I don't know anyone who thinks that an inactive skinny person is, by default, always healthier than an someone who looks overweight.

It's just not that simple.

It's not that I'm lazy. I prefer the term "physically complacent."

Hey Carlos. You don't have all the facts. There are lots of causes for obesity and weight doesn't guarantee a person will our will not have health problems. I've been "overweight" most of my life, with a physical activity range from gymnastics team member to very little activity. I definitely feel better when I'm…

You seem to have a lot invested in condemning fat people. You may have an insecurity problem.

Saying you struggle with reading comprehension isn't an ad hominem. It's a demonstrable fact, observable within discussion, that negates your claim that all that is necessary to understanding the affect of weight on health is the ability to read.

I said a PhD or a consultation from a medical doctor. I talk to mine about it regularly. Between that and a background in biochem I can pretty much dismiss what you've said as the kind of "but it's common sense!" bunk that every idiot on the internet says. That or "but I've been reading in Men's Health!"

*sigh*

What it means is that you can't tell whether a given person is healthy or unhealthy just by how closely they fit some cultural standard of how a person is supposed to look. So unless you are that person's actual doctor, and privy to all their health info, stop judging and pigeonholing.

Same here...all through my 20s and early 30s I'd say something about being so out of shape and I'd get argued with "oh, stahp, you are so thin!" and I'd argue, yes, yup, I look cute in my little jeans, but I can't walk around the block without huffing like an 80 year old smoker and I'll probably drop dead from heart…

True, true. People always go "Being overweight is BAD ALWAYS BAD a doctor will tell you that". No, actually. A good doctor (some aren't so good) will notice a higher BMI and sensitively and respectfully ask you questions about your diet and activity levels before they jump to a conclusion. I'm overweight, but doctors…

I'm skinny and not in awesome shape, and lots of (esp. heavier) people assume that I'm super healthy. "Oh, well YOU should have EXTRA dessert, you can afford it!" Um, I sat at my computer for 12 hours yesterday and haven't been to a gym since 2012. I think I should stick to the carrot sticks. If I want to have juice…

Ah, but there are a ton of ppl that see skinny people and assume those skinny ppl are healthy, active, and OBVIOUSLY much healthier and more active than my fat ass (which is at the gym every morning before work). And I believe that was one of the points she was making. Like how she actually said in her article that…

Huh. That's weird. You must be very special, then! Because everybody else knows a lot of people (tons, even! hell, even a lot of doctors!) who assume that being skinny, no matter how active, is automatically healthier than overweight people.

All it's about is not assuming you know about someone's health by looking at them. That's all. Doesn't matter about who is more likely to suffer from what. You simply don't know by looking at anyone, and so therefore the judgment needs to be completely withheld. Period. The point is that skinny people get the benefit…

I was at a dinner thing a few years ago and was chatting with a coworker of my ex's who was going on about how thin I was. I told her that it was all an illusion and she introduced me to the phrase skinny-fat. Which, I totally am. I find it interesting/amusing/depressing that a lot of people assume I'm healthy because…

Ahh, yes. My ex-boyfriend was thin and looked great in clothes. But naked, he sort of resembled a droopy stick figure. His butt was bizarrely flat without any muscle or fat in it, so touching it was like grabbing at pudding. When he ate a large meal, it gave him a potbelly until it was properly digested so you could…

And this article means it's just as likely for an inactive thin person to get the same plethora of preventable diseases from being inactive.

It is. This is just another person who trolls these articles just waiting to tell you about how you're doing it wrong (and also that you're ugly while doing it wrong).

Anybody who's not doing what I'm doing to maintain the lifestyle I'm maintaining is obviously doing it wrong. I'll be over here. Judging.

Next step: condescending Facebook shares and diatribes!