THE BODY NEGATIVITY MOVEMENT

The body negativity movement is founded in response to the increasingly dangerous body positivity movement. Although the body positivity movement was started to promote happiness and acceptance, it has emboldened a generation of unhealthy blobs. Being obese, nay, fat, puts one at risk for many of the medical conditions currently plaguing the human race.

According to the 2019 Global Burden of Disease Study, high systolic blood pressure was the leading risk factor globally for death. Elevated body mass index (BMI) and obesity is one of the major risk factors for developing high systolic blood pressure. Other high level risk factors in the study included obesity and overweightness independently, as well as high blood sugar, another medical issue frequently associated with elevated BMI. Additionally, these risk factors are some of the fastest growing since 2010 among those tracked.

What does this all mean? We were fat. We still are fat. More of us are getting fatter. Being fat is bad, makes us unhealthy, and expedites the arrival of death.

We should not be happy or accepting that we are getting collectively less healthy and more likely to die sooner. We should be very upset! We should have strongly negative feelings about this progression of our bulbous bodies.

Enter the Body Negativity Movement. We recognize our fatness is bad and refuse to accept it any longer. We will do whatever it takes to not be fat. We will be jacked, again.

Do not misrepresent us. We are not shaming people for being fat (unless you are our close friend, then we will aggressively shame you), as we ourselves have been, and sometimes are, fat. We are stating that humanity should not accept this fatness as normal and OK. If you truly are happy with your bloated body and willing to accept chronic disease as well as earlier death, then, by all means, continue as you are. However, the solution for most people’s bulbous body disorder should be appropriate ACTION to fix the problem.

We have the information and the tools necessary to reject this fatness. We are here to provide that information to people so that they, too, can be jacked, again. Instead of commiserating over being fat and pretending to accept that fat body, we can use objective measures of fitness and health to identify areas of improvement.

It takes time. There will be failures along the way. Many, many failures. But we will persist on the perpetual pursuit of being jacked.