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Yes, I suffer from osteo-arthritis. My mobility is directly affected by the amount of weight I'm carrying around on my frame at any given time. My mother suffers from the same thing, and has a host of other complaints over which diet is a factor. Maybe one day I'll be chained to a wheelchair.
I hope this answers your question, though I'm not arguing the point of how to achieve better health, and I keep my own counsel on what I do or do not eat. My point was about prejudice against the overweight, namely that the same prejudice is frequently packaged in the context of helpful or informative advice on how to lose weight, or the notion that weight loss is somehow correlative to looking and feeling better about yourself, when I don't think it necessarily is. Regardless of how I personally feel about my weight, there's still a prejudice in play here.
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