I'd like to honestly ask a question as someone who has never been overweight and without being at troll: Is being overweight ever the fault of the individual...EVER? Very few people put the blame on themselves and want to play victim.

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I agree with you. I'm not a small woman, I have always been "overweight" on the BMI scale (except for when I had an active eating disorder) and there were times where I was healthy even though technically overweight. As I see my weight increase there are just more and more things going on and losing weight is the…

While there is definitely epigenetics at play, it really beggars belief that 50% of the US population has genetic reasons for being overweight or obese. It's just mind-blowing that people will argue it.

Being fat because it is genetic is one thing. Being fat because one can't get to proper nutrition is another. Michelle Obama isn't fat-shaming. She's saying, "people are unhealthy because we give them crap to eat... lets stop giving people crap to eat just because they're poor."

And you completely misinterpreted the study you cited, so I fail to see how you are more adequate at reporting medical news than the Harvard Gazette.

The study that claimed lower mortality for fat people has been debunked in all kinds of ways.

There's plenty wrong, morally wrong, with not feeding children properly - with overfeeding them, or feeding them too much of the wrong things. It's wrong when parents choose to do that; its really, really wrong when one of the richest countries on earth has this messed-up situation where the poorest people live in…

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Man, that's exactly the type of reasoning he's talking about, though! Sure, ~80% of lung cancer deaths are tobacco smokers, but only 17% of smokers get cancer! Totally safe. Even more so that obesity, if we misread the numbers the way you have with diabetes.

A couple decades ago, when I was still in high school, my biology teacher predicted that obesity would be pronounced by many to be not only benign, but beneficial. It just made sense. The population was aging and slowing down, people were eating less food at home, and more fast food. Why buck the trend? If so many…

Seriously, this is one of the stupidest things I hope to read all day. Your logic boils down to: 100% of drowning victims were in water, but not 100% of people in water drown, so water has nothing to do with drowning! There's a lot more complexity to the relationship between weight and health than FAT = SICK (which…

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You don't know how to read (or link, apparently).

Diabetes: Correct! (Fun fact: while 30% of the overweight have diabetes, 8.3% of the general population have it.)

Look, as someone who used to be 275 lbs at 5'4, yes, there is something wrong with carrying that extra weight. It made me sluggish, unable to move without pain, exacerbated my sleep apnea, I seemed to catch various "bugs" easier and more often, my blood pressure was insanely high, and my weight put me at a high risk…

It's well known in medicine that obesity can lead to health issues. Anyone who argues otherwise is basically in the same league as the global warming denial types. "Correlation is not causation" is the same argument they made.

I've already gone through this many times: there are definite cases where obesity is causative for disease. From sleep apnea to diabetes, obesity can cause disease.