A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview

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    12 hours ago

    A person isn’t made any healthier by magically becoming thin.

    Not really true. Your joints will thank you for the lower weight they have to support. However, I do agree that that is not the good way. You should work out and eat less junk food/sweets/fatty stuff. Doing that will make you healthier, and getting thin is a natural byproduct of that.

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        They will certainly have some problems later on. Many professional body builders are having joint and bone issues. Markus Rühl once gave an interview where he said (roughly translated) “My body is basically a wreck. My body is just kept together by the muscles”.

        However, muscles are also supporting the body, fat doesn’t. So while having excessive muscles will be a problem at some point, being fat is a much bigger problem much earlier.

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      Less weight on the joints sure, but reactive hypoglycemia and iron deficiency also. Less weight on the joint can help you pursue health by making activity less destructive to joints, but if you don’t become more active, being thin does nothing by itself. Sounds like we are largely in agreement but I don’t think being thin is a goal at all. Obesity is a bar set too low. I think my wife might be back to obese at 150lbs, and she is still thin af to me. Sex sucked when she was skin and bones.

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        being thin does nothing by itself

        Yes, basically. You have to pursue the healthy lifestyle that leads to being thing is what I’m trying to say.