I read this post on Dads and Daughters With Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders – Weights & Scales
To summarize:
Because her health is directly related to her weight.  Measured by scales.
Her recovery is directly related to her weight.  Measured by scales.
Her life is directly related to her weight.  Measured by scales.
Weight matters.
And scales matter because they measure weight.
I posted a comment on this post, which hasn’t been approved yet, but I decided that I wanted to discuss the issue on Grey Thinking anyway.
Yes, weight is inexorably tied to health and to recovery.  …

The growing obesity epidemic is nothing new, and I’ve written about government-imposed food restrictions in elementary schools before, but I’m pretty disappointed that the government would charge non-dieting, overweight Americans: State’s Obesity Risk: Lose Weight or Lose Insurance
To summarize this article in a couple of lines:
Alabama is giving its employees roughly a year to start getting in shape or state employees will be charged $25 a month for insurance that would otherwise be free.
Some states offer benefits for healthy living, but Alabama is the first state to punish those not …