The biggest irony for me with HAES (among all the other stuff you and the others have said already) is that one of the useful ideas of Bacon (among a lot of idiocy, granted) was, that you could STRIVE for health at every size. Even if you’re a butter barge, it is never too late to start a healthy lifestyle. That was her original point in her book. The fats immediately twisted that to „you can BE healthy at every size“ which was never the point of even the ORIGINAL book about HAES.