The TRUTH about Health at Every Size | Debunking HAES Myths 

HAES suggest that the health concerns arising in the population are not solely due to body size but also to a dramatic shift in lifestyle and nutrition that has moved away from traditional, possibly more health-promoting practices. This underscores a HAES-aligned belief that access to a variety of foods, education on nutrition, and opportunities for physical activity are crucial for health. The case of Nauru also exemplifies how socioeconomic changes can drastically affect health outcomes. HAES advocates for addressing these root causes and creating environments that support individuals in making choices that are conducive to their health, which includes but is not limited to managing weight

@@jssfrk161 Thanks. If that was HAES' message, I guess few would take issue with it. However, already its very name suggests differently. You cannot be healthy "at every size". There are such things as being severely underweight and severly overweight which are both unhealthy. You cannot be healthy at 600 lb. Would you disagree? Health "at every size" is an oxymoron. The changes you suggest would i.a. lead to weight loss, which in turn would reduce a number of related ailments, such as type II diabetes. Weight loss would be an integral part of the equation. However someone like Lindo Bacon keeps insisting that there is no link at all between weight and health and that you therefore don't need to bother about weight loss. And that's obviously not true. Further, I hear many HAES associated voices saying that any lifestyle changes are completely superfluous and that you can just continue behaving as you have been. Yet, something like "intuitive eating" does not work with an abundance of ultra-processed food around us. When we start a bag of chips, we won't stop eating until the bag is fininshed, and those truly addicted to food might need yet another and yet another bag. Those foods are addictive by design. What would be the solution for a society like Nauru whose traditional livelihood has been all but destroyed (in their case by phosphate mining) and for whom returning to their former healthier ways is out of reach? What should people like the Lakota do, whose traditional territory has been mostly stolen and food source, the buffalo, has been almost entirely destroyed? BTW, obesity isn't the only problem. Many of them also have horrible teeth today, whereas just a few generations ago, their oral health was just fine. Whatever the solution, you first have to acknowledge the problem. As long as you deny that obesity is a problem, you are fundamentally misguided.

Since you don’t have a response would you be ok with mine? HAES would likely encourage individuals to engage in physical activities that are enjoyable and do not cause pain, emphasizing mobility and strength rather than weight loss as primary goals. They would support individuals in seeking healthcare that is respectful and free from weight bias, focusing on health screenings and preventative measures that consider one's overall health and hormone balance. HAES promotes the idea that people can pursue health without focusing on weight loss. This does not mean that weight has no impact on health; rather, it emphasizes that health behaviors are more important than any specific weight. It encourages looking at a range of health markers such as blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels, rather than using weight as the sole indicator of health

@@jssfrk161 How do you avoid engaging in activities that cause pain when it would include stuff like walking up and down stairs? That is practically impossible in the real world, even if you propose fat people do exercise pushing a wheelchair (good luck with avoiding joint pain there) or use a mobility scooter (which is an even bigger joke).

​@@btf_flotsam478 When I was obese (lost 100 lbs of fat), I started swimming and lifting weights... Then cycling... Then, I started multiple activities (started playing football and basketball again). It's a slow and steady progress.

You can eat ultra processed food everyday and not be obese. Healthy , maybe not, but not obese, yes. It's all about the calories you ingest vs the calories you spend.

@@CherryFlower24 eating less energy dense food makes it way easier, though. People in Nauru and other south Pacific island nations were effortlessly slim before the food industry arrived (and before their agricultural land was devastated by mining). Today they are the most obese in the world, even though they are still there same people with the same genetics and traditions.

@@CherryFlower24 I though so, to, but Chris Van Tulleken in his lecture "The harsh reality of ultra processed food" cites sources who say the opposite. The reason why e.g. indigenous peoples maintaining their traditional ways of life are almost never obese is not because they expend more calories. They don't. It is all about the food they eat. Exercise is beneficial, no doubt, but according to the sources cites there, not for weight loss.

I doubt there's any cutoff weight for the haes crowd, lol.

If you want to follow the money look anywhere in the weightloss or "health and wellness" industries

@@philijean9810I agree many companies make a huge profit off people trying to lose weight. But that doesn’t mean being and staying obese is totally unproblematic. We have to teach people how to eat healthy. We don’t need expensive products supposed to help us lose weight, we need healthy, unprocessed food.

Thank YOU!!

Younger obese people should really do something about their weight when they hit 30 cos their problems will increase at a much faster rate and become much harder to overcome

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Mind your business.

@@spiritsama51 obese people need to hear hard truths! It might hurt now but once they lose weight and become healthier they will feel much better and have a much happier life that’s a fact.

​@@lewis18051That's why I'm losing weight at 25

​@spiritsama51 - cool, except the relationship between obesity and deteriorating health IS causal. There is a reason for why there are no 80 year old fatties. Hardly any at 70 either, from the long time obese.

It's only a dumpster fire if you believe in this lady's delusions.

likewise w being too thin

Obesity will never healthy. Ever.

Thank you! These people live in delusion

Fat isn't an organ. It's a tissue - adipose tissue. Organs are structures made out of multiple tissues. If you actually had any kind of educational background in anatomy, physiology, and healthcare, you'd know that. So forgive me for not believing that you can diagnose people at a glance. Tell me, can you do the same thing with skinny people? No, because you're just making assumptions about fat people.

@clarewhite3004 I've trained hundreds of doctors and thousands of nurses. Adipose tissue is an organ and it secrets hormones among many other functions. You would die if we removed it from your body just like you would die if we completely removed your liver or heart or brain. Skin is also referred to as an organ, this might confuse non-medical folks who have never been in a classroom at a medical college. It's a system of specialized tissue that has differentiated from other cells in your body in order to fulfill a specific role. Fat is made of many types of special cells and has it own blood supple and nerves. There isn't 1 special fat cell. Just like there isn't 1 special skin cell, there many types. Heart too big? Death. Fat too big? Death.

@clarewhite3004 Just as an easier example: brown fat, white fat, blood supply, special receptors, excretion of signaling chems, could almost be like a thyroid or skin or pancreas right? Plays a huge role as an organ in the endocrine system.

Still waiting on my check from Big Fast Food ⏳

@@dietitianhannah I find it funny that you answer this but don't answer the comment asking about joint health. Hard to pretend 600lbs people can have healthy joints heh ?

​@@insightfulgarbage We all know the answer to that. I'm betting Hannah does too, but won't say so to avoid hurting the haes crowds' fee-fees.