones had huge holes or terrible methods and which didn’t (the holes were almost always in the pro-weight-loss studies) and like
Big Fat Lies has 27 pages of bibliography. 27 pages worth of scientific citation. The book content itself is only 197 pages. That’s a page of references for every 7 pages of book. Reading the book is just reference after reference and study after study. Most of these doctors (like Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size) started out the same way. They wanted to use the scientific method to find a real weight loss program or health solution that worked and could be proven to work, and so studied everything they could about weight and fitness only to find out that we didn’t need weight loss in the first place. That all the studies calling for it were lacking or nonexistent. That weight and underlying metabolic health have very little relation. That the history of our relationship with health and obesity has little basis in fact and a LOT of basis in capitalism, politics, and fashion. No, really, the association between weight and health was first proposed by insurance companies looking for ways to charge people more by claiming risk. They also charged tall and short people more. And people with different skin colors. When they got in trouble for charging people for things they had no control over and had no bearing on their health, they set out to prove that weight was controllable and that fat was unhealthy to make money.
These are also a lot of the same people who went on to invent the President’s fitness program, so if you went to public school you probably already hate them.
Anyway, if you want a place to start reading about the issue, this article is a pretty good launching pad.
This casual rant is like a primer on weight science. Amazing. I second their book recommendations, and would add to the list Body Respect by Drs Bacon & Aphramor, Body of Truth by journalist Harriet Brown, and What’s Wrong with Fat? by UCLA professor of sociology Abigail Saguy.
man I remember that time I reblogged an anti-fatphobia post and lost a follower and reader who took the time to come into my DMs and rant about how betrayed he felt that I, who he had trusted and respected, would dare to signal boost content that made people feel like it was okay to be fat. how dare I
anyway the weightloss industry is a scam
this screams virgo
shut the fuck up. im sure jerma fucks a ton dont be calling him a virgin or whtever
Sometimes, the brain gets ugly. Thoughts were never a pretty thing to begin with, coming unannounced. So, I offer this just-as-pretty reminder.
Your F/O misses you when you’re gone, in all senses of the word.
With you, your F/O doesn’t only feel safe, they are safe. When they rest in your arms, all they feel is safety and warmth wrapped around them like the softest of blankets simply because they're listening to, being with, breathing in you. Your words bring nothing but joy to your F/O’s mind, brain humming with fulfillment when you grace them with everything from your mundane tasks to the unexpected highs and lows. You won’t break or taint your F/O, especially not when you define what an angel is to them. The day might drag on behind them, their thoughts might be like lead weights, but how could they ever drag their feet when they know you are the one at the finish line?
Without you, their world would be flavorless. Everything looks dark to your F/O when your smile isn’t there to shine a light on their days, when your comments aren’t there to wrestle a chuckle out of the dreariest nights. No matter if their descent into love started the moment they laid their eyes on you, or if it was slow and lulling, they wish only to stay with you. Why would they want anything else from this life when you teach them what it feels to love so hopelessly, so endlessly every day?
Even if your F/O had all the wishes in the world, they would never even think of using one of them to wish you away.