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@mattmcgorry : To read the full article, Google: "Scientific American Dr. Linda Bacon." @amee_rd @lindobacon For more info on Health At Every Size #HAES , read Dr. Linda Bacon's book by the same name and/or their book "Body Respect"). # This article is specifically about the way that body fat and health are wrongly equated with one another. And the way that the myriad of incorrect beliefs about body fat in our culture harms everyone (and especially fat people) and actually *causes* health issues. Because the fatphobic cultural beliefs around fatness run so deep, it will likely take some time to truly understand what this article is saying, and where you may be projecting your own deeply held beliefs. I encourage you to sit with it and refer back to it if necessary. And to read the books mentioned above if you truly want to understand this issue...and we all should. # This should not need to be said, but I believe that it is necessary to state plainly. While this article is about health and in some ways how to achieve better health, no person deserves to be treated in a bigoted, dehumanizing way. No matter how "healthy" or fat they are or not. To argue that they do, is simply a justification that is based in anti-fatness. To argue that upholding the stigma of anti-fatness is somehow of a benefit to *anyone*, is also to uphold bigotry. And this is also true for the "well-intentioned" ways that we perpetuate these beliefs. # And just because you wouldn't say that you "hate fat people," that doesn't mean that you haven't internalized many notions of fatphobia. Just because we may say that we don't "hate people of color," doesn't absolve us of the fact that we live in a culture where white supremacy is the norm and must be unlearned. Just bc a man may say he “doesn’t hate women," doesn't mean that he’s free from sexist beliefs and upholding sexism. Like any system of oppression, anti-fatness runs incredibly deep and requires conscious unlearning, self-examination, and acti