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(CW: anti-fatness, ED)
I was a not-that-fat kid. I became "that fat" after developing a restrictive eating disorder that destroyed my metabolism. I recovered IN SPITE OF the medical system, not w/its help, b/c of what public health says re: fat bodies.
AND IT'S ALL BULLSHIT. https://twitter.com/TheCounter/status/1352654048202252289
I was a not-that-fat kid. I became "that fat" after developing a restrictive eating disorder that destroyed my metabolism. I recovered IN SPITE OF the medical system, not w/its help, b/c of what public health says re: fat bodies.
AND IT'S ALL BULLSHIT. https://twitter.com/TheCounter/status/1352654048202252289
there is no me who isn't fat. not-fat-me is a girl who died from her ED, or the suicidality it induced. the alternative to fat me is dead me.
melissa mcewan said something a lot like this circa 2009. why weren't you listening then?
melissa mcewan said something a lot like this circa 2009. why weren't you listening then?
fat me was put on SSRIs at 14 for depression because fat girls can't be anorexic. fat me got a public health degree and learned the public health approach to "obesity" is a house of cards built on assumptions that are falsifiable and have been falsified.
the public health approach to "obesity" is a house of cards built on assumptions that are falsifiable and have been demonstrated to be false.
now with a link for the folks who can't comprehend lived experience without supporting citations. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018772888
now with a link for the folks who can't comprehend lived experience without supporting citations. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018772888
the public health approach to "obesity" is eugenics. period. and nowhere is that more evident than when we talk about children and their bodies.
public health researchers and orgs will really put their whole chest behind campaigns like "strong4life" and then turn around and ask "why are fat people so anxious and depressed and traumatized?" https://everydayfeminism.com/2013/02/whats-wrong-with-fat-shaming/
this thread ends with the essay I wish every single person in public health would read, by @lesleykinzel:
"You cannot make people healthy by coercion, shame, or stress."
http://blog.twowholecakes.com/2010/09/your-playstation-made-you-fat-and-other-reductive-narratives-our-problem-with-public-health/
"You cannot make people healthy by coercion, shame, or stress."
http://blog.twowholecakes.com/2010/09/your-playstation-made-you-fat-and-other-reductive-narratives-our-problem-with-public-health/
actually, this thread ends by telling people to follow @marquisele, who first shared the quoted thread.
