Harmful for the same reason as the 'healthy at any size' campaign, and anti progressive because if they claim health at every size, then they deny there's a huge malnutrition problem in America. It would be solving the problem of food deserts and obesity by just saying 'no no these people are actually healthy' instead of making sure they don't live in a fucking food desert.
Well, let's go through it slide by slide.
People's bodies do not naturally come in "all shapes and sizes." Yes, people have very widely different body types and people of wildly varying sizes can be healthy, but that is not all-inclusive. A 400 pound person will never, ever be healthy. And it doesn't matter what that weight is made of. If you're 400 pounds of muscle, that's unhealthy too. And while, yes, thin people can be unhealthy for various reasons, they are not unhealthy because they are thin. A 400 pound person is unhealthy because they are overweight.
Yes, fatphobia sucks and I guess probably has killed people before. But the claim that fatphobia kills more than fatness does is frankly insulting and disgusting. It is a complete and surely intentional lie and I would be ashamed of myself for ever saying something like that.
The reason doctors go straight to weight loss is because they are doctors and they want you to minimize your health issues where you can. Just like a dentist telling you to brush your teeth and floss every day, a doctor will and should advise you to maintain your body so that it doesn't cause or exacerbate health issues. The same reason they will and should tell you to stop smoking, to stop excessively drinking, or to stop jumping off of tall buildings for an adrenaline high.
The "reality" section doesn't even address the "assumption" section. And the assumption section is, barring extreme crippling medical conditions, is completely true without qualification. Just like a smoker "chooses to be unhealthy" (though that's not how I'd word it myself), a fat person chooses to overeat consistently. No one's body is fat naturally, that results from eating too much. Plain and simple. Your body can't store calories it was never provided, you can't create matter from thin air.
This is loser talk. "Boo hoo I can't control my body, all I can do is live in it." Fuck that. I'm being harsh, but it's just bullshit. Your weight is something you have complete, 100% control over. It is a reflection of your actions and your actions alone.
Aside from the same loser talk I already called out, I can't really comment on this. I'm not reading some random paper.
This is another one where the "reality" doesn't address the "assumption," and predictably, the assumption is correct again. And yes, people often do regain weight after losing it. Because they started overeating again. "I can't possibly stick to a healthy relationship with food, look at all these other people who failed" is just loser talk again.
This slide literally tries to argue that high blood pressure is a good thing for fat people because it's made necessary by their excess fat. It's difficult to overstate just how absurd this claim is, and how thoroughly it counteracts their argument that being fat doesn't necessarily mean being unhealthy.
I mean sure, that happens sometimes. That sucks. That's a real problem. Fatphobia in general is a real problem.
But anyway, yeah. So the vast majority of the points made here are utterly offensive. I hate it. I hate that you showed me this. I hate that I bothered to respond to it.
I'm glad you responded cos it articulated what I wanted to say a lot better.