Why the hate on anime ?

I saw the image and I was about to make a comment about the langoliers. Lovely story ^^

That is a myth - for many people, trying to lose weight is counter productive to living a healthy life.

Sometimes sick people are/get fat and sometimes being fat can strain the body. But trying to make your body thinner than it wants to be is also associated with strain on the body.

I am not trying to say, that fatness and health are totally unrelated, but the correlation is not as important as our culture makes it out to be.

This article explains it quite nicely.

https://www.science.org/content/article/obesity-doesn-t-always-mean-ill-health-here-s-what-scientists-are-learning

You can be fat without eating too much and it is okay to be fat.

For some people being fat is like being red-haired, just genetics and for others it might be caused by illness. In all cases, fat people still deserve respect.

I say this because stupid myths about and prejudice against fat people cause a lot of harm and even death.