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Being fat is a serious health issue. Sugar coating it doesn’t help anyone. It enables unhealthy behavior even more than it already is.
Just being considered fat is not an health risk to the amount you think it is. A very large amount of research attributing fat directly to certain issues is outdated.
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/31021
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0060237
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9102424/
Your linked article directly says being fat makes you sick.
Fat acceptance kills people.
They don't unless they are referring to other studies. Also, they are extremely clear on the different situations and not just with "being fat" unlike how you are implying.
Medical malpractice and such dangerous generalisations from both medics and non-medics kills people.
Your links say nothing of the sort. They only say, if you‘re fat and diabetic your insulin levels are fucked and it’s difficult to treat.
Did you even read them, or are you purposefully being misleading? Because with such a comment I am very much inclined on the second