[quote Beebee8]@FancyPants20
You're certain the heart attacks were weight related, not health related?
Thin people can have heart attacks caused by the same issues as fat people, but nobody would say it was anything to do with their weight.
Someone's weight in and of itself is not any indication of health. You cannot look at someone and know how they became that weight, or how they are currently living. Not that it would be any of anyone's business, but someone who was classed as 'obese' could change their eating and exercise habits to adequately nourish themselves and not lose weight, but society would still deem them as lesser.
Nobody deserves to be made to feel like shit for how they look.[/quote]
The problem isn't how people look . The problem is precisely where you can't look ie in the fatty liver that can't work efficiently, the clogged arteries reducing blood flow, the layers of fat pumping the wrong messages into the blood stream causing the diabetes that will bankrupt the NHS unless it is reduced in the population, the strain on a heart having to pump blood through miles of extra blood vessels, the breathing difficulties caused by a fat neck, the lungs that struggle to take in enough oxygen, the exhaustion and pain caused by carrying excess weight on a skeleton not designed for it, the skin lesions and infections caused by skin folds, the leg ulcers , the reduced fertility, the increased chance of a high risk pregnancy ...............
Forget wittering on about body confidence, body shaming and fat phobia , what we need is to be making sure everyone is aware of how obesity destroys their body, curtails their enjoyment of life, cripples their mobility and drastically reduces their life expectancy.
And yes, somepeople have medical reasons for obesity, and some have emotional reasons.