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Good grief. Balance in all things. There is a whole U shaped curve of sizes. No one size fits all. We have someone at the gym who looks near death from anorexia and some who are 350+ pounds. Where are the "healthy" dividing lines? No one really knows. Best to deal with what you have and let others do the same.
"Hey, you're obese. After your heart surgery, you have a better chance of living!"
"Shouldn't I just be healthy and skip the heart surgery in the first place?"
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I mean, how stupid do you have to be to publish something like this?
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But other studies backed the findings up. Overweight and moderately obese people also had better outcomes with other chronic diseases like kidney failure, advanced cancer, and AIDS.
Compared to what? People underweight? Sure, having energy stores to help survive obviously help. In chronic and genetic disease that affect everyone, regardless of fitness levels, again having energy stores of fat will help. However, it is much healthier to be healthy and avoid a lot of those diseases in the first place!
This seriously is downright ridiculous. "If you're fat, major surgery for heart failure, heart blockage, kidney disease, liver disease will go much better for you!" Or you could avoid those things in the first place by eating healthy and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
"Hey, you're obese. After your heart surgery, you have a better chance of living!"
"Shouldn't I just be healthy and skip the heart surgery in the first place?"
This seriously is downright ridiculous. "If you're fat, major surgery for heart failure, heart blockage, kidney disease, liver disease will go much better for you!" Or you could avoid those things in the first place by eating healthy and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
My observations are obviously non-scientific but in 70 years, I've rarely seen an obese male over age 80. In fact, the oldest guy geezers I've seen were/are scrawny.
Of all the information to take away from this article, try this:
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He cites two studies, one out of Canada and one conducted by the American Cancer Society, which both say unequivocally that the more you sit no matter your age or weight, the sooner you’ll die.
We have become a nation of enablers with this type of nonsense. It is NOT healthier to be fat.
And I am tired of fat and lazy people who try to make their situation everyone else's problem. One of my co-workers is huge, lazy and definitely not healthy (based on the boatload of meds that she takes and the way she huffs and puffs walking a short distance from one part of the building to another.) When our team goes to lunch this woman who is well over 350 lbs NEVER orders anything that has a vegetable in it. If we want to take the stairs up one flight which are right by our offices she will insist upon going out of the way to take the elevator. And she even has the audacity to ask me to give her a ride to her car when she is parked right next to me (ir she wants me to walk to go get my car, pick her up and then drive her back to her car....umm no I refuse to be an enabler )
This type of lazy and self indulgent behavior is repeated over and over all over the country.
Nope. I don't click random links. An excerpt in the OP would be nice.
Well, if you did, you'd realize that your rant is irrelevant to the topic.
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