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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: being fat is an eating disorder too. (TW)

Discard from that simplified statement the obvious outliers, such as those with thyroid issues or other health impediments.


We drink water when we are thirsty, we don't obsessively binge water (again, ignore conditions like diabetes which have a physiological effect on thirst).


Food should be no different. We have energy requirements, so we should eat to meet our bodies' needs.


Excessively counting calories and starving ourselves in order to hit arbitrary weight loss goals, or even good goals in an unhealthy manner, is rightly considered to he an eating disorder. The damage it does to our bodies is immeasurable and well documented.


Similarly, eating obsessively in such a way that we overstep the guidelines our native appetites naturally impose on us is a form of eating disorder.


The prevailing narrative right now is about body positivity, which is quite a noble one. Nobody should be bullied or harassed for their bodies. However, a harmful consensus has emerged where we are now discouraged from speaking negatively about the state of being fat, partly out of fears that we will induce eating disorders in people as they attempt to lose weight.


This fear of calling a spade a spade normalises the deadliest and most common eating disorder in existence right now. We shouldn't be afraid to call being fat an eating disorder in case it causes in an inverted eating disorder.
gpt
No it's not really. Grocery stores didn't exist in the natural environment humans evolved in and where all these eating behaviors come from. Your brain wants you to take every opportunity to sit on your ass all day and eat ice cream, because in nature it thinks this is going to be a rare occurrence and you will have to go back to failing to hunt deer tomorrow and that extra fat will help you survive.