Day 6 Flashcards
(17 cards)
What is healthism?
Your personal health is entirely your responsibility within your control
Moral obligation to be healthy
What are the 2 competing views on promoting health from the 2011 analysis from Welsh?
Anti-fat camp - pushing weight monitoring and fat loss to be healthy
Health at every size camp - critical of weight as the barometer of health
Both tend to ignore social norms and pressures to modify themselves to love their looks
What is the problem with societal influence on body?
It is wrong to tell a woman how to feel about her body but it is acceptable to encourage women to loose weight for their health
What are the 3 contradicting questions in Welsh’s study?
Should unhealthy food be taxed more heavily?
Should overweight and obese people have to pay higher tax for healthcare?
Should kids be required to increase their heart rates up at school?
Will making obesity an individualized problem than a large scale problem encouraging a healthier population?
The costs of ‘treating obesity’ outweigh the personal preference a person has to not follow diet and exercise guidelines
Is there a social ethic to obesity?
Obesity is preventable and to become obese is to fail to moderate ones behaviour
How can fat acceptance begin?
Starts with position that everybody regardless of size is worthy of love, respect and dignity
Promote dignity, equality
Understand that size is not a direct correlation to health
What does HAES represent?
Health at every size in Linda Bacon’s book
Highlights the dangers of weight discrimination
What dangers are associated with with weight discrimination?
Ignores science of weight loss
Ignores dangers of promoting eating disorders
Underfunded compared to other diseases
What is the new peace movement?
Focus on the joy of movement and self-esteem building
What are alternatives to weight to promote health?
The goal to move without being winded
Be healthy enough to play with kids
What is bo po?
Body positive movement from the 1960s
What does ASDAH represent?
Associated fro size diversity and health
What criteria uses HAES label programs include?
Weight inclusivity
Health enhancement
Respectful enhancement
Respectful care
Eating fro well-being
Life enhancing movement
‘Self appointed moral guardians”
What is the ‘good fatty’ of Gibsons research?
Healthism inherent in the HAES and BoPo movements emphasize the moral duties of good fat
Is innocent with HAES rules but face biological inevitability
Does everything right bit is still big -> forces them to do it by the rules
Are fat people able to do everything thin people can in terms of physicality?
No. Must reduce the belief that physical embodiment is destructive to social justice
Why is sport considered healthy despite the injuries associated with it?
Despite the injuries, concussions, physical injury goals in sports, normalized pain, there are mental and physiological benefits to sport and its long term benefits to individuals and public
