Warning- the following post contains science.

I promise you, you will survive through to the other side if you take it slowly, get a glass of water, and put on some nice music for the next four minutes. I’ve tried to be as straightforward as possible, but maths tends to make some people run screaming. Google can help.

THIS- this statement- is precisely why I refuse to give up on any of you. You are all woefully misinformed, and I refuse to let you wallow in scientific ignorance and labour under the false impression that obesity can be healthy or that such conditions are inevitable. I am here, and I continue to answer questions, because public science education is absolutely fundamental to a better society.



I have received questions asking me to give up on trying to change minds- but when I see questions like this, I cannot, I will not, give up on you.





Source: Prospective Studies Collaboration, . (2009). Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies The Lancet, 373 (9669), 1083-1096 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60318-4

These graphs are why I refuse to not help you. Look at them closely- they show a clear relationship between the proportion of fat on ones’ body and their remaining lifespan. Literally. Look at the axis label on the left- you will notice that it says “Alive (%)”. My explanations? My comments, my questions, and my constant refusal to give up on you? I am trying to be the difference between you being on the blue line or the purple line. I am trying to drag you up across the line- and the sooner I can get through to you, the more years of life you recover.

Source: Prospective Studies Collaboration, . (2009). Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies The Lancet, 373 (9669), 1083-1096 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60318-4

This graph, from the same study, demonstrates an undeniable dose-dependent relationship between body mass in kilograms and Blood pressure in mm Hg (that’s milliliters of Mercury, since you have no experience in this field).

Your claim- that “it doesn’t have to do with being fat”- is here proved demonstrably incorrect. You are wrong, in the plainest of terms.

Source: Sepehri A, Palazón-Bru A, Gil-Guillén VF, Ramírez-Prado D, Navarro-Cremades F, Cortés E, Rizo-Baeza MM. (2015) Diabetes screening: a pending issue in hypertense/obese patients. PeerJ :e914 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.914

This graph demonstrates that obesity has a definitive impact upon cardiovascular risk. If you haven’t read a scientific paper before, and you clearly have not, you might wonder what the little ‘p<0.001′ means on those graphs. P here stands for probability- where 1 is 100% and 0 is 0%. This probability demonstrates the mathematical certainty of the results of the study in question. You will notice here that their study has achieved less than a 0.1% chance of any of these claims being incorrect. That means that you, the person who has made the claim of obesity not being a factor in determining the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, have less than a 0.1% chance of being correct.



The science, mathematics and research techniques being employed here are top notch. If you do not believe me, you are wrong. If you disagree, you are wrong. Well, at least I’m 99.9% sure- literally and mathematically- that you are wrong.

Now, onto your claim about diabetes and genes.

The following image is taken from the medical research blog of the UC San Diego Health System. It was made in response to research that deals specifically with your statement about it being ‘in your genes’.

These scientists, with literally molecular precision, have definitively proven in a cause-and-effect scenario that you are wrong. They have clearly and positively identified proteins and cellular subsystems that always activate inflammation, and the resulting type II diabetes, because of the influence of fat cells.

Image source: Bushman, H, PhD. (2015). Molecular Link between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Reveals Potential Therapy. UC San Diego Health System Blog. https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2015-02-23-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-molecular-link.aspx

Research source: Li, P., Oh, D., Bandyopadhyay, G., Lagakos, W., Talukdar, S., Osborn, O., Johnson, A., Chung, H., Mayoral, R., Maris, M., Ofrecio, J., Taguchi, S., Lu, M. and Olefsky, J. (2015). LTB4 promotes insulin resistance in obese mice by acting on macrophages, hepatocytes and myocytes. Nat Med. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.3800

Scientists smarter than you or I could ever hope to be spend their entire lives sitting in dark rooms looking under microscopes and firing lasers into magnetised protein crystals (yes, that’s a real thing) JUST TO SHUT PEOPLE LIKE YOU UP. This research was published in Nature- the single most famous scientific journal on the planet alongside Science.

When someone’s entire career is literally dedicated to doing stuff that sounds like something out of Star Wars just to prove you wrong, you don’t get to argue. You’re not on their level. You’re not even close.





This long winded, graph and maths-heavy rambling is my desperate attempt to show you how misinformed you are. To beg with you to please, please God, reconsider your ideas. Reconsider the idea that being obese can be healthy- because it literally cannot be healthy. Reconsider the idea that being obese is not a choice- because it literally is. If you reconsider now and listen to me, you will gain back years of your life that you are otherwise cutting out of existence.

I have done my research. Have you?