Reply to I mean - do any of you just choose quality of life vs. endless watching of food?

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "I mean - do any of you just choose quality of life vs. endless watching of food?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I just opened up Facebook and Tracy Brown, RD popped up. She is one I would recommend following. Once you fall in with a few good people, you start getting recommendations for others.

If anyone is interested in the intersectionality of body freedom and things like racism, sexism, ableism, I highly recommend Sonya Renee Taylor. I had never seen it in that light before, and lots of people scoff at intersectional concepts anyway. But once you get it, you can't unsee it. Bodies are marginalized because they are Black, or have disabilities, or are female, or are Trans, etc etc. The policing of the body contributes to that.

I am NOT comparing being fat with being Black in terms of marginalization. No one is shooting a fat white woman at a traffic stop. I am saying that as long as bodies are ranked on a hierarchy, the groups that are marginalized will continue to suffer because of it. And you would be shocked (or maybe not) at the stats on how body size impacts people's opportunities in life, and how much worse it is for women vs men, BIPOC vs white people, etc. People think "Well, you can change your body size." Yep, there is lots of information on how to actively change it. And there is almost NO proof you can keep it changed. I have been stunned by the research on this. Asking someone to lose weight is not that big of a task. Asking stay at that smaller body size for 5 or more years is virtually impossible. It is on par with asking someone to change their height meaningfully through stretching exercises. I know that sounds ludicrous. It is true though. We know how to lose weight. There is no scientific evidence we can keep it off. And there is lots of scientific evidence that attempting to do so ends up with people at larger and larger body sizes, negative impacts from losing and gaining weight, worse physical and mental health, and social isolation. It is net negative to push dieting on people.

Christy Harrison is another good one to follow. She lays out a lot of this science, which is truly mind boggling that "common sense" is at odds with what the science shows. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics