http://healthateverysizeblog.org/2011/10/11/the-haes-files-hypocrisy-of-obesity-war-exposed-the-haes-peace-movement-makes-inroads/ The Association for Size Diversity and Health Wed, 22 May 2013 00:19:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://healthateverysizeblog.org/2011/10/11/the-haes-files-hypocrisy-of-obesity-war-exposed-the-haes-peace-movement-makes-inroads/#comment-398 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:37:59 +0000 http://healthateverysizeblog.wordpress.com/?p=290#comment-398 I’m not sure I really understood what you are trying to say here. But when you say “Obesity isn’t healthy. Neither is starving, binge eating, purging…” notice that there is a big difference in these: “Obesity” is a physical attribute, while the rest of the stuff you mentioned are behaviors. One thing that comes to mind is that we can change behaviors – which may or may not result in weight change – but we don’t have any evidence of a successful method to change weight directly, at least not in any sustained way for the majority of people – and we know that prescribing it results in a lot of damage. That plays into why we encourage a focus on supporting behavior change, as oppose to a physical attribute. Also, I don’t feel comfortable with the statement “Obesity isn’t healthy” anyway – there are plenty of people living long healthy lives in “obese” bodies. We also know that “obese” people live longer than “non-obese” people with a wide range of diseases. There are other issues that seem to play a much bigger role in defining health.

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