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Fat people harm their own children by passing on their lifestyle.

In countries with a national health system where taypayer's money goes towards treating the effects of living an unhealthy lifestyle and becoming fat or obese, there are bound to be people who have the inclination and the right to complain about how much of their tax dollars goes towards these people with self-inflicted pathologies. It is in every governments interest to keep costs down by reducing healthcare spending on preventable issues such as obesity, some people are just more vocal about it than others. No man is an island remember.

To be fair, you can have fatty muscle and lean muscle. Bodybuilders who do no cardio and only resistance exercise develop cardiomyopathy which thickens the wall of the ventricles and makes them less elastic in exactly the same way that a smokers heart would develop heart issues. Olympic weightlifters are actually dangerously unhealthy in certain ways, such as high blood pressure, kidney damage, heart enlargement etc. Muscle does not equal health unfortunately, but there is usually a strong correlation between people who exercise and people who are healthy, however this correlation is not perfect.

Natural selection obviously failed with superchicken.

I'm sorry. I apologise. It hit a nerve. Forgive me.

Since health parameters decrease even before fat levels become visible, you can guarantee that anyone who is fat enough that it can be seen will already be unhealthy in some way (e.g. insulin resistant, increased LDL levels, heart arrythmias), and therefore there is no line between vanity and health (until you reach a certain body fat percentage (roughly 8% for men and say 18% for women)). Exercise will benefit everybody who does it, full stop. I'm slightly worried that some women think that they shouldn't exercise just because their other half wants them too, that's childish. As a happy coincidence you will also start to look better if you exercise regularly