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[quote=Anonymous]For all the people saying some version of “anti-diet culture is unhealthy!”

1) There is no diet that has been proven to reliably remove and maintain more than 10% of your body weight.

2) The BMI is a completely unscientific made-up number.

3) All the evidence that being “fat” is bad for your health is either correlational, or exaggerated.

So if we don’t know that being fat is necessarily bad for you, AND we don’t know how to make you thin without surgery or medications that both have serious side effects (and oh-by-the-way typically don’t work long-term anyway), then yes.  ANY approach to food that emphasizes BMI or weight as a primary goal is bad.  Because we absolutely know that yo-yo dieting and eating disorders are VERY bad for your health.

So accepting that your body can be healthy at any size and then focusing on scientifically meaningful definitions of health such as resting heart rate, blood pressure, flexibility, endurance and strength, etc. as the focus of your goals for your body is healthy.  Deciding that you can only be “healthy” at X weight and then ruining your actual health because you need to lose weight more than you need to meet any of those other benchmarks is bad for you, and carrying that attitude into the world and treating people like you can see their health and worthiness in their external body is bad for the world.[/quote]

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