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- From: faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.big-folks
- Subject: Re: Advantages of being fat
- Message-ID: <FAIGIN.92Jul28152405@soldan.aero.org>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:24:05 GMT
- References: <0wcm27+.artemis@netcom.com> <1992Jul20.192047.10918@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- In-Reply-To: peterk@public.sub.org's message of Wed, 22 Jul 92 11: 58:03 GMT
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- stcroix@z.eecs.umich.edu (William C. St.Croix) writes:
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- > Why is it that *MOST* health care professionals assume that people
- > who are "Overweight" have high blood pressure, high cholesterol
- > rapid pulse, etc. I have just come from a blood drive at a local
- > company. The nurse that took my blood pressure was astonished that
- > my BP was 130/80 and my pulse was 86. She said "Oh...but, someone of
- > your size should have a much higher BP.
-
- My wife writes:
-
- You think *you* have fun -- my normal BP is 110/70 (maybe) with a resting
- pulse of ~65. When under stress, my BP goes DOWN like a rock! I can *still*
- get dizzy and fall down if I get up too fast -- I did, one day at work -- you
- should've seen the panic on the nurse's face when she took my BP and it was
- 85/40! -- Yeah, I was still walking and talking, but I was kinda-lightheaded.
- :-) She wouldn't let me leave her office 'til after she'd talked to my
- friendly MD and poured some salt and liquid down me (I was about 220# at 5'$'
- at the time!).
-
- Karen
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- "You can't be a rationalist in an irrational world. It isn't rational!"
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