Is the fat acceptance movement bad for our health?

Yes.

"Deb Lemire has always been 'short and square,' a figure she inherited from her grandmother and passed on to her child. So when Lemire took her daughter in for a wellness visit and the well-meaning pediatrician pulled her aside to talk about her daughter's weight, the 47-year-old burst into tears 'because I was the 10-year-old being told I was overweight.'"

Poor cow, she has to harm her daughter because she is traumatized.

"She took her daughter to a nutritionist, who said her dietary habits were good. So Lemire decided not to push the issue. 'I have spent my whole entire life dieting and feeling like my worth was attached to my weight,' says Lemire. 'I wasn't going to tell her she has to change who she is. But we're going to encourage healthy behaviors [and] not worry about translating that into a size that's 'OK.' That message is not going to come from me -- she'll get that enough from other people.'"

Too late, nutritionally child abusing fatso, you lost the "encourage healthy behaviors" battle when you and your kid blimped-up.

"Lemire also happens to be president of the Association for Size Diversity and Health, a group that advocates that people can be healthy at any size. Her group is just one of several in a growing trend sometimes called the fat acceptance movement."

We accept that you are fat. We just do not accept responsibility for your rescue.

"From the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, which portrays underwear-clad women who tend to be larger than the average model, to the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, which fights size discrimination, many organizations and businesses are championing a new definition of beauty -- one that is not dictated by waist size..."

This has nothing to do with beauty. Your article is supposed to be about health.

"In fact, experts have recently found that the decades-long efforts to limit one serious heart risk -- smoking -- is expected to pay off with longer life spans. Unfortunately, the rise in obesity will likely undercut that progress."

Yep. Though the real unfortunate part is that all of us are expected to pay for this.

"Can you be fat and fit?"

No.

"Expert opinion is pretty much unanimous: Being overweight is bad for your health, particularly for your heart.

'Obesity is probably the only risk factor that has such a global negative impact on so many risk factors for the heart,' says Barry Franklin, Ph.D., the director of the Cardiac Rehab Program and Exercise Laboratories at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan."

See.

And if they choose heart disease, then we should be able to choose not to pay for their rescue.

Fight back.