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fatphobic propaganda

There’s this one video that was getting around at some point where a confident-looking female TikToker showed pictures of dead fat people, making the audience think that those dead fat people had all died recently due to fatness.

This video is very concerning because it’s a classic example of propaganda. The TikToker didn’t state that those people had died specifically due to fatness, nor did she state that those people had all died recently, back to back. She had made her audience assume that based on the format of the video.

As I checked out two of the fat people in the video (whose names were shown), I found out that the other one’s reason of death was never even publicized (she could have died from anything for all we can know) and the other person’s death happened 1-2 years after hers.

Now, these were just two people from the video, but the fact that the Tiktoker felt confident enough to show these two people’s names despite their deaths being at least a year apart (and despite the other person’s reason of death being unknown), tells me that it’s likely that the deaths of the rest of the people in the video weren’t close to each other either, and were probably also caused by other reasons than just being fat.

I could make a similar video featuring blonde influencers, and manipulate people into thinking that blonde influencers have a higher chance of dying than anyone else. Even if dead blonde influencers made up 1% of all blonde influencers, I could influence people to think that them dying is much more common than it actually is, by taking a small sample and by not showing influencers with any other hair color.

It’s very important to recognize this kind of brain f*ckery, not only because this is about fat people and tools of oppression that have been used throughout history to influence the masses, but also because stuff like this is very common when it comes to science, and especially line graphs.

It’s also very important to fact-check these sorts of videos when you see them. If the person can’t even show the names of the people they’re showing, you shouldn’t trust them regardless of whether they seem confident and charismatic. In fact, you shouldn’t trust anyone who is comfortable with showing images of dead people just to make a point, whether their point might be valid or not.

I’m talking about this because I saw one fat activist who was distressed due to this video, even though the person in the video was just spewing propaganda-like bs. I don’t know how many other people saw this video and felt distress over it, but I hope that this can make you all feel a bit more relieved.

Toodles!

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I’d just like to remind you that yes, it’s okay to question and reject obviously biased and badly conducted research on fat bodies.

You’re not a science denier for not liking research when its purpose is not to help you, but to make you seem inferior.

If we go 100 years back, all research on POC and women was conducted through a lense of bias. Research on fat people was similarly biased back then, but hasn’t changed for the better since.

And as you wouldn’t blame women claiming sexist research as biased and faulty, you shouldn’t blame fat people for pointing out fatphobia in research and claiming such research as biased and faulty.

Toodles!

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If you have any ideas of possible messages for fat-positive pins and stickers, I’d be very grateful if you wanted to share them!

Of course I have a long list of my own ideas as well, but I’d just like to know if you have any message you guys think would be important to get into a sticker/pin form so you can share them with the world.

If I ever start selling pins/stickers, they would have (pretty cheap) international shipping.

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It’s so wild to me that all research on fat people’s eating habits is like ”yeah, fat people eat more often and that’s what made them fat.”

This, alongside of all research on fat bodies, doesn’t take into consideration the fact that fat people face more bullying, are statistically more likely to have low self-esteem, more likely to be stressed, etc. We are predisposed to binge eating, compulsive eating and stress eating!

It’s not as simple as ”eating made someone fat”. Medical professionals, researchers, media, etc., forget that there’s never just one thing that attributes to our body’s features. No one’s getting fat just from eating, there are a ton of genetics and environmental factors (such as stress) involved!

Also ask any fat person you know and they’ll tell you that they’ve either been on a diet, are on a diet, or strongly thought about getting on a diet. This whole society is on a diet right now and no one’s eating as much as needed! Fat people might eat more than thin people, but do any of us eat enough? I’ve yet to see a research address this.

Also even if we fat people ate more than the ”normal amount”, then that warrants us to look into the biological differences between fat and thin bodies, and redefine what a ”normal amount” even is. We can’t starve fat people because society thinks it’s best if all of us are thin.

There’s like no research centered around biological differences between fat and thin bodies, that are actually working to make this world a better place for fat people.

Toodles!

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I heard that Finland’s getting our own fat activist/fat liberation organization called Läskisti, and I’m excited!

They don’t have a website or anything yet and just have an Instagram account with no content yet, so I’m crossing my fingers that the organization will become active (and stay active) at some point.

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Happy Pride Month! Here’s a fat LGBTQ+ reading list I’ve compiled! 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️

Books

Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini

What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma by Jason Whitesel

The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce by Angie Manfredi

Nothing Is Okay Poems by Rachel Wiley

Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán

Wow, No Thank You. Essays by Samantha Irby

Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Speaking Wiri Wiri by Dan Vera

Fiction

I’ll Be The One by Lyla Lee

Putting Makeup On The Fat Boy by Bil Wright

Soft On Soft by Em Ali

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

Here The Whole Time by Vitor Martins

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Untouchable by Talia Hibbert

A Harvest Of Ripe Figs by Shira Glassman

Private Eye (The Spies Who Loved Her) by Katrina Jackson

Three romance/erotica novellas by Xan West:

Nine Of Swords, Reversed, Eight Kinky Nights: An F/f Chanukah Romance, Their Troublesome Crush

Xan’s work centers kinky, trans and non-binary, fat, disabled, queer trauma survivors. It leans more towards centering Jewish characters, ace and aro spec characters, autistic characters, and polyamorous networks.

Featured list from LGBTQ reads: Sapphic Plus-Size Protagonists!

The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw

The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

Final Draft by Riley Redgate

Articles

Being Queer When You're Fat, Femme and Gaysian by Mark Mariano

Black, Fat Queer Bodies: Receiving Pleasure And Demanding Respect by Darian

Cool People I Know: Fat Folks in Kink on Fashion, Femme, and Community by Shaan Lashun

CLAIMING MY NON-BINARY IDENTITY by Madeleine

How I Navigate Masculinity as a Fat Queer Woman by Hannah Schneider

Proudly Black, Fat, Queer and Making a Home for Myself in Cosplay by Briana Lawrence

Interview: Out Of The Closet With ‘Plus Size Trans Guy’, Shane Stinson by DapperQ

What it’s like being Fat, Queer, and Asexual by Michael Paramo

How Being Plus Size Affects Presenting As Non-Binary by Gina Tonic

I Am The Plus-size Transfemme You Stared At For Too Long. by Rori Porter

Mixed-Race, Non-Binary, Queer Fat Femme: How I Fail and Succeed in Finding Liberation by Cicely Blain

I’m Fat and Gay. Here’s What I’ve Learned. by Sean Bennett

What It’s Like to Be A Fat Black Queer Femme— With Cancer by Taylor Crumpt

A Brief History Of The Gay Bears And Big Boys Scene by Gay Star News

The Fat, Black, Femme, Queer Chronicles by Tina Colleen

Dissertations

"Fat is a Queer Issue, Too": Complicating Queerness and Body Size in Women's Sexual Orientation and Identity by Hannah R. Long

More Fats, More Femmes, And No Whites: A Critical Examination Of Fatphobia, Femmephobia And Racism On Grindr by Matthew Conte

Fat Activism: A Queer Autoethnography by Charlotte Cooper

Spatial Awarishness: Queer Women And The Politics Of Fat Embodiment by Adrienne C. Hill

Fat Mutha: Hip Hop’s Queer Corpulent Poetics by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Other

A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline by Charlotte Cooper

Transcript: Fat & Queer Intersections Webinar by NAAFA

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Fat people and blood draws

(Tw: discussion on drawing blood)

It’s ridiculous to me when medical professionals act as if drawing blood from fat patients is hard.

Yes, we’re more likely to have ��invisible veins” aka medical professionals have a harder time finding our veins.

But a phlebotomist or a nurse shouldn’t have a hard time locating our veins.

My fat aunt was once pricked multiple times in a row with needles because her phlebotomist couldn’t find her veins. My aunt’s arm later became seriously bruised, swollen and sore from that spot, and it was a horrible experience for her. This was the first time something like this has happened to her.

My fat mom has a similar experience.

I have a similar experience too:

I was getting my blood taken for the first time of my life, and I wasn’t nervous at all. However, the phlebotomist that was supposed to draw my blood pricked me on the wrong spot. After that, she told me that: ”we’ll just have to try”… and you definitionally don’t want to hear that from a medical professional with a needle.

I started feeling faint (because I was shocked from the words the phlebotomist had just said, and also didn’t want to experience what my aunt had experienced) and was transferred to another phlebotomist next door (who had a reclining chair). Unlike the first phlebotomist, this one was immediately able to find my veins. She quickly took my blood and sent me home.

After that, I have had no mistakes or problems with my blood being taken (I’ve started offering my right arm to phlebotomists immediately because I know my veins are easier to find there than on my left arm). There have been a couple phlebotomists that have mentioned my veins being hard to find, but they’ve still been able to find my veins quickly. (However, now thanks to my first experience with my blood being drawn, I get nervous everytime I meet a new phlebotomist.)

Anyway, the point of this story: phlebotomists and nurses need to be able to find fat patients’ veins after a little probing, and not just guess first and then prick us. I know my aunt, me, and my mom are not alone in our experiences, and that this is something that has happened to a lot of fat people when they’ve gotten their blood drawn.

There are a lot of competent nurses and phlebotomists who are able to find their fat patients’ veins, but there are also a few bad ones in the mix who bruise their fat patients to the degree my aunt experienced. This shouldn’t happen, and all phlebotomists and nurses should be able to find our veins or even transfer us to a more qualified phlebotomists or nurse in case you seriously can’t find our veins. We trust you guys to not f*ck our arms up, and y’all should deliver.

(Also this is unrelated to my story, but I’d like to note that if you’re going to get your blood drawn soon, remember to actually put some pressure on the wound when your nurse or phlebotomists tells you to, right after they’ve drawn your blood. This reduces the possibility of small bruising and soreness you might feel afterwards. Also brings snacks with you so that you can eat them right after getting your blood drawn if you know that you’ll become nervous and start feeling faint.)

Toodles!

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medical professionals listen to fat people!

It’s f*cked up how it’s the norm for medical workers to tell us fat people that we need to modify our bodies, to the point of coercion. 

This is my body. This isn’t a wrong type of body that you should try to convince me to change. This is the flesh I’ve been throughout my whole life; this fat is me:

I’m not a thin person in a fat suit. All medical workers need to get out of their asses and realize that fat people own fat bodies, not bodies that are ”thin-to-be”. I deserve the same care without mentions of how it would be the correct thing to modify my body, because this body has always been with me and always will. I grew in a fat body and this fat body is mine. 

Where I live, it’s recommended for doctors to gently try to talk to fat patients about weight loss. And as a fat person I don’t give a sh*t how gently you try to convince me, your main goal is still to change the way I am. You’re biased and your care reflects that. 

So stop f*cking trying to coerce us by fear-mongering. Read the many research papers that contradict current ideas of fatness in relation to health, and most importantly: listen to us fat people. 

I’m fat, and you have been convinced to throw away your work ethics as a medical professional just because our world says it’s okay to coerce fat people into weight loss, and that as a medical professional you should encourage people to drastically change their bodies but ONLY if they’re fat. Listen to yourselves. 

Toodles. 

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As someone who has GI issues (diarrhea, constant stomach rumbling, passing a lot of gas) I’m hestitant to go to a nurse or a doctor about my problems.

Why?

I’m a fat person with BED. Doctors and nurses will likely just ignore my problems as a sign of me being fat (and therefore having a bad diet) or binging.

I’m not going to give out my whole medical history, but just know that I know these are not the causes for my symptoms.

I hate it out here.

Anyway, much love to everyone else with GI problems!

i just wanted to say you're not gross if you deal with gastrointestinal issues. even if people treat your symptoms and disorders like they're disgusting, they're not. they're genuine health problems- health includes your entire body. if you are having issues digesting/processing foods, eating, controlling your bowels or having diarrhea or constipation issues or frequent gas and bloating, you're not gross. if you need a colostomy bag, you're not gross. if you need to use diapers you're not gross. if you frequently vomit you're not gross. if you deal with acid reflux and chronic heartburn you're not gross.

people and even doctors will treat people with these kinds of issues like we're disgusting but we're just people with health issues. a GI issue is no less worthy of attention than a broken bone. it doesn't matter where it's located in the body you still need help with it. there are many issues people can have with digestion that aren't necessarily "gross" and they don't deserve to be looked down on. you deserve care and respect from everyone in your life. you don't deserve to be treated like your health problems don't matter

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Child abuse isn't having a fat parent or being a fat child.

Actual child abuse?

Forcing a child to starve their body into thinness that is scientifically proven to be unsustainable in the first place.

Making a child go hungry when there is food available.

Teaching a child that their body is ugly and wrong just for being a different shape.

Locking up the fridge so that a child can't have the autonomy to eat food without being watched.

Telling a child that food itself, what a human needs to survive, is dangerous and no different than poison.

Encouraging a child to develop an eating disorder.

Suggesting that a child mutilate their body with weight loss surgeries that destroy healthy digestive organs and have been proven to have horrid lifelong consquences.

Making a child feel the need to hide food and their body.

Destroying a child's trust in you, their parent they have to hide food from.

Not giving a child enough food to eat in order to force them to lose weight to the point that the child has to buy their own food in order to have enough to eat and binge on food when they finally are given any.

Teaching a child to hate their body, effectively ruining their mental health and often giving them lethal mental disorders

Making a child feel so awful for being fat that they kill themself.

Telling a child that it's their own fault that they're bullied and harassed, that they wouldn't be abused by others if they just "chose" to be thin, if they starved a little more, if they exercised just a little harder.

Lying to a child about fatness and pretending that weight is nothing but a choice and is automatically unhealthy.

Taking a child away from their loving family and putting them in foster care purely for existing in a fat body, not allowing the child to have their family again until the child becomes thin (which will never even happen)

Sending a child to a "fat camp" to abuse their body into unsustainable thinness.

Telling your child about how much you hate your own body so that your child believes their similar body is also "bad."

Taking a child to Weight Watchers and forcing other diet culture products on them.

Preventing fat adults from being able to adopt children until those fat adults lose weight, taking away the perfectly good parents a suffering child could have had and making it so that fat people will never be able to adopt at all

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The thing about being fat is that it’s isolating.

No one I know views fat people as fully equal to thin people.

I mean, they might like me as a person. But my friends and siblings will look at me and think that I’m automatically less healthy than them.

They might not say it to my face, but I’ve had a friend who implied that I’ll die earlier than her when we were talking about fat bodies.

Thin friends and family see us fat people as thin souls in fat bodies. They’ll talk about fat bodies in a negative way and expect us to agree with them. Or they’ll stop listening whenever we bring up our struggles as fat people. They’ll love us, but they don’t accept our bodies as is.

And this is one reason why fat people are oppressed. You can see this exact same thing happening with other minorities too.

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i think about a lot of overlaps between fatphobia and intersexism, look:

normal variations of anatomy and physiology are claimed inherently bad and disordered. (fatness is a normal variation of body type, intersex variations are normal variations of sex characteristics, but both are claimed not normal).

fear mongering and pulling "risks" out of the ass. if a person is fat, they get 100500 "health concerns" from everyone and may be medically labeled as unhealthy just because of weight. fatness is equated to being unhealthy without taking anything else in account. even if a person is perfectly healthy, their fatness is treated like it's health problem (or a step to future health problems). same for intersex variations: every single intersex variation is treated like a health problem, despite how it actually affects the person. and every try to confront these beliefs is faced with hostility and "BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC CASE WHERE IT'S A PROBLEM???? SEE??? SEE?? I'M RIGHT! IT'S BAD!" fuck, yes, sometimes it is a problem. but even in those cases, it doesn't work like society wants: the problem lies not in normal body diversity but in a specific condition that causes specific discomfort or risk. for example, some intersex variations cause inability to urinate. and the problem here is the inability to urinate and not ambiguous sex traits. (so you need to address this specific problem and not mutilate a person's body to fit in social expectations).

the discrimination is protected by biased science. bigots refer to biased scientific sources to justify their bigotry. authors of these sources refuse to admit their prejudices and change their opinions even when new information is provided because they don't want to be fucking scientists and reevaluate their opinions after new data appear. they'd better protect their image of the world and use every existing logical fallacy and shitty argument to justify their outdated sources. so, medical and scientific fields are extremely biased on these topics.

unnecessary, unsafe, and actually harmful methods of "treatment" are pushed on people, often without their consent. it is closely related to the previous point (about biased science). all potential risks are either ignored and denied or "justified" by fear mongering around not intervening.

there definitely are more, but all other points i can come up with are more universal for different discriminations.

no conclusions except society really likes to police people's bodies.

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Fat people on airplanes get secretly photographed and their photos posted online for… existing?

And then people argue that it’s about health and that everything is about health.

Publishing photos of someone with the intent of bullying or harassing them, has nothing to do with health. That person has the right to be on the plane the same as you do. They likely even bought a second seat for everyone’s comfort.

Fat people do much more than enough by purchasing a second seat on a plane. The cost of seats isn’t low, and we fat people don’t own 2 bodies that would require 2 seperate seats.

Airlines could very well have a couple seats on their planes that are bigger than the rest for fat customers, or they could come up with another method for making sure that fat people don’t have to pay the price of 2 travelers.

But what’s happening is that airlines are actually shrinking their seats over time. They like the extra money they get from fat customers having to buy more seats, of course. And fat customers get blamed for everything.

The least airplanes could do is to make sure the seats fat people purchase are next to each other. After all, we don’t own two seperate bodies. Yet fat people get publicly shamed whenever news report on stories of airplanes messing up our seats.

I mean, f*ck fat people, why would they need to travel anyway? /s.

Nothing about this is about health. Everything about this is about public humiliation, oppression and profit. We fat people literally have our privacy breached because people get offended by fat people existing on planes, even if we buy extra seats. Have a lovely day y’all👋

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Action Item: Tell Southwest to prioritize accessibility for all bodies

A message from NAAFA:

For years, fat people have utilized and celebrated Southwest Airlines for having the most equitable seating policy of any major airline. Last summer, they announced that they’ll be shifting to assigned seating. At their most recent shareholders meeting, they announced more details about their plans to change their planes and their boarding procedures. But they still made no mention at all of how these changes will impact their Customer of Size policy.

The Customer of Size policy at Southwest hinges on people being able to choose their own seats. Without information about how changes will specifically impact those who need an additional seat, we cannot rest assured that the policy will continue to work. We are also concerned that reconfiguring planes for premium (more expensive) seating with extra legroom will eliminate affordable seating in the front rows, which can be essential to accessibility for larger fat flyers and some disabled passengers.

Southwest needs to commit to working with advocates from fat community and disabled community to ensure that we remain welcome and accommodated on their planes. 

We have tried to make Southwest executives aware of our need for clarity and information through social media, petitions and media outreach. We will continue to put pressure on Southwest and request a meeting with executives in hopes that they will eventually address this issue and continue with a best in the industry passenger of size policy as they roll out their assigned seating program next year.

Join us in urging Southwest to make a public commitment to keep flying accessible for Customers of Size and for disabled passengers. Sign the petition today!

Extra links:

Learn more about #FlyingWhileFat

Fat travel resources

Campaign for Size Freedom

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Thin men call muscular, bubble bums fat and talk about how they love fat asses (read: muscular asses).

Yet they start whining whenever we fat people say anything positive about our fat asses, or whenever we refer to our fatty butts as fat.

Like c’mon…

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Hello! This article pretty much sums up my thoughts on pre-diabetes as a term:

In my opinion the term pre-diabetic shouldn’t exist. My post didn’t dive deep into the subject and my personal anecdote wasn’t enough to give a clear enough argument. That’s my fault. (However, that doesn’t give you the right to insult me).

One thing I’d like to note that I never said anything about the signs of pre-diabetes not being real. I said that the term pre-diabetes is bs, later saying that pre-diabetes isn’t real.

In this post of me talking about how ”pre-obesity” isn’t real before talking about pre-diabetes not being real, it’s pretty clear from the context that I’m not talking about the symptoms of pre-diabetes not existing. If that was my actual message, then I would have also argued that overweight people don’t exist (“overweight“ meaning pre-obesity). And they obviously do: I just don’t think that the terms ”pre-obesity” and ”pre-diabetes” should exist.

Why? Like the article I linked says about the term pre-diabetes, and like I said in relation to the term pre-obesity, being ”pre-obese” or ”pre-diabetic” doesn’t mean that you’ll become diabetic or “obese” later in life. This makes them very bad medical terms.

On top of that, there is no globally agreed definition or diagnostic criteria for pre-diabetes. You see the problem now?

Look at this research paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6419965/ . It highlights different medical professionals’ feelings on the word pre-diabetic (because, not all medical professionals like or use the term pre-diabetic). One nurse practicioner called Mary was quoted in the research paper with this:

I’ll use it [prediabetes]. Maybe it’s a good one to help motivate people… I think it scares people… Some people need to be scared, that’s not nice to say, but some people need to have a little bit of fear put in them… Some people respond by really kicking themselves in the butt and doing everything they need to do.

What I’d like to mention is that not everyone needs the scaring (people respond very differently to fear), especially since pre-diabetes has no diagnostic criteria and no diagnostic criteria means no agreed-upon treatment plan. Not everyone who’s considered ”pre-diabetic” will get diabetes even if they make no lifestyle chances

I hope this post clears up my intentions and my message.

Pre-diabetes is a bs term, pre-obesity is a bs term.

There isn’t any ”pre” for conditions. You aren’t ”a pre-cancer patient” if you are a heavy smoker with no cancer, and you aren’t ”pre” any condition, even though you know there’s a good possibility that you’ll inherit a certain condition later in life because you are genetically predisposed to it.

There is no pre-obesity because not every fat person will get “obese”, aka very fat (not that there’s anything wrong with being ”obese”/very fat either. My BMI is considered ”obese” for my age). Unlike what thin people often seem to think, a lot of fat people have a certain weight after which our weight gain will naturally stop or slow down. You can observe this happening when you look at your fat relatives: e.g your fat aunt most likely isn’t adding on a lot of weight anymore after a certain age.

The term ”pre-obesity” works as a way to justify why we fat people deserve to be shamed or why we deserve to get sh*t care by healthcare professionals. It gives an excuse for treating smaller fat people like shit, even though there’s a lot of contradicting research on the health effects of being a small fat (”overweight”), some even stating that ”overweight” individuals live longer than their thin counterparts. And regardless, the line between ”overweight” and thin was drawn on water and changed over time: there is no reason why we define BMI over 25 as overweight, besides the fact that the number 25 was easy to remember (and BMI itself isn’t even accurate).

There isn’t pre-diabetes, because that’s a stupid fear-mongering term used by health gurus on the internet. I would be considered ”pre-diabetic” by internet graphs that state certain blood glucose levels, and HDL and LDL cholesterol levels to be pre-diabetic.

Despite this, my blood results were considered to be in the normal range, and later (after I expressed concern for my blood tests results due to those stupid ”signs of pre-diabetes” graphs on the internet) a nurse told me that if my blood results had been a sign of me getting diabetes soon, the doctor(s) who analysed my blood tests would have told me that.

Anyway, have a lovely day all!

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Pre-diabetes is a bs term, pre-obesity is a bs term.

There isn’t any ”pre” for conditions. You aren’t ”a pre-cancer patient” if you are a heavy smoker with no cancer, and you aren’t ”pre” any condition, even though you know there’s a good possibility that you’ll inherit a certain condition later in life because you are genetically predisposed to it.

There is no pre-obesity because not every fat person will get “obese”, aka very fat (not that there’s anything wrong with being ”obese”/very fat either. My BMI is considered ”obese” for my age). Unlike what thin people often seem to think, a lot of fat people have a certain weight after which our weight gain will naturally stop or slow down. You can observe this happening when you look at your fat relatives: e.g your fat aunt most likely isn’t adding on a lot of weight anymore after a certain age.

The term ”pre-obesity” works as a way to justify why we fat people deserve to be shamed or why we deserve to get sh*t care by healthcare professionals. It gives an excuse for treating smaller fat people like shit, even though there’s a lot of contradicting research on the health effects of being a small fat (”overweight”), some even stating that ”overweight” individuals live longer than their thin counterparts. And regardless, the line between ”overweight” and thin was drawn on water and changed over time: there is no reason why we define BMI over 25 as overweight, besides the fact that the number 25 was easy to remember (and BMI itself isn’t even accurate).

There isn’t pre-diabetes, because that’s a stupid fear-mongering term used by health gurus on the internet. I would be considered ”pre-diabetic” by internet graphs that state certain blood glucose levels, and HDL and LDL cholesterol levels to be pre-diabetic.

Despite this, my blood results were considered to be in the normal range, and later (after I expressed concern for my blood tests results due to those stupid ”signs of pre-diabetes” graphs on the internet) a nurse told me that if my blood results had been a sign of me getting diabetes soon, the doctor(s) who analysed my blood tests would have told me that.

Anyway, have a lovely day all!