Okay? The point is that a body positive world doesn't eliminate the most salient struggle of being fat, which is that it is bad for you in the long term.

Not at all. I think gastric bypass is horrible and no one should get it—people should not become obese in the first place, and should stop being obese by adopting reasonable eating habits and making modest changes to their lifestyle to become more active.

Eating right and moving more consistently requires discipline, restraint, control, delayed gratification, and a long-distance view of life. These are qualities that very few people today possess, fat or thin.

This article is not saying that. This article is saying that making people feel bad about themselves for being fat (like any other thing people make other people feel bad about) causes them to do crazy things in order to try to win the acceptance of their friends/family/society (again, like any other thing people make…

I don't think you know what trolling is, at all.

Not advocating gastric bypass surgery! Also not arguing with your study that shows that 70% of obese non-Hispanic whites are unwell!

People being nice to you and respecting your right to be fat (which they should!) doesn't change the medical reality of being fat, and therefore doesn't lead to a world free of people going through awful medical procedures or suffering health consequences or having limited experiences as a result of their weight. Fat…

And most young obese women become older obese women.

You don't have to pick your poison. That idea and this article continues to set up a false dichotomy: You either have to go to extreme, dangerous lengths to be thin or be fat and happy.

But people should have to go through all of the medical problems associated with being overweight or obese, including a decreased ability to conceive?

It sounds like you're doing the best you can, and I hope it works out. My point was that, contrary to the author of this article, I think there's plenty to be done, even in a world filled with fat-hate, and it seems like you're on it.

Unfortunately, the real secret of living a healthy life is learning restraint, delayed gratification, balance, and compromise, not eating this or that diet or doing some exercise routine. So if I were you, and I had a fat kid, I would be focusing on instilling those attributes, and not on food.

To be clear: I believe that if we were all strictly adhering to the same healthful exercise regimen and the same diet, we would be different shapes and sizes. Some people would be super thin, some people would be super muscular, some people would be soft, some people would be chubby. But I don't believe that obese or…

To clarify: It is not hard for me to see how we can help kids stay healthy without first expecting society to get its fat hate under control. It is easy: (1) encourage your small children to do active activities, including the plethora of free active activities available to nearly everyone, and (2) encourage your…

You know this article is about 5 year olds, right? Do you really think anyone believes 5 year olds should be doing "cardio+strength+flexibility"? Or are you just projecting? :(

What "health problems thin people have from having bad habits" are you referring to in children, specifically, if not some form of eating disorder? If a small child is dieting so intensely so as to have health problems —> eating disorder.

So you think that people who feed their children Coke and Doritos know it's horrible, but do so anyway? Not sure what your point is here.

Last I checked, eating disorders among small children were rare. And the fraction of small children who would be overweight in the absence of poor eating and exercise habits is a tiny fraction of what it is now.

On the whole, actually, you can tell how well a child is eating and exercising by whether or not they're overweight. You really drank the Jezebel Kool-aid on this shit, didn't you? :(

Hint: the ones who aren't fat are the ones with responsible adults encouraging healthy choices in their lives.