Yeah it is complicated etc but so are the reasons people smoke or drink but most people don’t give them a hug and a free pass.
Take care of your health, and if taking care if your health is complicated, make it your main project in life.
It’s funny to see how society is really busy judging you if you are fat and is also horrified you if you choose surgery to fix the problem. Or cryo. Or any medical intervention at all.
I am not sure if this is puritanjan attitude, or just considered 'cheating'.
People judge their friends and kids for being low energy and call it lazy, but can't even screen for vitamin D defficiency or Long covid that could be causing it.
>Yeah it is complicated etc but so are the reasons people smoke or drink but most people don’t give them a hug and a free pass.
No one cares about social drinking, and smoking is considered bad because smokers stink.
Using the latter as a proxy for the former makes strong assumptions around how you're built (musculature, torso length to leg length, broadness of chest, arm length, etc).
And people say 'oh but BMI is not relevant' it is not if you have the physique of a (an American) Football player and even then.
For most people, BMI is not too far from reality.