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. Read more…
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? Read more…
10 Things the Obese 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 Read more...
Can You Tell Someone’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? Read Read more...
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. Read more...
What Causes High Blood Pressure in Thin People?
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…
Fat & Healthy for How Long? Obesity Thickens Heart in Young Adults
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...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
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 Read more...
Body Positive Bikinis Won’t Stop Heart Disease in the Obese
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…
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 Read more...
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 normal weight people? “In this situation, one should compare oneself to Read more...
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 Read more...
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 bloodwork is normal. Read more…
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. Read more...
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 Read more...
The Link Between Obesity and Being Religious: Chicken or Egg?
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...
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. Read more…
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 Read more...
Why People Should Not Come in All Sizes: Obesity Is Unhealthy
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 former personal trainer and Read more...
Should All Obese People Lose Weight? Can They Be Healthy As Is?
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...
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. Fat Acceptance Defined Fat acceptance Read more...
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. Read more…
Can Obesity Itself Cause 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 Read more...
Can a Binge Eater Eat Himself to Death? Yes, in Case of Rare Genetic Disorder
There is a genetic defect that is estimated to afflict one in 5,000 obese people. It is NOT called "binge eating disorder," even though those afflicted will binge-eat every chance they get. It’s believed that Read more...
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, Read more...
How Important Is Weight Loss Before Total Knee Replacement Surgery?
If you have a total knee replacement surgery planned, you’d be doing yourself a huge favor by losing weight before having this procedure done. A report in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Oct. Read more...
Why Excess Fat Around Heart Is So Dangerous
Emory University School of Medicine cardiologists note that X-ray via CT scan can measure the size of the fat layer surrounding the heart. The fat layer around the heart is called epicardial adipose tissue. Knowing Read more...
Are Hoarding and Obesity Linked? Can Hoarders Self-Treat?
Is there a link between hoarding and obesity? Seems that most, if not all, hoarders are obese; you may have drawn this conclusion after seeing TLC’s “Hoarders: Buried Alive,” or even mere previews to this Read more...
Hip Replacement Surgery: Obesity in Women Hampers Recovery
Not only is there nothing positive about a body that falls prey to hip disease due to obesity, but very plus-size women who undergo hip replacement surgery fare worse than do overweight men. A very Read more...
How Much Weight Gain Raises LDL Bad Cholesterol?
Even a small weight gain in fat can raise your "bad" cholesterol (LDL), and I'm talking a very small weight gain. “Interestingly, a 10 percent weight loss has been shown to significantly decrease a broad variety Read more...
Early Menopause, Heart Attack Risk: Thin Fit vs. Obese Women
The research-verdict is out that early menopause appears to double heart attack risk and increase risk of cardiovascular disease. But does this take into consideration variables of exercise, diet, body weight and smoking history? The Read more...
Can Obesity & Overweight Cause Congestive Heart Failure?
When one thinks of obesity's harm to the heart, it's usually clogged arteries. But being fat can impair the heart's pumping action: heart failure. The heart fails to pump the amount of blood it's supposed Read more...
Why Does Being Fat Raise the Risk of Uterine Cancer ?
Being fat increases the risk of uterine cancer, plain and simple. DNA mutations that lead to uterine cancer do NOT care if you love your larger-than-life body or hate it. Fat is a risk factor Read more...
Health at All Sizes? Do Fat and Sugar Feed Cancer Cells?
You might be wondering if a very plus size individual can be healthy if fat or sugar feed cancer cells. “Sugar is the main culprit to feeding cancer cells,” says Dr. Keith Kantor, a leading Read more...
Life Span of Morbidly Obese vs. Normal Weight People
More truth shows that there’s no such thing as a healthy extremely obese individual and that obesity cuts life span SHORT. People who are extremely obese (class III) are more likely to have a much shortened Read more...
Why Does Morbid Obesity Stop Menstruation?
Being morbidly obese, no matter how confident you are, can have a bad effect on your menstrual cycle. It is no secret that when a very obese woman has been unable to conceive despite a Read more...
Why Does Gastric Bypass Surgery Cause Belly Pain?
Pain in the belly following gastric bypass surgery can have a number of causes, and it's not even that uncommon. Also keep in mind that a major cause of this is the fact that you Read more...