Are many of our health care woes related to poor nutrition?
Posted 10-13-2013 at 12:04 PM by Pinkmani
Yes, obesity and smoking are a HUGE problem. My mom (a nurse) will scream it to the mountain tops. She often has to call security to help her move an obese patient. She's not going to throw her back out for someone. That would mean she would have to miss work and sick-leave doesn't cover the bills. You have people who can't even wipe their own butt! According to her, obesity, smoking, and motorcycles are the most common reasons why someone is in her care.
I remember a story about a car accident that happened during rush hour. They sent the helicopter to airlift the victim to the hospital (quicker than trying to go through traffic). The helicopter can't take people over 250 lbs. (keep in mind of the EMTs and equipment that are already on it). The victim had to go via ambulance because he or she was too fat.
Instead of giving pay raises to hospital workers, hospitals have to buy bigger MRI machines, X-ray machines, gurneys, and wheelchairs. If the hospital doesn't have the larger machines, they have to send people to the zoo. People die in surgery because of obesity-induced sleep apnea. They stop breathing and they can't intubate, so they have to cut a whole in their neck so that they can put the tube down their airway.
The government doesn't give a rat's ass about us. If they did, then they wouldn't allow companies to make fake food with all these preservatives.
I remember a story about a car accident that happened during rush hour. They sent the helicopter to airlift the victim to the hospital (quicker than trying to go through traffic). The helicopter can't take people over 250 lbs. (keep in mind of the EMTs and equipment that are already on it). The victim had to go via ambulance because he or she was too fat.
Instead of giving pay raises to hospital workers, hospitals have to buy bigger MRI machines, X-ray machines, gurneys, and wheelchairs. If the hospital doesn't have the larger machines, they have to send people to the zoo. People die in surgery because of obesity-induced sleep apnea. They stop breathing and they can't intubate, so they have to cut a whole in their neck so that they can put the tube down their airway.
The government doesn't give a rat's ass about us. If they did, then they wouldn't allow companies to make fake food with all these preservatives.
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Nail on the head
That is a very inconvenient truth but it is truth. At our store we sell a one ounce bottle of liquid iodine, which has 600 drops per bottle. That is enough for a husband and wife for a whole year yet it's a hard sell.
People go to a doctor and he says; you need to lose weight, dah. Don't they have a mirrow? Yes motorcycles are dangerous but people are careless and hurt themselves in dozens of ways keeping the emergency rooms covered up.Posted 10-13-2013 at 06:23 PM by Fortoggie
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It's not just obesity and smoking, it's a host of many other things. The foods that are available on the market in the US of A are considerably unhealthy, we ride everywhere, no longer take the stairs, or to get up to change the TV channel, (I purchased a car radio with a remote, how lazy is that?), we park close to the store, shop online, kids no longer play outside due to video games, they ride the bus to and from school, the list goes on and on.
A big part of it is due to economics. Nowadays, (and for many, many years) in a two parent home, both parents have to work just to survive leaving the children at risk for poor nutritional choices secondary to the lack of supervision, and or, bad choices made by the parents who don't have the time or energy to prepare good meals. This is where the bad habits begin, and it goes on life long. I know many parents that don't cook, instead they pick up on the way home from work or send the family to purchase fast foods, and cooking in the home happens every Blue Moon. These children eventually become parents and the trend continues.
When I was a child, the foods that we eat were prepared from scratch. We had treats but only once in a while, and that made it sort of special. Fast food restaurants were far and few between and even so, we didn't have the money to use them anyway. Today treats have hands down, taken the place of the healthy foods because it is convenient for an on the go lifestyle. Fast food joints are everywhere from burgers to Oriental foods and everything in between. Although there have been significant advances in water purification, other liquids that are available to drink have harmful chemicals, our air is polluted, and we now have pharmaceuticals that are later found to cause harm not just to the taker but to their offspring as well.
In its inception and over the years, modern technology has extended human life expectancy considerably from 30 to now greater than 75 years. Even on the battle field where soldier, airmen, marines, and sailors SAMS would die from battle wounds, they now survive. Despite all the modern developments over the years, if you look closely, you will see a trend where that very technology has begun to decrease it again.Posted 10-17-2013 at 12:14 AM by night hawk
