Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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SvennoJ said:

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.

Well, waist circumference and BMI are both very good predictors of mortality, so I'd say being lean is a good choice, not necessarily because it makes you look better, but because it makes you healthier.

This is especially important in those countries with a universal healthcare system.