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Also, it should be pointed out that the whole fat acceptance movement started to try to make fat people feel better about themselves. Because:

Fat = bullying and discrimination
Bullying and Discrimination = Depression and higher risk of suicide

There are papers linking obesity to higher suicide rates. Is being obese unhealthy? Yes. Should people with unhealthy habits work on improving that? Also yes. But people take the fat acceptance movement at face value and misunderstand. It's there to help prevent people from feeling worse about themselves and going down that path towards depression and suicide. "They shouldn't be okay with being fat" Okay? But the solution shouldn't be to tear them down. That's not productive.