Okay. Little tip. Whenever you see the words"experts say"? Just replace "experts" with "assholes"..then do what you want.

The Charmin company has long appropriated my people's visage for their overpriced two-ply toilet paper, and I would appreciate not having it thrown back in my face.

That has been disproven time and time again. Genetics is a huge part, some people are naturally resistant to weight loss, and there's more on all of this in the Aeon piece.

no, you are incorrect. people are eating less and exercising more in the current day than they were a generation ago, yet they are fatter.

This is the most intelligent advice I've ever read on "how to eat," by awesome nutritionist Ellyn Satter. Sad that so many of us (me included!) need reminding of what normal eating even is:

PREACH

I think it probably has something to do with internalized attitudes about beauty and thinness being linked with morality. That, and a subconscious desire to hold on to whatever beauty privilege they have, which is related to a zero-sum view of the world where any improvement in someone else's life must necessarily be…

The difference in the cost of fabric per item is barely cents given the scale of production. Cloth is a tiny, tiny fraction of the overall cost to produce an item of clothing. And the patterns can't be costing them much - or shouldn't be, anyway.

I'm a healthcare provider and I try to explain it to my judgy coworkers like this. With few exceptions, most of our patients regularly strap themselves into metal cans and accelerate upwards of 10x natural human running speed. It's not natural, it's terribly unsafe, and it's entirely the product of our consumer…

"Sure, you can fit in that dress, dear...but can you pull your head out of your own ass?"

Oh for fuck's sake...NO ONE is forced to "accept" overweight people. Check your fucking privilege — nowhere in mainstream American society is being overweight not looked down on and ridiculed. They're the one group it's still ok to publicly and openly talk shit about. If you think people are being forced to not…

You've got that right. If one of these ladies had cured cancer, someone would still pop up to say that you should not applaud them b/c of their awful, awful fatness.

I was wondering how long it would take for the concern trolls to arrive. B/c god knows, you cannot have a discussion about fat women without someone pointing out that they are about to die.

They made changes in 1998 and also during the 80's. Obese was originally listed at 40- now its at 30. Overweight started at 30, now its 25. I wrote a 30+ page paper about it for my graduate degree. The thing that bothers me is there is no mention of it in the media... it's all HEALTH CARE EPIDEMIC!!! Well of course…

What also really bothers me is the whole 'fat epidemic' in general. No one actually realizes the way in which we measure 'fat'- the BMI has been changing over the last 20 years. The reason there are more 'fat' people is because the BMI number defining what is 'overweight' and 'obese' has actually been lowered, in the…

Do you know why the 'average american is getting fatter'? Because they have changed the in which 'fatness' is measured. We measure 'overweight' and 'obese' through the BMI measurement. Over the course of the last 20 years, the BMI number keeps getting smaller and smaller to which we define obese and overweight. Why…

This is dumb and ignorant thinking. Take a good look at our healthcare system, read about how it works, and guess what, it's not the patients that are the problem. By policing the patients you are passively supporting the system and all it's flaws. And along those lines, you could say getting old drives up our…

You do realise that weight and health are different things, and that people of all sizes can be healthy or unhealthy? In fact, there is a lot of research coming out that suggests overweight people with cardiac conditions are statistically more likely to live longer than normal weight people with cardiac conditions.

I agree. I was at my thinnest when I was eating the worst foods. I know women that "look" obese that are some of the healthiest women I know - they eat great diets, they exercise, they have great blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels - this just happens to be where their body is comfortable at. Throw…

I wish all swimsuit ads showed women looking happy and having fun in bathing suit ads, instead of standing there in a solemn pose staring poutily into the camera. Regardless of size, this is the first time I've ever looked at a swimsuit add and thought "Damn, that looks like fun, I'd like to hang out with you!"