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Jacob Riis Beach hosts the day of body positivity and fun, in the city at the heart of the fat acceptance movement

Fat Beach Day events are springing up across the US in an effort to fight back against fat-phobia, reclaim safe spaces for the community and honor plus-size culture. Today, one of these celebrations is being held to coincide with Pride month at Jacob Riis Beach in New York, a location deeply ensconced in the city’s activism space.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Again, that is not attacking the problem at the source. Unlike smoking and drinking, you have to eat to survive. And corporations have taken that necessity and twisted it so that people are not making healthy choices.

And there is still the problem of having the energy to cook when you're a wage slave.

No amount of "stop overeating and exercise" campaigns can solve those issues. You have to attack them at the source.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Unlike smoking and drinking, you have to eat to survive.

Except you don't need to stress eat or eat when you're bored. At some point you're eating over the calories required just for living. To act like what you're eating is the only problem is disingenuous.

More often its why your eating and how much.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Which is what they said in their comment.

"If we can attack the problem at the source..."

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And the issue can be spun in many different ways, but it always comes back to a single simple source, overeating.

That is all there is to it. Not if you can cook or exercise. Not if you buy fancy feasts or a bag of carrots and dip. It is only about overeating.

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