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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: The Health At Every Size Movement focusing on healthy diet and exercise is more helpful in fighting obesity than traditional programs that target weight as the enemy.

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We can agree that obesity causes health problems. The research I've seen suggests that targeting weight as the enemy does not help people lose weight; if anything traditional dieting leads to further weight gain than it does weight loss. Am I healthier than someone larger than myself because I am thin? I used to smoke, my diet is atrocious, my mile is 20 minutes, and I drink beer every night. The current state of health criticism means that I am viewed as healthy because of my BMI, but a person 20 pounds heavier than me who has been eating a healthy diet for years, exercises 4 times a week, and doesn't smoke/drinks occasionally is viewed as less healthy than myself.  Do we really benefit from making weight the enemy and not unhealthy life choices?
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Most people, however, don't fit into that category. If you are eating healthy, don't drink/smoke, and exercise 4 times a week you're not going to be overweight/obese. The problem comes from people who *think* the eat healthy and whose exercise consists of walking into the gym and not doing activities that actually add to their health.  

People notoriously under track how many calories they consume. They also "believe" some items, such as sports drinks and granola, are healthier than they are.

Focusing on being healthy should be the goal, but "healthy at any weight" vastly underrepresents the problems with obesity.