Why is the internet mad at obesity being classified as a disease? The body has an optimal standard of health (hence healthy), and falling out of it is unhealthy. Wouldn't people be happier at obesity being classified as a disease? That way, there is none of this blindness toward obese being healthy.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not screaming skinny is healthy. But I'm saying usually. obesity means that you are unhealthy or are well on the way to unhealthiness, leading to problems such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and other things that no one wants.
Nobody is saying that the person who is obese is a disease. When you see a person with cancer, is that person cancer? Are we calling that person cancer? No, that person has cancer. Let's do what we can to fix it. Same thing with obesity; your metabolism and connection to food (physically and psychologically) has been screwed up somewhere, and we have to fix it. No, it's not fat shaming, and yes, health at any size (HAES) but there is a range for healthy sizes.
I'm not fat shaming. I've been shamed for my weight my entire life. Nobody believed me when I said that I actually wasn't eating all that much.
You see, I have PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) with associated insulin resistance. What that means is that for my body to process sugar, it takes more insulin as I am not sensitive to it anymore, and that extra insulin causes an increase in fat storage, a decrease in fat breakdown, and an increase in male hormones (among other things). That makes sense - insulin was a caveman hormone; we needed to store everything as fat when we weren't sure of our next meal. But now....now we don't. So now, people like me suffer consequences.
Classifying obesity as a disease is to help, not to hurt.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not screaming skinny is healthy. But I'm saying usually. obesity means that you are unhealthy or are well on the way to unhealthiness, leading to problems such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and other things that no one wants.
Nobody is saying that the person who is obese is a disease. When you see a person with cancer, is that person cancer? Are we calling that person cancer? No, that person has cancer. Let's do what we can to fix it. Same thing with obesity; your metabolism and connection to food (physically and psychologically) has been screwed up somewhere, and we have to fix it. No, it's not fat shaming, and yes, health at any size (HAES) but there is a range for healthy sizes.
I'm not fat shaming. I've been shamed for my weight my entire life. Nobody believed me when I said that I actually wasn't eating all that much.
You see, I have PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) with associated insulin resistance. What that means is that for my body to process sugar, it takes more insulin as I am not sensitive to it anymore, and that extra insulin causes an increase in fat storage, a decrease in fat breakdown, and an increase in male hormones (among other things). That makes sense - insulin was a caveman hormone; we needed to store everything as fat when we weren't sure of our next meal. But now....now we don't. So now, people like me suffer consequences.
Classifying obesity as a disease is to help, not to hurt.
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