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. Read more...
10 Easy Ways to Cut Back on Salt to Save Your Heart
Many people are eating way more salt (sodium) than they think; here are 10 simple ways to lower salt intake to help prevent heart problems down the road. Too much salt in the diet can Read more...
If a Fat Woman Has Normal Blood Sugar, Does this Mean Healthy?
It doesn’t cut it: “She’s a healthy plus-size woman because her blood sugar is normal.” Plus-size model Ashley Graham inspired this article about the relationship between normal blood sugar and being healthy. Read more...
Fat & Fit, Fatkini, More Likely to Have Heart Disease: Study
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 ?
At some point obesity has to be unhealthy despite claims by fat people that they are healthy and that thin runners drop from heart attacks or get cancer. And what about those claims that trim 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? This is a great question, and finally, a 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...
Fat Drivers Are More Likely to Die in a Car Accident Because…
Health at any size certainly doesn’t make sense if obese people are more likely than slimmer people to die in a car accident. This is yet one more blow to the idea that any size 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. Read more…
The Link Between Obesity and Being Religious: Chicken or Egg?
How can religion lead to obesity? Or is it that fat 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 wanted Read more...
Thin and Active Is Healthier than Fat and Active
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…
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 personal trainer and fitness Read more...
Why Obesity Is Never Healthy, Despite Latest Study Results
The latest study now strongly hints that obesity may be healthy and that obese people live just as long as thinner people. 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?
“Obesity itself does not cause a bleeding belly button, but it may contribute,” says Kathryn Boling, MD, a board certified family medicine practitioner with Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Boling explains, “The most Read more...