027: Is Fat-Positivity Anti-Health?

Is embracing your body just an excuse to give up on your health? Is fat positivity or body positivity advocating for people to be unhealthy? What do you say to a fat person who is unhealthy due to their weight? I answer all these questions and a listener question in this episode. Plus a Covid-19 fat health update. CW: mention of the O words throughout. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/027 Covid-19 Does Not Discriminate By Body Weight: https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-does-not-discriminate-by-body-weight/ How and Why Weight Stigma Drives the Obesity 'Epidemic' and Harms Health: BMC Med 16, 123 Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. ET Al.  (2018): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5