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Fatphobia and Health - Coggle Diagram
Fatphobia and Health
BMI is a prime indicator of health and weight, but is it accurate?
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The idea to pursue alternatives to neoliberal governmentality to create a better understanding of health and weight
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A transition towards, "the behavior and appearance of individual bodies is far more important (LeBesco, p. 156).
Individuals who have a "healthy bodied" are deemed to be in control of their weight and that means they are a better citizens worthy of more
"Fat=unhealthy=bad"
Important to change this narrative that fatness and different weights are human diversity, not an epidemic
Ask ourselves, "Why does fat have to be unhealthy?"
"It seems to me that we need to look more closely at paths to wellbeing that abstain from the kind of carrot and stick model that beats down those it preemptively deems unhealthy. it is this model that is making me, and many, many others, sick (LeBesco, p. 161)"
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It seems to me that we need to look more closely at paths to wellbeing that abstain from the kind of carrot and stick model that
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me, and many, many others, sick.
It seems to me that we need to look more closely at paths to wellbeing that abstain from the kind of carrot and stick model that
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me, and many, many others, sick.
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(1) "reconfigure and de-pathologize fatness away from its present formulation of medicalized ‘obesity epidemic’; and third, to problematize our moral imperative for health (LeBesco, p. 159)."
(2) "to unhinge fatness from its seemingly (and incorrectly) necessary relationship with ill health (LeBesco, p. 159)."
(3) "problematize our moral imperative for health (LeBesco, p. 159)."
more generally that predominant ways of measuring the obesity epidemic inscribe notions of the normative size that are based on averages and intensify the use of size as the litmus test for health or well-being (Guthman 263)."