HAES has a decent point at its core. Screaming at fat and sedentary people to put the burgers down and go for a run is not an effective way to get them to live

HAES has a decent point at its core. Screaming at fat and sedentary people to put the burgers down and go for a run is not an effective way to get them to live more healthily. Better to get them walking around the block a few times a week as an ongoing habit than do three sessions of max heart rate cardio and quit. There's a move to destigmatise obesity, but the academics who support that still want to lower obesity, which is not the same thing as other protected groups.