Fat is lovely and protective, actually.
Let's dismantle the myth that Fat doesn't have health benefits, shall we? 🧵

(photo credit: bit.ly/3B1mCrl)

It protects your bones from growing brittle as you age, there's a higher life expectancy for fat people bc since fat causes the body to create thicker muscle beneath it to support it, there's a stronger chance we'll survive heart attacks -
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

That study begrudgingly admits that bc muscle is metabolically expensive then since fat people technically have so much of it to support their fat, then fat people are essentially walking tanks of protective armor.

This educator breaks it down: bit.ly/3eqSPRi

BigFatScience on Tumblr is a great resource for scientific debunks. The owner has a strong medical background and they help make scientific data really easy to understand.

I also recommend Heavyweightheart on Tumblr for resources that emphasize ED recovery thru a Pro Fat lens.

Moving on:
The 0besity Paradox contradicts everything we surmised about bodies from the BMI & the Quetelet Index which preceded it. Both have been debunked bc we're learning in true scientific fashion that our understanding of physiology and nutrition have been compromised.

Scientists are influenced by cultural biases.

There are medical textbooks that are still in print and used in curriculums that teach future doctors that say that black people are immune to pain. This screencap went around twt as late as 2017.

bbc.com/news/blogs-tre…

However, this issue has been prevalent for over a century & med students that were interviewed around then that most likely started work in field by now admitted with a 'fascination' that they believed that black people's nerve endings were different.

washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-h…

And then once you get into mental health, eugenics, racism, and bio-essentialism have a field day bc there are still biases that manifest into political scapegoating and institutional violence where deliberate misdiagnoses are given to oppressed populations.