http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2173288/You-chubby-chunky-NOT-obese-How-female-scholar-challenging-super-size-stereotypes-fat-pride.html

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While obesity is considered a disease by medical experts the world over, a group of academics are contesting the issue in a show of 'fat pride'. American scholar Cat Pause, 39, is leading of a movement to reclaim the word 'fat' and remove the negative connotations surrounding it and those it is used to describe. Arguing that while euphemisms like 'curvy', 'chunky' and 'chubby' are descriptive, adjective like 'obese' and 'overweight' are loaded with suggestion that a person does not live up to standards set unfairly by society. At a conference in Wellington, New Zealand recently, Ms Pause compared the emerging field of fat studies to history and political science in terms of importance. Weighing 237lbs last time she bothered to check, Ms Pause explained to AFP: 'When people look at a fat body like mine, it tells them I'm unhealthy and that this is a diseased body. It tells them I don't ever exercise and eat nothing but junk.' But she says, some people are just bigger than others and discriminating against person based on their physical appearance is a mistake. Ms Pause's belief goes against prevailing medical opinion that obesity encourages diabetes and other related illnesses. Ms Pause keeps upbeat about her shape and in good humour has replaced the number on her bathroom scales with affirmations like 'sexy', 'hot' and 'perfect'. Between the laughs, Ms Pause has to face constant jibes about her weight. 'I barely go through a day where I'm not called something nasty on the street by a stranger,' she admitted. 'It's not the kind of people, like teenagers, that you'd expect to be [doing the] abusing. 'It's by people in business suits, by women my own age - I'm almost 40 - by people you'd expect, on the face of it, to be respectable human beings.' It is discrimination she feels should be outlawed. 'It's illegal in most countries to discriminate based on someone's sex or race, sexual orientation is becoming more protected too,' she said. 'I'd like size to become a protected class.'

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Leos @ 15/7/2012 19:44

I'm not reading that but if she's happy with her body, good for her. As long as she understands there are health risks with obesity.

She doesn't.

I posted about these fat acceptance retards back on FI. They literally want doctors to stop telling obese patients that they are obese or that anything is wrong or that they need to change anything.

They have deluded themselves into believing they are just as healthy, fit and attractive as people who aren't obese.

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Knowing that there are severe health risks with obesity, and continuing to eat shit and not exercise, is a damn fine thing.

Except for when you have a public healthcare system like America now (or soon) has.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-18876880

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about a third of adults are not doing enough physical activity, causing 5.3m deaths a year. That equates to about one in 10 deaths from diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer. Researchers said the problem was now so bad it should be treated as a pandemic. people in higher income countries were the least active with those in the UK among the worst, as nearly two-thirds of adults were judged not to be doing enough.

Wikey @ 18/7/2012 17:40

I'm glad I took running up as a hobby.

Yeah. These articles keep me motivated and make me feel better about the changes I already made. Which is one reason I read them (the other is to lol).

I could never keep up running, partly because of the weather.

I got an exercise bike about 18 months ago, and built up my tolerance over time. I watch an episode of something, takes my mind off it and makes sure I stay on it for 45 minutes.

I'm now at the point where it feels weird to NOT do it every other day. It's become habit and even if I feel like being lazy I end up doing it. I think that's the case with everything, you just need to get into the routine (which admittedly can take some time hence it's initially about willpower) then your brain REWIRES to expect it.