Time Magazine stigmatizes exercise as a white supremacist

Magazines and major publications used challenge readers to make resolutions for the coming year. Now they’re trying to redefine fitness altogether, claiming that conventional health and beauty standards are outdated fixtures of white supremacy.

Time Magazine published its last week-end edition just days before an overweight nation welcomed in the new year. published A transcription of an interview “The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise.”

“How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons?” Time is the ultimate writer. “That evolution is explored in a new book by a historian of exercise, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, out Jan. 2023.”

In the following interview, Petrzela described health and wellness as a tool of white nationalism. Petrzela explains that early fitness fans of the 20th-century encouraged exercise for the purpose of growing the white population.

They said we should get rid of corsets, corsets are an assault on women’s form, and that women should be lifting weights and gaining strength. This seems so progressive at first.

Then you keep reading, and they’re saying white women should start building up their strength because we need more white babies. They’re writing during an incredible amount of immigration, soon after enslaved people have been emancipated. This is a part of white supremacy. That was a real! ‘holy crap’ moment as historian, where deep archive research really reveals these contradictions.

Petrzela continued to support the pro-fat movement, admonishing common-sense beliefs about overweight people in fitness areas.

“Today, you see quite a few fat people in the fitness industry, who are operating from a better perspective, which is that your body size does not necessarily dictate your fitness level,” Petrzela said. “We should not presume that because you are fat, that you are not fit or that you want to lose weight.”

These assumptions are not true. What pro-fat influencers miss In their efforts to redefine the meaning of “being” “fit” It is true that obese people are not considered obese. may live just as long as those without excess weight — though obesity and the comorbidities that often accompany it can affect longevity — they may not live Also.

Obesity is associated with higher risks of stroke, heart disease, diabetes and cancers. few — not to mention the present burden of extra weight putting stress on joints and other parts of the body.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) estimates that nearly 80% of Americans have a chronic disease. 67 percent A minimum of 10% of Americans are overweight. The American adult population is considered healthy if it is a minority.

Time Magazine isn’t the only one to call exercise a product political extremism. FiveThirtyEight in 2021 declared the right’s focus on obesity as an ill-faith fixation of “right-wing communities,”