I like to be clear about the language we use, too. For instance "healthy" has little inherently to do with size or weight (though undoubtedly a lot of people experience weight changes in one way or another when they're sick or simply eating crap & being inactive); "fit" is specific to your activity - you can be "fit" for sitting on the sofa, which isn't healthy. I think taking steps to be healthy & fit for whatever activities you want to do is a GREAT idea. Tying those two things to weight is, in my opinion (and that of most fattivists), a mistake.
Weightloss dieting, particularly with repeated gain & loss over months or years, has been shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk. That's what I mean when I say dieting is often unhealthy.
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Date: 2007-09-11 09:01 pm (UTC)I like to be clear about the language we use, too. For instance "healthy" has little inherently to do with size or weight (though undoubtedly a lot of people experience weight changes in one way or another when they're sick or simply eating crap & being inactive); "fit" is specific to your activity - you can be "fit" for sitting on the sofa, which isn't healthy. I think taking steps to be healthy & fit for whatever activities you want to do is a GREAT idea. Tying those two things to weight is, in my opinion (and that of most fattivists), a mistake.
Weightloss dieting, particularly with repeated gain & loss over months or years, has been shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk. That's what I mean when I say dieting is often unhealthy.