Nicky Reardon

Like, yes, you could eat nothing but lettuce for seven days and your BMI would go down. However, you would be extremely malnourished. You would have no energy. You would be grouchy. Your pieces of your body would start to shut down. right? Like you would not be healthy while you would be skinny or these measures of what health is would look like you are being more healthy than you were a week ago.

Like, yes, you could eat nothing but lettuce for seven days and your BMI would go down. However, you would be extremely malnourished. You would have no energy. You would be grouchy. Your pieces of your body would start to shut down. right? Like you would not be healthy while you would be skinny or these measures of what health is would look like you are being more healthy than you were a week ago.

You would not actually be healthy. Like in this conversation of skinniness versus health, there is no discussion of like nutrients and macros and like, are you getting a protein? Like, are you having a well-balanced diet, right? Like that is what health is. Health is a requirement for that. Like you need protein and

You would not actually be healthy. Like in this conversation of skinniness versus health, there is no discussion of like nutrients and macros and like, are you getting a protein? Like, are you having a well-balanced diet, right? Like that is what health is. Health is a requirement for that. Like you need protein and

potassium and vitamin c and all of the salt like your body needs salt and like sodium like these are these are important things um and the way that people are really trying to sell this idea of health is this idea of skinniness and that is not true i mean again like it's nice if you want like if you want to look that way if that makes you feel satisfied and happy and confident go for it but also this idea of somebody being like well you are not super skinny therefore you are not healthy i

potassium and vitamin c and all of the salt like your body needs salt and like sodium like these are these are important things um and the way that people are really trying to sell this idea of health is this idea of skinniness and that is not true i mean again like it's nice if you want like if you want to look that way if that makes you feel satisfied and happy and confident go for it but also this idea of somebody being like well you are not super skinny therefore you are not healthy i

Or the idea of somebody skinny is healthy. Great example of this, I have a friend. I won't say her name because I didn't ask her if I could tell this story. But she was born with a heart disease. Like she has had to get open heart surgery at least once in her life. I think multiple times and also had said by doctors like at some point later in years.

Or the idea of somebody skinny is healthy. Great example of this, I have a friend. I won't say her name because I didn't ask her if I could tell this story. But she was born with a heart disease. Like she has had to get open heart surgery at least once in her life. I think multiple times and also had said by doctors like at some point later in years.

Like she will have to get open heart surgery again. And she has an incredible body. Incredible. Literally, I've been with her. We're at the pool literally this past weekend. And I think three separate people came up to her and like compliment how good she looks.

Like she will have to get open heart surgery again. And she has an incredible body. Incredible. Literally, I've been with her. We're at the pool literally this past weekend. And I think three separate people came up to her and like compliment how good she looks.

But it is because she has a lot of like metabolism issues and these issues with her heart and her issue with blood pressure and blood sugar and all of these things. So her body actually like cannot maintain mass.

But it is because she has a lot of like metabolism issues and these issues with her heart and her issue with blood pressure and blood sugar and all of these things. So her body actually like cannot maintain mass.

And it's actually a very deep health problem that she has to be like very extremely conscious of and eat things and have a lot of protein and like eat certain snacks and eat certain amounts of sugar, blah, blah, blah, blah. And to 99% of the world, if you look at this girl and showed like a picture of her in a bikini, people would be like, this is healthy. She's she looks amazing.

And it's actually a very deep health problem that she has to be like very extremely conscious of and eat things and have a lot of protein and like eat certain snacks and eat certain amounts of sugar, blah, blah, blah, blah. And to 99% of the world, if you look at this girl and showed like a picture of her in a bikini, people would be like, this is healthy. She's she looks amazing.

She's so healthy. And she's by definition, not healthy. Like she has a heart condition. She has a disability sticker on her car because like if she goes walking too long, like it's it is bad for her heart, right? So like, this is like this big misconception and like a scary thing of this idea of like,

She's so healthy. And she's by definition, not healthy. Like she has a heart condition. She has a disability sticker on her car because like if she goes walking too long, like it's it is bad for her heart, right? So like, this is like this big misconception and like a scary thing of this idea of like,

Thinness equals hotness and hotness equals health when these three are three completely separate things, which is terrifying to me. And another really fascinating thing about this is the ideal body type, in quotes, is always changing. And I'll give you multiple examples of this. From the 15th century to the 17th century during the Renaissance period, the ideal body was to be plus size.

Thinness equals hotness and hotness equals health when these three are three completely separate things, which is terrifying to me. And another really fascinating thing about this is the ideal body type, in quotes, is always changing. And I'll give you multiple examples of this. From the 15th century to the 17th century during the Renaissance period, the ideal body was to be plus size.

They called it plump a lot of the time because it showed that you were of higher social status than the peasants. You had more money to have excess food. You didn't have to work some job in the field or in the sun or labor anymore. that would cause you to lose weight.

They called it plump a lot of the time because it showed that you were of higher social status than the peasants. You had more money to have excess food. You didn't have to work some job in the field or in the sun or labor anymore. that would cause you to lose weight.