Propoganda: Fat shaming = increased heart disease So just came across this interesting report. http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/fat-shaming-increases-risk-of-heart-disease-774164.html Apparently suggesting to someone to lose weight (AKA 'fat shaming', cause you know, encouraging a person to be healthy is shaming them....) Increases their risk of heart disease.  I'm a bit sceptical of all of the facts, considering the researches only interviewed full blown obeseasts and not 'skinny fats' and gave questionnaires to the hams, who were of course allowed to (and definitely would), exaggerate their 'trauma'. Obviously being upset increases your heart rate, but if you're already fucking your heart over with lard and sugar, it's not going to be exactly resilient in the first place.  Amused by the passive aggression of the reporter, guessing they're a ham. Unfortunately I am limited to my smart phone so links to the doctors who wrote the paper (Rebecca Pearl and Tom Wadden) are a bit iffy, but surprisingly both are slim.  That said, this quote about the questionnaire feedback was 'interesting': They [the obese hams] assumed these internalised feelings were a result of receiving personally directed or general negative messages about weight, aka fat shaming.> So at face value any suggestion to help a person to lose weight is 'terrible' and we shouldn't do it in case it kills people. But if you read that quite properly, it's coming across (to me anyway), that basically, even if a doctor is trying to encourage an obeseast to lose weight for health reasons, if the obeseast's fat saturated brain opts to take offense for a medical professional having the audacity to suggest healthier living, which their sugar addled brains will as we all know, the obese fuckers' REEEing in response is going to increase their likelihood of heart disease.  There's literally no winning (for the doctors.) Brackets because, you know, if they decide to REEE and ultimately die as a result of having their fupa feelings hurt,  that's less hams to have to try to walk on egg shells around.  Just was very bemused by how the study is presented in a so so online 'news source'. Seems there's a bit of a causal relationship between the HAES movement's gaining traction in Ireland and our own folks' steadily expanding waist lines.  But what do I know? I'm obviously a 'terrible person'. After all, it's scientist-approved