A follow-up to this.
From Robert Sapolsky's amazing and (potentially) life-changing book Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will:
Encouraging studies show that the average levels of implicit, unconscious bias against people as a function of their race, age, or sexual orientation have all decreased significantly over the last decade. But not implicit biases against obese individuals. They’ve gotten worse. ...Even your average obese individual shows implicit antiobesity biases, unconsciously associating obesity with laziness...
Of course, there is the argument that we should spend our limited time and resources "fighting" these biases. But I would contend that there are other injustices in the world that urgently deserve our finite attention.
If we can do something to change our caloric intake and improve both our healthspan and our societal standing, we should. (And, of course, improving others' opinion of us increases our ability to help those most in need of our help.)
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