I READ some truly shocking news in The Sun this week.
No, it’s not the Beckhams pulling out the world’s least narcissistic violins to play the victim for their new self-promotional Netflix documentary.
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Plus-sized celebrities like rapper Lizza are helping push the ‘completely made-up idea’ that you can be fat and fit Credit: Getty
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Body Positive influencer Tess Holliday ‘isn’t just overweight, she’s morbidly obese’ Credit: Getty
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Stars who trade on their obesity need to stop fooling themselves – and the public, says Piers
(Spoiler alert: I’m afraid I’m one of the people Victoria apparently ‘still wants to kill’ because she was so brutal 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 bombshell revelation that you can’t be fat AND fit.
So knock me down with a hamburger-scented pen!
I wasn’t at all surprised to see that something I’ve been telling everyone for years was confirmed.
But it was heartening to discover that there is now irrefutable proof that being obese is not healthy, that it is likely to cause your early death.
German medical researchers have examined whether the increasingly popular new concept of metabolically healthy obesity is correct. The firm answer is no, of course not. . .
The idea that you can be fat and fit, or obese and healthy, is a myth, a stupid, nonsensical, completely made-up idea aggressively and selfishly promoted by high-profile celebrities like rapper Lizzo, supermodel Ashley Graham, and so on. so-called “Body Positive” influencers like Tess Holliday.
A detailed study found that not only do obese 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, researchers have concluded that removing the fat tree is the single most effective way to avoid the health problems that come with obesity.
On one level, this is almost ridiculously obvious, a bit like saying that drinking less alcohol will be good for your liver.
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But the reason this poll is so important is because the whole “Body Positivity” movement has become one of the most dangerous threats to health in the world.
It replaced the shameful and equally dangerous “heroin chic” craze that encouraged young women to look bone-thin.
And it is fueled by famous women who have a commercial interest in gullible people believing their nonsense, and cynical magazine editors who stick them on their covers pretending to be inspirational.
A few years ago, this potentially deadly conspiracy came to a head when the British magazine Cosmopolitan put Tess Holliday on its cover.
She wore a green bathing suit and sent kisses, under the caption: “SUPERMODEL RIČE! TESS HOLLIDAY WANTS HER HATERS TO KISS IN THE GUP.”
That would take a lot of kissing, considering Holliday is only 5 feet 3 inches tall but weighs more than 21.
As such, she is not only obese, she is morbidly obese.
‘What a delusion’
I’m not about being a “fat shaming fathead” because the Body Positive mob is always instantly screaming at anyone who dares to challenge them with the cold hard truths. It is a scientific fact. The medical establishment gives that definition to anyone who is more than 100 lbs (7.) overweight or has a body mass index — the ratio of an individual’s height to his or her weight — of 40 or more.
Morbid obesity, as its name suggests, is a very serious and, in most cases, fatal health condition.
Those diagnosed have a higher risk of diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure, gallstones, osteoarthritis, heart disease and cancer.
In other words, it will kill you.
Nevertheless, Cosmo inexplicably and recklessly enthroned Tess Holliday and declared her “a role model for others who are excluded in this way”, “completely fair” and “everything the fashion industry needs right now” because she “does not conform to a narrow standard beauty set by society”.
What a deceptive poppycock!
In an accompanying interview, Holliday insisted, “I’m having the hardest time of my life right now, and it took me the hardest to finally love myself.”
Unfortunately, she lied – to us and to herself.
No one, man or woman, could see their weight jump over 21 if they’re only 5ft 3in tall and suddenly love themselves.
But I can see how easy it is for people like Tess Holliday to get trapped in such a hellish spiral of self-delusion when their great fame and fortune depend entirely on remaining morbidly obese.
When outrage erupted over her Cosmo cover, Holliday posted a half-naked photo of herself on Instagram to her 1.7 million followers, with the caption: “Damn . . . that looks good.”
Her friend Lizzo told her to do it.
The same Lizzo who spews similar nonsense, claiming: “I know I’m fat. I do not mind. I like being fat, I’m beautiful and healthy. Can we move on?”
Not so fast, young lady; now you’re a huge star with a huge young female fanbase who hang on your every word and it’s just not accurate to say you’re “healthy”.
‘A Mad World Ravaged by Awakening’
All this comes at a time when Britain is getting fatter, with 28 per cent of us now obese compared to just ONE PER cent in 1950.
More than 60 percent of us are overweight, and that number is expected to rise to a staggering 80 percent by 2060.
We have the third highest obesity rate in Europe.
But because of the crazy vigilante-ravaged world we have to endure these days, calling someone “fat” is now practically a hate crime. Instead, we’re constantly encouraged to celebrate obesity as if it’s some kind of trophy we should all strive for, when in reality, it’s a fast track to an early grave.
And before the Body Positivity mob starts screaming “what about you Fatso?” on me, let me state for the record that I am not a perfect body either.
I’m 6ft 1in and weigh about 15st 5lb.
My doctor says I’m reasonably fit for a 58-year-old man, but he’d like me to get under 14st 4lbs – so would I.
That’s why I work out in the gym or ride a Peloton bike three times a week and watch what I eat and drink.
Unlike Tess Holliday and Lizzo, when I see my chubby photo, I don’t pop the champagne corks, cringe and put the corks back in their bottles.
Losing weight is not easy.
But if you’re fat, it matters, and the first step is brutal honesty.
Celebrities who trade on their obesity need to stop fooling themselves and the public and, for their own good, become truly fit and healthy by losing weight.
THAT would be what I call a Body Positive campaign.
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Tess Holliday on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine
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If you’re overweight, losing weight is essential — and the first step is brutal honesty Credit: Getty
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