If you want a deeper analysis of the intentionally bad methodology used to encourage the oppression of fat people, Maintenance Phase has a whole episode about this study. It's also important to remember the most basic facts about fatness:
There is not a single method of scientifically-proven long-term weight loss despite well over a century of trying, so "weight equals health" rhetoric peddled by fatphobes is already irrelevant since fatness is here to stay. It's like telling people that aging is correlated with ill health, so take this youth potion that definitely works and is only $29.99. Humanity will never stop aging, and humanity will never stop being fat. These fatphobes just want to make excuses to get fat people to abuse our bodies over and over again for our entire lives, and they know this. This is just one of their tactics to move the goalposts whenever somebody dares to think that we shouldn't stigmatize, vilify, underpay, underrepresent, starve, rape, or kill fat people (and that sadly isn't even the end of the list of shit that fat people are subjected to).
Fat people receive worse healthcare, less healthcare, and oftentimes no healthcare purely because we're fat. There have been many documented cases of the medical industry even outright murdering us, such as during hurricane Katrina or when doctors intentionally refuse to do any tests and then let fat people die of untreated cancer. Then you add to that how so many fat people are poor, people of color, minority genders, or have other oppressed identities that also are mistreated by the medical industry. Does that fatphobe truly think a poor, fat, latine woman is going to be given actual healthcare, if they can access healthcare at all? Does this fatphobe's "statistic" about mortality take that result-altering factor into account?
Forcing fat people to abuse our bodies into temporary thinness, aka yo-yo dieting, has been scientifically proven again and again to be harmful. And since there is no sustainable method of weight loss, this is the result for the vast majority of fat people who try to conform to fatphobes' wishes. We will continue to be fat, usually becoming fatter than before the weight loss attempt, all while suffering the trauma and worse health that comes with dieting our whole lives. There are even studies that show fatphobia is drastically more detrimental to fat people's health than any extra pound on the knowingly-pseudoscientific BMI scale will ever be.
Trying to harass, stigmatize, and abuse fat people until they attempt weight loss (which is what that fatphobe troll is attempting to do) has been shown in studies to only worsen fat people's health and doesn't even result in fat people conforming to the fatphobes' desires for thinness in the first place. It just makes people fatter all while harming fat people, an oppressed group, in countless ways.
Even if fatphobes were right about thinness being superior, all of this information that actually has been scientifically proven, unlike the bullshit claims fatphobes make, means that their BS rhetoric of "health" that they use to disguise their bigotry has not mattered from the beginning. It's their attempt to move the goalposts away from facts that they cannot disprove, similar to when republicans tried to excuse Trump sexually harassing women with excuses like "It's locker room talk" or "He surely doesn't do that anymore." These excuses don't change the actual matter at hand, and they know this. If there is no way to eliminate fatness, then whether fat people are healthy or not Does Not Fucking Change Anything.
I also want to point out how absolutely absurd and illogical that "2.8 million dead bodies a year" supposed statistic is. As of 2025, 7,094,925 people have died from Covid. Think about how seriously the world took that. Think about how the entire world was in a literal lockdown, how Covid was dominating the news every single hour of the day, how Covid drastically changed everybody's life for two years, how Covid majorly affected legislation and the economy, how the world is still recovering from the effects of the pandemic, how people you know probably died of Covid. If this "2.8 million dead bodies a year" shit is true, where is all of this for fatness? Why is this not the #1 news story every single day? Why do you not know people who have died of "fatness"? Where are all of these supposed dead bodies? 2.8 million dead bodies in a year over a five year period would be 14 million people killed. Double the deaths of Covid would have to mean double the response that Covid got. So where is it?
If fatphobes like that troll actually cared about health and mortality, they would be fighting fatphobia instead of encouraging it. They would be demanding that fat people receive better healthcare, better pay, no more police brutality and medical abuse, etc. But these fatphobes don't fight for that. No amount of science and facts will ever make these fatphobes fight for that. Because they truly do not give a shit about health. They only care about forcing conformity and making anybody who doesn't conform suffer.
When all is said and done, when I look at what fatphobes support, there is no winning me over. They are a movement based on hatred. They are the same people who support transphobia, homophobia, ableism, you name it. I will choose the movement based on love every time. Always.
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