Besides, homosexuality is not a risk to your health.
Contrary to the governments of the world propeganda departments, neither is obesity. Correlation does not equal causation.
Think about this rationally, if things like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, et al were CAUSED by obesity, then ONLY people who are obese would get these things. Since there are a lot of skinny/normal people who get all of the above and more, then obviously, obesity doesn't cause it.
Obesity is also not necessarily a 'lifestyle choice'. In many of the above mentioned illnesses, obesity is actually a symptom of the disease. Did you know that for Insulin Resistance (a precourser to Type II Diabetes) obesity is one of the symptoms? How about hypothyroidism? How about how a lot of medicines (anti-depressants be most notorious) have a side effect of "increased weight" (to the tune of 50 lbs or more)? Some obese people eat less than some normal sized people do, and exersize as much or more, and still can't lose the weight.
Also on the lifestyle comment, do you really think anybody who is obese really wants to be obese? Do you really think, considering obese people are targeted for all sorts of bigotry and discrimination, that if there was a way to actually, honestly, lose weight and keep it off, they wouldn't take it? (Bariatric surgeries don't even have a good ratio here, only about 15% of the people who have some sort of bariatric surgery actually keep off the weight they lost.) Do you really honestly believe that every obese person in the world is just a fat slob, and therefor deserves everything they get (including doctors refusing to treat their real medical issues, and governments calling for such 'radical' measures as having doctors refuse to treat obese people -- which is already happening only not government mandated -- and other governments trying to enact laws that forbid people with a BMI of 25 or more from eating at ANY restaurant)? That's what it sounds like when you say, "Obesity is unacceptable."
Things that are being reported in the so-called studies aren't always true. A recent example of how studies get made up out of whole cloth can be found here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=4865889&page=1 This is the ONLY news source that told how the so-called study was even conducted, it was all statisticians who didn't even talk to one real, live person to see how much they ate in a day, for a control group or for the 'obese' group. Yet all other news sources had headlines of "Obesity the cause of global warming!" Um, no. Just no.
Oh, and since we're talking about obesity, which obesity are we talking about? Today's BMI indicators, or the ones from 1997, BEFORE the governments changed the BMI's to make people who before that weren't obese, obese overnight. Here is the CNN article about what would happen in 1998, before that change went into effect: http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9806/03/weight.measure/index.html .
There are lots of places you can go and at least find out the other side of the coin.
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Re: Forgive my harshness
Date: 2008-06-21 04:12 am (UTC)Contrary to the governments of the world propeganda departments, neither is obesity. Correlation does not equal causation.
Think about this rationally, if things like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, et al were CAUSED by obesity, then ONLY people who are obese would get these things. Since there are a lot of skinny/normal people who get all of the above and more, then obviously, obesity doesn't cause it.
Obesity is also not necessarily a 'lifestyle choice'. In many of the above mentioned illnesses, obesity is actually a symptom of the disease. Did you know that for Insulin Resistance (a precourser to Type II Diabetes) obesity is one of the symptoms? How about hypothyroidism? How about how a lot of medicines (anti-depressants be most notorious) have a side effect of "increased weight" (to the tune of 50 lbs or more)? Some obese people eat less than some normal sized people do, and exersize as much or more, and still can't lose the weight.
Also on the lifestyle comment, do you really think anybody who is obese really wants to be obese? Do you really think, considering obese people are targeted for all sorts of bigotry and discrimination, that if there was a way to actually, honestly, lose weight and keep it off, they wouldn't take it? (Bariatric surgeries don't even have a good ratio here, only about 15% of the people who have some sort of bariatric surgery actually keep off the weight they lost.) Do you really honestly believe that every obese person in the world is just a fat slob, and therefor deserves everything they get (including doctors refusing to treat their real medical issues, and governments calling for such 'radical' measures as having doctors refuse to treat obese people -- which is already happening only not government mandated -- and other governments trying to enact laws that forbid people with a BMI of 25 or more from eating at ANY restaurant)? That's what it sounds like when you say, "Obesity is unacceptable."
Things that are being reported in the so-called studies aren't always true. A recent example of how studies get made up out of whole cloth can be found here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=4865889&page=1 This is the ONLY news source that told how the so-called study was even conducted, it was all statisticians who didn't even talk to one real, live person to see how much they ate in a day, for a control group or for the 'obese' group. Yet all other news sources had headlines of "Obesity the cause of global warming!" Um, no. Just no.
Oh, and since we're talking about obesity, which obesity are we talking about? Today's BMI indicators, or the ones from 1997, BEFORE the governments changed the BMI's to make people who before that weren't obese, obese overnight. Here is the CNN article about what would happen in 1998, before that change went into effect: http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9806/03/weight.measure/index.html .
There are lots of places you can go and at least find out the other side of the coin.