As a dietician, I have to disagree with many of the statements made by this page. Someone's health is definitely something that should be a concern if their loved ones, in my opinion. I was wondering why you thought that it was a personal issue only.

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It’s funny how easily the words “should be” are bandied about when talking about the perception of body size and health, in particular. You do know that your personal ethics doesn’t extend to any other human outside your own head, right?

(that is, unless you’re about to be made the Emperor of the World. And even then, I’d be first in line to organize the Resistance)

People also love to get really absolutist when it comes to body size and health. Like you can sit there and blithely make the implicit connection between the two, and it never occurs to you that if in fact the relationship between body size and health is as overblown as current (without an obvious bias) research is saying it is, saying, “Loved ones should be concerned about your health” doesn’t mean “Loved ones should be concerned about your body size.”

Finally, no, your health it is not objectively anyone else’s business. Loved ones can *choose* to care, and they can then project their own views, partial information, and biases on the subject on the people they’re concerned about. But that person doesn’t have to agree that their concern is justified, nor does that person have to do anything about it, nor does that person even have to receive that concern gracefully.

If you love someone, it doesn’t obligate that person to put up with the imposition of *your* perception of the world on *them.*

No matter how right you think you are, or how wrong you think they are.

-ArteToLife