Health At Every Size Movement: What Proponents Say vs. What Science Says

Prevention (CDC) continuously warn of an ongoing obesity crisis that threatens to swallow our waistlines and end our lives prematurely, while gossip rags and television shows laud the individuals that rise to the top and complete drastic weight loss attempts. Indeed, the collective fascination with weight even extends to health and news sites such as Medical Daily, with a seemingly neverending supply of new studies and well-worn tips guaranteed to help us keep off the pounds for good.

But amid the blaring clarion calls to combat obesity, lose weight, and achieve bodily bliss, there has been a growing — if loosely knit — contingent of activists, researchers, and academics who openly question weight’s role in society and medicine.

The earliest of these critics often belonged to the still-active fat acceptance and body positivity movements, which sought to fight back prejudice against the overweight as early as the 1960s. Later advocates include law professor Paul Campos, who called for the complete dismantling of obesity as a legitimate health problem in his 2004 book, The Obesity Myth. And in more recent years, organizations like the Association for Size Diversity and Health have not only seen themselves as “obesity skeptics” but as messengers of their own public health For the full article click here 

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