Maybe now teenagers will see the 'Body Positivity' craze for what it really is
I read some really shocking news in The Sun this week.
No, it wasn't the Beckhams who pulled out the world's tiniest narcissistic violins to play the victim for their new self-promotional Netflix documentary.
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(Spoiler alert: I'm afraid I'm one of the people who apparently 'still wants to kill' Victoria for being so beastly to poor David when he cost us the 1998 World Cup by getting sent off for a stupid act of petulance .)
No, it was the revelation that you can't be fat AND fit.
Well, hit me with a hamburger-scented feather!
I wasn't even remotely surprised to see confirmation of something I'd been telling everyone for years.
But it was encouraging to discover that there is now irrefutable evidence that obesity is not healthy, but is likely to lead to premature death.
German medical researchers investigated whether the increasingly popular new concept of metabolically healthy obesity is correct.
And the established answer is no, of course it damn well isn't. . .
The idea that you can be fat and fit, or obese and healthy, is a myth, a stupid, nonsensical, completely fabricated idea aggressively and selfishly promoted by plus-size celebrities like rapper Lizzo, supermodel Ashley Graham, and so on…called “Body Positive” influencers like Tess Holliday.
The in-depth study found that not only do fat people have a significantly increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, but even those who are obese but otherwise appear healthy are 50 percent more susceptible to heart disease.
And what's the best way to improve your health if you're fat?
Lose weight.
Yes, the researchers concluded that shedding fatwood is the most effective way to prevent the health problems associated with obesity.
On one level this is almost ridiculously obvious, a bit like saying that drinking less alcohol is good for your liver.
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But the reason this research is so important is because the whole Body Positivity movement has become one of the most dangerous health threats in the world.
It has replaced the shameful and equally dangerous heroin chic craze that encouraged young women to look emaciated.
And it's fueled by famous women who have a vested commercial interest in gullible people believing their nonsense, and by cynical magazine editors who slap them on the cover and pretend they're inspiring.
Several years ago, this potentially deadly conspiracy reached its nadir when Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine put Tess Holliday on its cover.
She wore a green swimsuit and blew a kiss, under the headline: “A SUPERMODEL ROARS! TESS HOLLIDAY WANTS THE HATERS TO KISS HER ASS.”
That would take a lot of kissing, considering Holliday is only 6 feet tall but weighs over 21.
As such, not only is she obese, she is also morbidly obese.
'What delusions'
That's not me being a “fat bastard” as the Body Positive crowd always immediately yells at anyone who dares to challenge them with cold, hard truths. It's a scientific fact. The medical community gives this definition to anyone who is more than 100 pounds overweight or has a Body Mass Index (the ratio of a person's height to his or her weight) of 40 or more.
Morbid obesity, as the name suggests, is a very serious and in most cases fatal health condition.
Those diagnosed are at greater risk for diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, gallstones, osteoarthritis, heart disease and cancer.
In other words, it will kill you.
Yet Cosmo inexplicably and recklessly enthroned Tess Holliday, declaring her “a role model for others who have been excluded in this way,” “downright honest,” and “everything the fashion industry needs right now” because she “ not meeting the narrow standard of beauty set by society.”
What a deceptive poppycock!
In the accompanying interview, Holliday insisted, “I'm at the toughest point I've ever been in my life right now and it took the hardest time for me to finally love myself.”
Unfortunately, she lied – to us and to herself.
No one, man or woman, would see their weight rise above 21 if they were only 6 feet tall and suddenly loved themselves.
But I understand how easy it is for people like Tess Holliday to get caught up in such a hellish spiral of self-deception, with their rising fame and fortune completely dependent on remaining morbidly obese.
As the furor arose over her Cosmo cover, Holliday posted a half-naked Instagram photo of herself to her 1.7 million followers, with the caption: “Damn. . . that looks good.”
It was her friend Lizzo who told her to do it.
The same Lizzo who spouts similar nonsense and claims, “I know I'm fat. It doesn't bother me. I like being fat, I'm beautiful and I'm healthy. So can we move on?”
Not so fast, young lady; you're now a huge star with a huge young female fanbase hanging on your every word, and it's just not true to say you're “healthy.”
'Crazy, woke world'
All this comes at a time when Britain is getting fatter, with 28 percent of us now obese, compared to just ONE PERCENT in 1950.
More than 60 percent of us are overweight and this number is expected to rise to as much as 80 percent by 2060.
We have the third highest obesity rate in Europe.
But because of the crazy, woke-ridden world we have to endure these days, calling someone “fat” is now pretty much a hate crime.
Instead, we're constantly urged to celebrate obesity as if it's some kind of trophy we should all want to win, when in reality it's a fast track to an early grave.
And before the Body Positivity crowd starts shouting, “What about you, Fatso?” to me, let me just say for the record that I am not a perfect body myself.
I'm 6 feet tall and weigh about 15.5 pounds.
My doctor says I'm pretty fit for a 58-year-old man, but he'd like to see me get under 14 pounds – and I would.
That's why I work out three times a week at a gym or do a Peloton cycling session and watch what I eat and drink.
Unlike Tess Holliday and Lizzo, when I see a chubby-looking photo of myself, I don't cheer or pop the champagne corks, I just cringe and put the corks back in their bottles.
Losing weight is not easy.
But if you're obese, it's essential, and the first step is brutal honesty.
Celebrities who trade on their obesity need to stop scamming themselves and the public and, for their own good, get truly fit and healthy by losing weight.
Now THAT is what I would call a Body Positive campaign.
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