| vivster said: Obesity isn't a health issue, it's a lifestyle choice. In fact, obese people are actually healthier than fit people because they can fit a lot more health in them than those string bean fat shamers. |
For some, not for all. It's like saying cancer is a lifestyle choice.
Obesity is generally not healthy, obesity starts at a bmi of 30 and over. There are exceptions, sumo wrestlers have a BMI of 56, eat 5,000 calories a day and train all day, until they don't:
Japanese sumo wrestlers are often used as a popular example of metabolically healthy obese. They are morbidly obese and yet due to their high level of activity have very little visceral fat accumulation, tons of muscle mass, and a healthy metabolic profile—until they stop training, that is. Once their activity drops off, so does their fitness, and they begin to accumulate excess fat in deleterious locations, matched by a worsening in their metabolic profile.
It seems one in 3 obese people are still healthy, but still die earlier like other obese people. But dying earlier can be a lifestyle choice as well.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/can-you-be-both-obese-and-healthy/
But true, string bean fat shamers are miserable people! Underweight people suffer more in the immune system as well. Yet also being underweight is not always a lifestyle choice!
It would be better if people stopped caring about what other people look like.
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