It bothers me when people claim being overweight isn't unhealthy

Of course they do, but when you’re overweight you simple get written off with „loose weight, fatass.“

I‘m not leaning in to a discussion which is based on data I don’t perfectly know, so I can only speak about my own experiences here: When you talk about eating healthy or taking care of what you eat, the answer is almost always a pitiful sigh. When you get a job interview, you get comments about whether you can do the same work as someone who weighs 100lbs less than you, even if it’s only for an office job. And if you answer that you’re as reliable as any other person, you get the stamp of desperation.

Basically you get downgraded to a lazy talking blob of fat and „willpowerlessness“.

That’s just a few examples.

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