Suggesting the contrary seems silly, considering it encourages "positivity." But when we look at "positivity" more so as "acceptance" (which some explicitly proclaim it as), what is the likelihood that the acceptance of larger physicality, and thus, an indesire to change that quality, results in a happy and fulfilling life?
Would the quality of physical aspects of their life be hampered? Like hobbies, or even menial tasks like grocery shopping or yard work?
What percentage of the time will these people find a spouse who is physically attracted to them?
What is the impact on the quality of life for these individuals?
Is the body positivity movement actually setting up people to live happy and fulfilling lives?
I myself am not categorically largely built; it's just not in my genes. I think what the main aim is for people to come to an acceptance of their unique bodies; because, really, the only time people have to worry is when they can't perform daily tasks like cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc. or even simple tasks like putting on their shoes or shirt. Whether a person feels themselves happy or fulfilled is up to them. as some people absolutely rock their curves whilst others would just want to hide away, forever. Percentage is hard to calculate in such cases. There are people who find these body types appealing as much as, if not more, than other types, it's just not commonly spoken about or advertised in some societies as attractive. For example, Hawaiians are more likely to be attracted to persons who have more fat as in their culture it could signal abundance, happiness, etc. So it's subjective. I can't say what the impact is as it would depend on whoever they are with and how they see their bodies.
The idea is to stop equating appearance with health. Many fat people are healthy (eat healthy, exercise, have perfectly functional lives), and many average-weight people are unhealthy. It's not bad to be fat. It's bad to be unhealthy. The ven diagram on that isn't even close to a perfect circle.
Body acceptance means someone stops trying to change their weight to be "normal" and starts trying to change their life to be healthy, even if that just means changing how they see/think about themself.
I agree. Body genetics amongst other factors determines what's considered healthy fat to muscle to water to bone density ratios. Also, not all fat is bad fat in all circumstances. People need even the societal considered bad fat for bodily processes as much as they need muscle and cholesterol to help their bodies generate heat, maintain bone placement, create hormones, etc. Without an acceptable threshold of weight compromised of fat, muscle, water, and bone density, etc. veers on unhealthy BMI, depending on racial capability to sustain a lower BMI; Some people can sustain it and others can sustain a higher BMI. Being overweight is not equivalent to being fat. Everybody is technically comprised of some percentage of various types of fat, the only question is how much of each and is it helping the person stay healthy or compromising their health? For example, the typical caucasian's minimum body fat ratio on average is dependent on race, lifestyle, etc. so if 21% is bare minimum then there is a sweet spot until there is too much fat. Similarly, for mongoloids, their threshold could be lower, say 19% bare minimum with a shorter range of body fat permissible. All this means is that people have adapted to store, lose, etc. fat and muscle to varying degrees based off these environmental adaptations. Caucasians are more likely to carry the fat and in some sense look stockier because, in some regions, specifically, in Europe, that are much colder on average, calories have to come from somewhere and its usually fat and not glycogen (dietary glucose).
A person can be skinny and unhealthy and obese and unhealthy. Fat is an ambiguous and nonsensicle word to the medical community as far as maintaining patient health goes. If your doctor tells you that your weight in fat is the primary cause of your healthy problem, I'd say listen to them, however, if your doctor tells you that it's your weight that's causing knee strain, also listen and get tested to see how much of that weight is actually fat and not weight in bone density or muscle or other factors. Similary, if your doctor is telling you that you need to gain weight, then it is likely, that you need more certain types of fat, muscle, etc. listen to them and gain as much as you are able. Nutritionists, allergists, and gym trainers can help considerably as they would know and see the results of what your body is actually doing and how it reacts to certain foods with whatever health condition a person is suffering from.
Dieticians are usually for people who have very specific needs for sports performance, specific health conditions, etc. Sometimes genetics in part affects people to have certain dietary restrictions that are best overseen by a dietician alone or in tandem with a nutritionist. Integrative medicine has come a long way in offering people options to further their health to be sustainably healthy rather than just for appearance's sake.
@osmanthus You're right that health is complicated and individual. People shouldn't be shamed for looking unhealthy, especially when that kind of appearance has been proven to be mostly irrelevant to indicate health. Unless you have access to someone's personal medical information or they directly tell you about their health, that shouldn't really be any of your business anyway. You don't know them, and anything you have to say they've probably already heard it a hundred times. Don't try to be strangers' doctors (in general), it's a bad and rude idea.
This also doesn't account for sex differences, as well. Men on average may be able to sustain lower levels of abdominal fat than a woman, because fat was designed to be higher in women for birthing and to sustain a generally lower body core temperature. A man can survive on 16% fat and veer on looking shredded and sustain that longer than a woman can, usually.
Mind you, most men can't sustain and ought not to sustain a shredded state. It may compromise things like sperm health and also mental health, otherwise. Weight loss diets can harm certain women on certain medications, too, as much as the woman who has normal BMI and fat to muscle ratios.
A certain amount of fat on a man actually helps their libido and sperm count, so going over or below this sweet spot oftentimes mean either or affected sex drives.
Generally, too, if a body is yo-yo-ing up and down between high and low BMI frequently it oftentimes harms the body in the long run. Unless your body type and genetic pre-disposition and medical conditions and mutations permit, most people are better off sustaining within the sweet spot of fat and BMI and not veering to far off from it.
@osmanthus just FYI I would look up the bmi scale and how good of an indicator of health it actually is. You may be surprised where it really came from.
Lower fat and weight in women can contribute to problems with fertility and periods, as well. So, no, don't follow fad diets and low-fat this and that without first consulting your doctor and nutritionist. Leave those to people who need to follow it. If a person needs a higher-fat diet, follow that instead. Always consult with GP and nutritionist and gym trainer if you have specific health goals in general.
The problem is that people are not adequately educated on their bodies in this respect. They follow things like TikTok influencers and fake tit and ass people and go on these dangerous diets and work outs and what not and end up harmed as a result. No legitimate doctor would ever prescribe a patient undergo these measures if they were otherwise healthy. It's best to stop listening to these social media instagram people about how to eat and diet as every body is truly unique and different. One size doesn't fit all. Not everybody's body reacts to the same workout, regimen, etc. especially if you're mixed race.
I'm not saying these influencers don't have good intentions, either. Most do but they also lack the adequate medical knowledge to give advice; they neglect genetic and other factors that produce the results, as well. A disclaimer to an influencer to see a GP and nutritionist at minimum is warranted but many of them don't even do that.
At times even the influencers unknowingly compromise their health just to look good in a mirror. Explains why some supposed fit women and men have died from heart attacks and a slew of other conditions.
Not everybody can be vegan or raw vegan or carnivore of piscetarian or vegetarian or octo-lacto, etc. everybody has an ideal diet and some have optimal diets but everybody mostly has at least one detrimental diet and it can be the one that's deemed healthy to others and in most of society that they live and some need to take supplements and some need pre and pro biotics more than others. So, if, in theory, it's healthy for people people to be vegans in a particular society, then there is always going to be at least a handful of people who can't cut the mustard and have to be carnivores or other. Its the way nature made people to be different so that they survive.
Which is, personally, I never take stock all these diet wars people have. Let people be. Whatever works for them, let it be. If a person has to be vegan, so be it, similarly, too, if a person has to be a carnivore, so be it. These diet wars for religious or other reasons, fundamentally, and mostly, are silly and unfounded in the actual scientific literature. Granted, yes, there is some evidence that some religious and cultural diets do work for that specific diaspora of people and even outside it but again it isn't advisable to follow suit unless one knows the diet they are on suits them.
Nobody has to eat each other's heads off because they aren't vegan or aren't carnivore or this and that yet we see all the time the ignorance of people many times over cause a row over such things.
I second this. Nobody ought to shame other people for the way their body is and nobody needs to act as if a doctor to the person, unless they are the doctor. Granted, there are well-meaning people, so if they see, for example, that a person might have vericose veins or other then they may see a their doctor about that. Some medical conditions when not spotted by other people often go undiagnosed or unsees and fester, so, if there is something amiss then it may be time to see the GP.
It's not fool proof, for sure. I no doubt that for most it may help but again, like many medical methods, there are only so many things one can investigate to narrow down possibilities to some anomolies. Another medical tool amongst an arsenal of others is all that is.
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