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Health At Every Size

estudent · 2014-12-31 20:54:19

Health At Every Size (HAES) is quite simply the belief that women are healthy at all sizes. Nutritionists are constantly shaming bigger ladies and telling us that we're unhealthy based off inaccurate studies and a possible agenda. I like big women, find them incredibly sexy as hell but not so big that it would affect their…

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#152 02-01-2015 10:45PM

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JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Obesity is no longer regarded as kcals in=energy out simple formula.

Interesting stuff here, and here, and here, here, or here.

HAES makes the point that we seem to have forgotten that correlation is not causation and looks at things the other way around: what if obesity is the body's way of dealing with diabetes? rather than obesity causing diabetes Type 2.

While calories and intake are important, we also need to consider psychological, social and cultural factors.

Nothing in those links explains how to break the laws of thermodynamics. If you don't consume enough food for your bodys requirements each day it will start to break down it's own cells to fuel the rest.

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