my health law class today is about public health interventions, and the example problem we’re working on is about obesity.

there’s a lot in this discussion that is valuable and important to learn in the field of health law - about access to healthy food, health risks due to poor diet or not enough physical activity, how income effects access to healthcare, what law and policy has to do with public health.

but while the professor mentioned that obese people can be healthy and thin people with a poor diet can get diabetes, she still made OBESITY the middle of the thought map.

even when we all acknowledge that obesity is pretty much irrelevant, it remains the center of the discussion about health, without even thinking about it.

thin privilege is thoughtlessly (and wrongly) treating another’s body as a public health crisis.