Designer Falguni Peacock and Sara Ali Khan get called out - Page 14

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

This is not healthy. Fat is not unhealthy. Health is not determined by body shape or size. Health is determined by how your body is functioning from the inside.

If a fat person loses weight due to cancer and chemo, you're not supposed to say - congrats on the weight loss, you must be so healthy.

Thin people have heart disease and diabetes. Thin people can be weak, lack speed, stamina, and endurance. Fat people can be completely healthy. They can be strong, play sports, and have stamina and endurance.

Body positivity means that no one should be shamed for the body they have. No one should be made to feel ugly or less desirable based on their appearances. No one should be teased or bullied based on their appearances. Everyone deserves the opportunity to wear clothing that makes them look good and feel good.

Body positivity is not supposed to and should not comment on health and fitness. It simply is about making people feel good no matter what they look like.

I call BS on people who use health and fitness as an excuse to body shame. Health and fitness is between a person and their physician. It is up to a licensed medical professional to determine if a person's weight, appearance, and lifestyle are detrimental to their health or not. What do we as a layperson know about the person's health and fitness? Can we look at a person and say what their blood sugar or blood pressure is? Can we look at a person and determine how much they can deadlift or how many miles they can run? Do we know why exactly they are skinny or fat by looking at them? So leave the health discussion to doctors and focus on being kind as human beings.

That being said sometimes the body positivity movement does take it too far. Many doctors feel unable to share honest and transparent facts about a person's health. Doctors have been made to feel guilty for telling people to lose weight or exercise more. There is nothing wrong in expecting doctors to be tactful (bedside manners) but that should not prevent them from being truthful. Body positivity should never prevent health professionals from doing their job. And whenever body positivity interferes with health professionals - only then should we call out the movement.

Only sane comment I saw on this thread.

Why is everyone fighting for the right to call fat people fat? What pleasure will you get by that? Is it to make one feel superior? Also, let's not pretend we care about every Tom, Dick and Harry's health to call them fat.

And obesity is not equal to fat. Being plump is not synonymous to overweight. Well tonned arms with a 24 inch waist is not what your average middle class can afford.

If someone is a plus size, it doesn't always mean they're unhealthy or that they have a bad diet/lifestyle. Some people just have a different body shape. Take Ananya for example, she's told by many to gain weight because she is looking too skinny but that's just how her body shape is, she's not anorexic. What's more annoying are people calling someone thin like Priyanka Chopra, fat. How the hell is she even fat?!

There's a difference between being a plus size and being obese. One is a body shape, other is a health issue.

Falguni's second answer should have been her first answer. She's a fashion designer, not a doctor.

Originally posted by: anjs

Amusing and one-sided statement......... people with less activity, no workout and eating junk food everyday also become fat without any medical reason.......but yes, medical issues crop up once the obesity becomes constant in life.....

As for people who cannot loose weight, she did give a tip to not wear low necks etc......

That was a rhetorical question.