Weight Loss Does Not Confer Immunity to Anything
If you are watching television, listening to the radio, participating in any sort of social media, and/or engaging in conversation with other humans at this time, odds are high that you’ve heard something about boosting your immune system.
You may or may not know this about me, but I listen to sports radio in the morning. Not because I glean wisdom from it, or remember anything of substance so that I may be a sports conversationalist. I am not.
I listen to sports radio @985thesportshub because, in the morning, it’s funny and lighthearted and is often something that allows my husband and me to start our days similarly. (🤍@toucherandrichofficial)
And, now, more than ever, I am hearing these stupid ads that say things along the lines of “lose weight, bolster your immune system, and feel great/healthy/whatever.”
WEIGHT LOSS DOES NOT CONFER IMMUNITY TO ANYTHING.
There is no such thing as a condition that exists in only large bodies or only small bodies. Zero things.
Skimming the research that exists right now about COVID-19 and increased risk being related to body size is demonstrating overt weight stigma, poor scientific practice, and little else. And you might be hearing and seeing things that dispute what I’m suggesting.
Those things, like most things that come out of weight centric research, are skewed heavily and are designed to reinforce systemic weight stigma that blames humans in larger bodies for their health outcomes.
CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION.
Bad science is bad science is bad science. This virus is new. We don’t know how to treat it. The statements being made connecting body size to health outcomes are based heavily in weight bias.
Weight loss does not confer immunity to anything.
Being stressed about food and movement changes the body, in that stress itself, results in a dampened immune system. No thank you.
I’m now turning off the radio.
You can do the same.
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