Fat Activist Tells Dr. Phil The Science That States She's Unhealthy Is Wrong Because Most Scientists Are White Men

“Dr. Phil” McGraw had an intense show on Wednesday debating whether there was a correlation between obesity and health problems. Dr. Phil spoke with a guest and multiple experts about a crisis facing the nation in an episode titled, “Has the Body Positivity Movement Gone Too Far?”

Dr. Phil asked his “body positivity” activist guest, “Would you agree that being obese or being morbidly obese puts you at risk for diseases at a higher level than if you were at a lesser weight and everything else was constant?”

Lexi the activist replied, “I would disagree with you from my personal experience, and from what I know working in the body positivity movement for the past few years, and hearing other people’s accounts.” Dr. Phil responded with a litany of damning statistics.

“So you would reject the science?” Dr. Phil asked. “The current science says that you are seven times higher risk for diabetes, certain kinds of cancer, sleep apnea, six times higher for high blood pressure, four times higher for arthritis, three times higher for asthma, that you’re higher risk for high cholesterol, inflammation, coronary artery disease. And if you have high blood pressure, you’re 200 to 300 percent more at risk for a stroke.”

Lexi claimed, “I have none of those issues. I have no indicators of those issues being anywhere on the horizon. I am perfectly healthy. Even if I weren’t, I’m obviously still entitled to dignity and respect, which is my main pillar of belief and what I talk about most often.” She then pivoted to target the race and gender of the scientists who have done the research.

“Despite what you believe the science to reflect, you are very obviously rejecting the truth, which is that there is the science that opposes that belief. There are so many scientists and so many doctors who are middle-aged white men.