Weight slider and more fat NPCs please!

[RagingStallion]

Assumption: “Overweight” and “obese” people die sooner than leaner people.
False! Almost all epidemiologic studies indicate people in the overweight or moderately obese categories live at least as long—or longer—than people in the normal weight category. The most comprehensive review of the research pooled data from 26 studies and found overweight to be associated with greater longevity than normal weight. Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys I, II, and III, which followed the largest nationally representative cohort of U.S. adults, also determined that the “ideal” weight for longevity was in the “overweight” category.

Assumption: Being “overweight” or “obese” puts people at significant health risk.
False! Epidemiological studies rarely acknowledge factors like fitness, activity, nutrient intake, weight cycling, or socioeconomic status when considering connections between weight and disease. Yet all play a role. When studies do control for these factors, increased risk of disease disappears or is significantly reduced. What’s likely
going on here is that these other factors increase disease risk at the same time they increase the risk of weight gain.

Assumption: Health is declining as a result of an “obesity epidemic.”

False! While it’s true that we’re moderately fatter than we used to be, life expectancy has increased dramatically during the same time period in which our weight rose (from 70.8 years in 1970 to 77.8 years in 2005). That’s right, government statistics predict that the average kid can now expect to live almost eight years longer than his
or her parents! Not only are we living longer than ever before, but we’re healthier than ever and chronic disease is appearing much later in life. Death rates attributed to heart disease have steadily declined throughout the entire spike in obesity. Both the World Health Organization and the Social Security Administration project life expectancy to continue to rise in coming decades. We are simply not seeing the catastrophic consequences predicted to result from the “obesity epidemic.”

Solution: More fat NPCs

Having more fat NPCs like Dulia-Chai promotes fat acceptance and normalization. Government studies show that having fat representation in media and the arts alleviate stress from people of big bodies and promote a healthy self-image and increase self-esteem. This leads to better health outcomes and better mental health outcomes.

Solution: Weight Slider

Studies show that people's happiness and self-esteem increase when character customization options in video games can accurately create characters that look like the player. Once again, this leads to better health and mental health outcomes. For people of big bodies, this comes in the form of a weight slider that allows players to create characters of all sizes.

[Reyna_Balmore]

Nah. More character customization? Yes.

[Fredco191]

I would actually like a weight slider.

[Moonfish]

Do you see a lot of overweight or obese elderly people? No. Because carrying extra weight isn’t healthy or good for longevity. Don’t bring that crap into the game, thanks.

[RagingStallion]

Do you see a lot of overweight or obese elderly people? No. Because carrying extra weight isn’t healthy or good for longevity. Don’t bring that crap into the game, thanks.

False! Almost all epidemiologic studies indicate people in the overweight or moderately obese categories live at least as long—or longer—than people in the normal weight category. The most comprehensive review of the research pooled data from 26 studies and found overweight to be associated with greater longevity than normal weight. Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys I, II, and III, which followed the largest nationally representative cohort of U.S. adults, also determined that the “ideal” weight for longevity was in the “overweight” category.

[Saber44]

Literal idiot

[Jonnycbad]

This is the kind of degenerate stuff I come to the OF to laugh at.

[RagingStallion]

This is the kind of degenerate stuff I come to the OF to laugh at.

It's only degenerate if you have never suffered weight-shaming, body-shaming, and fat-shaming before.

For a peek at what is possible, we can look at Sims 4:

[Edax]

Assumption: “Overweight” and “obese” people die sooner than leaner people.
False! Almost all epidemiologic studies indicate people in the overweight or moderately obese categories live at least as long—or longer—than people in the normal weight category. The most comprehensive review of the research pooled data from 26 studies and found overweight to be associated with greater longevity than normal weight. Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys I, II, and III, which followed the largest nationally representative cohort of U.S. adults, also determined that the “ideal” weight for longevity was in the “overweight” category.

Assumption: Being “overweight” or “obese” puts people at significant health risk.
False! Epidemiological studies rarely acknowledge factors like fitness, activity, nutrient intake, weight cycling, or socioeconomic status when considering connections between weight and disease. Yet all play a role. When studies do control for these factors, increased risk of disease disappears or is significantly reduced. What’s likely
going on here is that these other factors increase disease risk at the same time they increase the risk of weight gain.

Assumption: Health is declining as a result of an “obesity epidemic.”

False! While it’s true that we’re moderately fatter than we used to be, life expectancy has increased dramatically during the same time period in which our weight rose (from 70.8 years in 1970 to 77.8 years in 2005). That’s right, government statistics predict that the average kid can now expect to live almost eight years longer than his
or her parents! Not only are we living longer than ever before, but we’re healthier than ever and chronic disease is appearing much later in life. Death rates attributed to heart disease have steadily declined throughout the entire spike in obesity. Both the World Health Organization and the Social Security Administration project life expectancy to continue to rise in coming decades. We are simply not seeing the catastrophic consequences predicted to result from the “obesity epidemic.”

Solution: More fat NPCs

Having more fat NPCs like Dulia-Chai promotes fat acceptance and normalization. Government studies show that having fat representation in media and the arts alleviate stress from people of big bodies and promote a healthy self-image and increase self-esteem. This leads to better health outcomes and better mental health outcomes.

Solution: Weight Slider

Studies show that people's happiness and self-esteem increase when character customization options in video games can accurately create characters that look like the player. Once again, this leads to better health and mental health outcomes. For people of big bodies, this comes in the form of a weight slider that allows players to create characters of all sizes.

You don't need a video game to tell you to eat that Big Mac.

[RagingStallion]

You don't need a video game to tell you to eat that Big Mac.

Fat-shaming is not OK