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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eating disorders -- including compulsive exercising -- have the highest death toll of any psychiatric illness. It is not the same as being over weight. A gym absolutely knows if someone is coming in for 6 hours a day or showing signs of compulsive exercising. And they have every right and responsibility to step in.

110 pounds may be super thin but I think with people with anorexia we're talking 80 pounds. Sure someone who is very thin could just be very thin and should be left alone but once someone gets down to emaciated -- and there is a big difference between 110 and 80 -- its another thing entirely. Gyms would step in when someone with a racing heart rate in aerobics class insisted on continuing, or if someone passed out and then got up and wanted to go on. These are private businesses and they have every right to do what they want including looking out for the health of their members.

I call BS on the whole concept of thin shaming and especially on comparing it to fat shaming. There is no way that in our culture thinness is considered shameful. And we're not talking about thinness anyway. I'm thin (and have suffered nothing because of it. Get real). Eating disorders are illnesses and are different.

And by the way, there are stories of gyms stepping in and saving lives. Gyms are particularly well placed to inquire and help someone with an eating disorder.[/quote]

Are there that many 80 lb emaciated women at the gym (each and every random gym), fainting during every aerobics class? I figured OP was referring to 110 lb women, who must be more common.[/quote]

OP here. You figured wrong. Everyone know the difference between thin and anorexic and anybody who regularly attends a gym knows exactly what I'm talking about.

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