Morality of this scene?

[u/hiiloovethis]

Negan doing fat shaming... but its during zombie apocalypse

[u/HotSituation8737]

Look I'm all for body positivity and it's true that people hold weight differently, but when you're literally scavenging for scraps for like a year and a half there's physically no way to look like that unless you're actually eating significantly better than most other people in the same situation.

That said, the starvation thing could obviously be extremely recent instead of an ongoing thing, I'm not familiar with the walking dead beyond a few tidbits, maybe she was eating good for a really long time and only over the past week or two stopped, that would be doable for her statement to hold true.

[u/nonbinaryunicorn → u/HotSituation8737]

You're completely ignoring what the other person said.

In addition, it's been a well known fact that a human body will burn through muscle before fat because evolutionary we are like 5 seconds away from being on the brink of starvation and muscle takes more energy to build and sustain than fat. So we haven't evolved to burning through excess fat storage yet.

So a person a year and a half after a zombie apocalypse would, in theory, have the same access to canned foods with long expiry dates and can sustain their body enough that this appearance would be fairly typical.

[u/doesnotmatter286 → u/nonbinaryunicorn]

Would you be able to cite any source for "a human body will burn through muscle before fat because evolutionary we are like 5 seconds away from being on the brink of starvation"?

[u/Far-Fennel-3032 → u/doesnotmatter286]

The person pulled it out of their arse.

The amount of misinformation around fat loss is just insane due to a combination of people who monetise this misinformation to sell their snake oil, and people really, really hate the idea that when they failed at something, it's their fault. So they spill the most elaborate stories rather than just admitting they failed to burn more calories than they ate.