I can write it off because it isn't a fact (http://kateharding.net/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/).
You, like so many other people, are conflating weight with health and exercise. Surprise, surprise, there are fat people in the world. Not people who are lazy and don't exercise, though some of us don't, but people who are fat in the same way that some people are tall and some people are dark skinned. It's just a variety of body.
Exercise? I get plenty of exercise every day because I walk everywhere. I've never owned a car and I never have. I used to walk five miles to work, to the bewilderment of a skinny coworker who was amazed because she barely had the energy to get off the couch. I can point you to a blog of a triathlete (biking, swimming, and running) who's fatter than I am... and probably fitter than you are, by any metric that's not "LOL FAT."
Adjusting diet or exercise to make a wholesale change in your body size doesn't work for most people over the long term. It's not just "calories in vs. calories used." Your body knows what size it's supposed to be, and while you can control what you eat and how you exercise, it controls all the other dials and if you're using more calories than you need to maintain what it (not society) thinks is your ideal weight, it goes into starvation mode. Hence why 95% of people who try to lose weight gain it back after seeing that they have to exercise/diet more and more just to maintain, and most of them gain back even more.
And no, I'm not saying I have "a glandular disorder." It's not a disorder. It's simply part of natural human biodiversity. And a helpful trait to be in the gene pool. Who dies first in famine? The people whose bodies are optimized for burning energy rather than keeping it... i.e, the skinny people.
Fat helps protect your body from infection and shock. Fat people are more likely to survive a cardiac event. Fat people can hang on longer in a condition where the body is forced to rely on its natural stores. If a person's body is most comfortable in the "fat" range, how can you say they're not taking care of it?
If you give your body the food that it needs and the exercise it needs, it will stay within the range that you're predisposed towards. Some people might be able to skooch the number up by seriously mistreating themselves. Some people might be able to skooch the number down... also by seriously mistreating themselves. But because we've arbitrarily decided that thin == healthy, we ignore all the damage the latter group is doing and blame the problems they have late in life on the fact that they're overweight, not the fact that they're yo-yoing between states.
And before you say "diabetes" or "blood pressure" or "cholesterol"... what's going on inside your blood's a separate matter entirely from the composition of your body mass outside of them. Those things correlate to diet and exercise problems, which people automatically assume you can gauge by looking at body weight.
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You, like so many other people, are conflating weight with health and exercise. Surprise, surprise, there are fat people in the world. Not people who are lazy and don't exercise, though some of us don't, but people who are fat in the same way that some people are tall and some people are dark skinned. It's just a variety of body.
Exercise? I get plenty of exercise every day because I walk everywhere. I've never owned a car and I never have. I used to walk five miles to work, to the bewilderment of a skinny coworker who was amazed because she barely had the energy to get off the couch. I can point you to a blog of a triathlete (biking, swimming, and running) who's fatter than I am... and probably fitter than you are, by any metric that's not "LOL FAT."
Adjusting diet or exercise to make a wholesale change in your body size doesn't work for most people over the long term. It's not just "calories in vs. calories used." Your body knows what size it's supposed to be, and while you can control what you eat and how you exercise, it controls all the other dials and if you're using more calories than you need to maintain what it (not society) thinks is your ideal weight, it goes into starvation mode. Hence why 95% of people who try to lose weight gain it back after seeing that they have to exercise/diet more and more just to maintain, and most of them gain back even more.
And no, I'm not saying I have "a glandular disorder." It's not a disorder. It's simply part of natural human biodiversity. And a helpful trait to be in the gene pool. Who dies first in famine? The people whose bodies are optimized for burning energy rather than keeping it... i.e, the skinny people.
Fat helps protect your body from infection and shock. Fat people are more likely to survive a cardiac event. Fat people can hang on longer in a condition where the body is forced to rely on its natural stores. If a person's body is most comfortable in the "fat" range, how can you say they're not taking care of it?
If you give your body the food that it needs and the exercise it needs, it will stay within the range that you're predisposed towards. Some people might be able to skooch the number up by seriously mistreating themselves. Some people might be able to skooch the number down... also by seriously mistreating themselves. But because we've arbitrarily decided that thin == healthy, we ignore all the damage the latter group is doing and blame the problems they have late in life on the fact that they're overweight, not the fact that they're yo-yoing between states.
And before you say "diabetes" or "blood pressure" or "cholesterol"... what's going on inside your blood's a separate matter entirely from the composition of your body mass outside of them. Those things correlate to diet and exercise problems, which people automatically assume you can gauge by looking at body weight.
Not true. Not true at all.