#Repost @fat_therapist (@get_repost)・・・Instead of freaking out of the ‘promotion of obesit

#Repost @fat_therapist (@get_repost)・・・Instead of freaking out of the ‘promotion of obesity’ how about we turn our attention towards how weight loss is seen as the HOLY GRAIL for stunning health and how this belief can be harmful. Hurt your toe? Lose weight. Throat infection? Lose weight. Poor sex life? Lose weight. Depressed? Lose weight. Weight loss isn’t a ticket to immortality. Weight doesn’t have to change at all for health. Even if you’re 'really fat’. As long as we fixate on weight being a marker for 'health’ we are missing the mark - having affordable access to high quality foods, access to a weightbias-free healthcare, an environment where movement is enjoyable and not an obligation (for all sizes and weights), access to affordable mental health, all of these things improve health without weight needing to change. It’s based in science too. I have listed the ref’s below.‍References:Bombak, A. (2014). Obesity, health at every size, and public health policy. American journal of public health, 104(2), e60-e67..Campos, P. (2011). Does fat kill? A critique of the epidemiological evidence. In Debating Obesity (pp. 36-59). Palgrave Macmillan, London..Wildman, R. P., Muntner, P., Reynolds, K., McGinn, A. P., Rajpathak, S., Wylie-Rosett, J., & Sowers, M. R. (2008). The obese without cardiometabolic risk factor clustering and the normal weight with cardiometabolic risk factor clustering: prevalence and correlates of 2 phenotypes among the US population (NHANES 1999-2004). Archives of internal medicine, 168(15), 1617-1624.. #psychology #healthateverysize #mentalhealth #obesity #fatacceptance #health #weightloss #dietculture #dietician #intuitiveeating #therapy #psychologist #arttherapy #bopo #bodypositivity #chronicillness #weightstigma -- source link

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