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? Read Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more…
If you consider yourself healthy despite being fat, 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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
No matter how confident you feel in a bikini, your obesity puts you at higher risk for heart disease than if you were smaller. Read more…
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 Read more...
Why do metabolic healthy obese people keep comparing themselves to “unhealthy thin” people when they should be comparing themselves to metabolically healthy THIN or normal weight people? “In this situation, one should compare oneself to Read more...
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 Read more...
It keeps happening: Overweight and obese women post comments in social media that they’re healthy—because their bloodwork is normal. Read more…
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. Read more...
Being obese in combination with being tall creates a potential fatal medical condition that isn’t as likely in a shorter but obese individual. Read more…
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 Read more...
VS. 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. Read more…
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 Read more...
How many times have you heard an overweight person, who’s been unable to lose the excess fat despite years of “trying everything,” insist that “people come in all sizes”? As a personal trainer and fitness Read more...
Are you obese and keep trying to convince yourself that you're healthy despite your size and don't need to lose weight? "Our findings challenge the idea that all obese individuals need to lose weight," says Read more...
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. Fat Acceptance Defined Fat acceptance Read more...
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. Read more…