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- From: atchampion@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.support.big-folks
- Subject: Re: Health
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.131221.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:05:21 GMT
- References: <98383@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov19.221616.24113@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.221616.24113@inmet.camb.inmet.com>, mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
- > In article <98383@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >>Just went to the doctor today ... I'm a shade over 200 pounds, and my
- >>blood pressure is 117 over 70. 8-) Take THAT, medical industry!
- >
- > I don't mean to be unsupportive, really I don't, but does anyone besides
- > me see a flaw in the logic of statements like this? My sister is grossly
- > obese (300+) and I was close to that. Both of us have cholesterol levels
- > and blood pressures that you normally expect in healthy people. But...we
- > are both relatively young (20s-30s).
- >
- > I'm not sure which is more correct--that one can be fat and healthy, or
- > that the health risks of obesity accumulate over a lifetime. I mean, to me
- > this sounds a bit like a teenager who said "hey look, a pack of cigs a day
- > and my lungs are still clear!"
- >
- > I don't advocate that everyone struggle their whole life to be thinner
- > than they can be. But I'm not sure it's safe to assume that one's health
- > isn't compromised by obesity because we're healthy at a relatively young age.
- >
- > Just something to think about (and flame me to a crisp-fried, crackly-crunch
- > I suppose).
- >
- > Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- > mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
- > ...!uunet!inmet!mazur -- The Indigo Girls
-
- As far as health and obesity are concerned, no one has ever PROVEN that
- obesity is fatally harmful to one's health and that they will die early.
- For that matter, what is "dying early"? Most of the information on health
- and obesity is obtained through statistical studies. As a mathematician,
- I've seen that statistics are one of the most abused tools in science today
- and it really makes me sick.
- A man dies from a heart attack and it so happens that he was overweight.
- Well did he die because he was overweight? How do we know that he didn't
- already have some other disease, or that he died of natural causes, or that
- he got hit by a truck which so happened to cause the heart attack? These are
- things many statistical studies don't show us.
-
- This is not a flame, just bitching.
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- Wanna read a good book? "Fat is Not a Four-Letter Word" by Charles Roy
- Schroeder. It's great stuff.
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- "Yes, but there's soooo much more of them to love."
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