Those nations, Mr Harrison said, are being classified as “obese countries based solely off of the World Health Organisation and the world obesity federation classifying these spaces as obese because of BMI”.
He added: “There’s no consideration for the ways that apartheid or genocide or whatever else might be directly affecting or impacting how people are engaging with food or with size”.
Ms Gay, who chaired the meeting, said weight loss jabs had been presented as “the silver bullet that’s going to fix the problem that is fatness, which is of course predicated on the notion that fatness is a problem”.
Ms Chastain, a “multi-certified health and fitness professional”, holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest female to complete a marathon.
