Can You Be Strong, Fit and Healthy at 300 Pounds?
If a woman weighs more than most NFL linemen, could she ever be strong, fit and healthy? A weight of 300 pounds is a lot even for a six foot man. The question of whether [...]
Medical Conditions that Can Be Missed Due to Obesity
Obesity doesn’t just cause serious disease; it also impairs the detection of serious medical conditions. This isn’t about a physician mistakenly assuming that a patient’s symptoms are being caused by her obesity, and hence, “missing” [...]
How Dangerous Is Back Fat? 5 Ways It Can Harm You
So just how harmful is excess back fat? There are five ways it can hurt you, including two ways it can lead to your death. […]
Is It Harder for Doctors to Do Office Exams on Obese Patients?
The health dangers of obesity get much media coverage, but what of the mechanical difficulties that doctors have when performing exams hands-on in the office? Physicians rely heavily on the ability of their fingers to [...]
Is an Obese Woman Fit Because She Takes Care of a Toddler?
Obese model Tess Holliday once said in an interview that she was physically fit because she was able to take care of a toddler. […]
Morbidly Obese COVID Survivor Feels Fat Shamed by Hospital Staff
A morbidly obese COVID survivor has accused frontline heroes of fat shaming when she was in the ER and then COVID unit. […]
Is a Thin Body a Risk Factor for Gestational Diabetes?
Does the fact that even thin women can get gestational diabetes mean that low body weight is a risk factor? […]
Does Doing the Splits Mean a Morbidly Obese Woman Is Fit?
Have you seen a morbidly obese woman doing the splits and were amazed? […]
Is It Okay to Eat a Lot of Junk Food if You’re on a Statin?
Are you now on a statin drug and wonder if it’s okay to indulge in a lot of your favorite junk foods? Will a statin undo the harm of all that sugar and fat? [...]
How to Track Calories if You’re Obese or Overweight
Here's how to track calories if your weight is in the obese range. Calorie tracking can be your best friend if you're ready to lose a lot of weight and keep it off. For whom [...]
Can Fat Be Healthy just Because Thin People Get Heart Attacks?
When a superstar influencer gets an Instagram comment of “Obesity isn’t healthy,” defensive followers post back, “Thin people die of heart attacks all the time.” […]
Is “Obese” a Medical Term or a Fat Shaming Slur?
The latest in the fact-denying movement is that “obesity” is an insulting word and should not even be used by doctors as a medical term. […]
Ask Your Doctor if Obesity Is Right for You
If obese people can be fit and healthy, then why don’t doctors ever advise their normal-weight patients to pack on some pounds? […]
10 Things Obese People Blame Their Pain on Other than Weight
Many obese women in the “healthy at any size” camp claim to be healthy and feel great. But is this actually an issue of being habituated to aches and pains and not really knowing what [...]
Yes, You CAN Tell a Person’s Health Only By Their Size
If we can’t tell a person’s health by their size, does this mean a 600 pound person can be healthy? Does it mean a 75 pound woman can be healthy? […]
Angie J. of “600 Pound Life” Makes Jeanne Look Like an Angel
Just when you thought Jeanne took the cake (no pun intended) for the Nasty Award on “My 600 Pound Life,” Angie J. comes along & makes mincemeat out of her. Poor Daisy, Angie Johns’ granddaughter. [...]
What Causes High Blood Pressure in Skinny Adults?
There’s a simple reason why many thin people have high blood pressure, but this reason is no excuse for obese people to deny the dangers of excess weight. […]
Fat & Healthy for How Long? Obesity Thickens Heart in Young Adults
If you consider yourself healthy despite obesit ... high blood pressure and a thickened heart muscle may be lurking around the corner – EVEN if you have normal blood pressure and blood sugar now. Obese [...]
12 Easy Ways to Cut Back on Salt to Save Your Heart
You're probably eating WAY more salt and sodium than you think. Here are 12 simple ways to lower salt intake to help prevent heart problems down the road. American Heart Association Daily Salt Intake Recommendations [...]
Why People Only 30 Lbs. Overweight Should Lose Weight Now
If you’re overweight even by 30 pounds and think you’re healthy due to normal blood work, you still should lose weight because down the road, your excess fat may catch up to you and cause [...]
You Know You’re No Longer Fat AND Healthy When…
Is it when your fasting blood sugar gets over 100? Is it when your systolic blood pressure gets over 140? […]
Normal Blood Sugar in a Plus Size Woman Doesn’t Mean Healthy
Just because a plus size woman has normal blood sugar does NOT mean she is healthy. A blood sugar reading is not the only metric for good health in the body. However, many body positivity [...]
You Can’t just “Think” Yourself Healthy in Body if You’re Obese
There’s more to being healthy than having normal blood sugar and pressure; obesity cannot be any healthier than is smoking. A clinically obese woman may be able to train for a 5K or go on [...]
If Obese People Can Be Healthy, What’s the Weight Cutoff for Unhealthy?
At some point obesity has to be unhealthy despite claims by plus-size people that they are healthy. At what weight, then, does obesity go from being potentially healthy to always harmful? When very overweight people [...]
Metabolic Healthy Fat Doesn’t Protect Against the Flu
Obese women who claim they’re healthy because they have normal blood pressure and blood sugar need to know that obesity impairs protection against the flu. Of course, this applies to men as well. Normal blood [...]
Metabolic Healthy Obese vs. Metabolic Healthy Normal Weight
Why do metabolic healthy obese people keep comparing themselves to “unhealthy thin” people when they should be comparing themselves to metabolically healthy THIN or straight-size people? “In this situation, one should compare oneself to the [...]
Thin People Having Heart Attacks Won’t Make Obesity Healthy
The body positive very overweight women need to stop pointing out that thin people have heart attacks in an attempt to validate obesity. This is like saying that smoking is okay because nonsmokers get lung [...]
Can Fat Be Healthy just Because Marathon Runners Drop Dead?
A most weak defense by obese people who claim they’re healthy is when they point out deaths from marathon running. Obesity or being significantly overweight is a well-proven health hazard; you cannot be healthy and [...]
If Anorexia Nervosa Is a Mental Illness, Is Obesity Too?
Anorexia nervosa is the name of a psychiatric disorder, a mental illness, but “obesity” can be the result of certain of psychiatric disorders. […]
Can Fat People Have Good Bloodwork and Still Be Unhealthy ?
It keeps happening: Overweight and obese women post comments in social media that they’re healthy — because their blood work is normal. […]
Is Social Media’s Promotion of Obesity Making America Fatter?
Every week a Facebook or Instagram image of a fat or overweight woman goes viral: The latest is an obese woman in a bikini standing beside her overweight very young daughter. […]
Why Obesity Is Especially Bad for Tall People
Being obese in combination with being tall creates a potential fatal medical condition that isn't as likely in a shorter but obese individual. You can’t change your height, but you can change your body fat [...]
Can Being Religious Lead to Obesity?
How can religion lead to obesity? Or is it that very overweight people are drawn to organized religion? What's truly going on here? The link between middle age obesity and religion has already been established. What researchers [...]
Thin and Active Is Healthier than Fat and Active
Skinny active beats fat active hands-down. Oddly, the comparison typically is sedentary-thin vs. fat-active. This isn’t a fair comparison; it’s an apples to oranges comparison. […]
Is Obesity Selfish? Is Getting Fat Not Fair to Family?
The war rages whether or not obesity is selfish. It’s like, “How can that mother allow herself to get that way? Her young kids will lose their mother early in life.” Have you heard it [...]
Why People Should NOT Come in All Sizes: Obesity Is Unhealthy
People should NOT come in all sizes. Though height variation doesn't cause bad health, obesity does. Size variety is no excuse for accepting fat prevalence. Science does not support the mantra that "people should come [...]
Fat Acceptance vs. Thin Acceptance: Obesity Never Healthy
Would your doctor rather you be fat or thin? Fat acceptance is wrong on so many levels. The fat acceptance movement needs to be reversed immediately. Obesity is never healthy. What is the definition of [...]
Why It’s Okay for Obese People to Focus on Weight Loss
A growing movement insists that it’s harmful for overweight and obese women and men to focus on weight loss, but here is why they are very wrong. […]
Can Obesity Itself Cause a Bleeding Belly Button?
There IS a link between a bleeding belly button and being obese. The situation needs prompt treatment by a doctor. “Obesity itself does not cause a bleeding belly button, but it may contribute,” says Kathryn [...]
My 600 Pound Life: Pauline Is Another Penny
Penny from “My 600 Pound Life” now has a twin sister, Pauline, who’s in denial and refuses to take responsibility. An episode of “My 600 Pound Life” in 2015 was viewers’ first exposure to Pauline, [...]