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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-18-10 11:59 PM
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I have a question on etiquette realted to a friend's health
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My buddy, Jon, is a big guy. He weighs about 325. He hasn't always been large, when he was in his 20s he was much smaller. He's now 38-years-old.

Since moving here, he has gotten heavier. But the thing is it's the way he's eating. Whenever I go to his apartment there's pizza boxes and McDonald's bags and all that stuff (Worse yet cause McDonald's delivers in China). Now, I think some of it may be he's not used to the food yet and so he's buying western food for comfort but I don't know.

Anyway, I'm very worried about his health, and to see him eating like this makes me even more worried. But is it over the line to approach him seriously and say, "Look, you have got to stop eating like this, you're going to have a heart attack or something."

I don't want to hurt his feelings, and I'm sure HE knows he needs to stop too, but he just doesn't. Yesterday he had two big mac meals for lunch.
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  -I have a question on etiquette realted to a friend's health HEyHEY  Sep-18-10 11:59 PM   #0 
  - It might be a nice idea to try to intervene,  elleng   Sep-19-10 12:06 AM   #1 
  - my mother eats like that...and my father is an alcoholic  MrsBrady   Sep-19-10 12:28 AM   #2 
  - MYOFB  Lil Missy   Sep-19-10 12:28 AM   #3 
  - I don't agree with that, personally. If you care about someone you should help them  HEyHEY   Sep-19-10 12:32 AM   #5 
     - Sounds like a good idea.  elleng   Sep-19-10 12:52 AM   #7 
  - i think it is over the line. something amazing. people think that other people dont KNOW what  seabeyond   Sep-19-10 12:32 AM   #4 
  - Yeah, maybe I'll wait until he brings it up again  HEyHEY   Sep-19-10 12:37 AM   #6 
     - you might address it just like that.  seabeyond   Sep-19-10 01:02 AM   #8 
  - As a large man  quakerboy   Sep-19-10 01:49 AM   #9 
  - I agree with quakerboy  Skittles   Sep-19-10 02:38 AM   #10 
  - Get him to see a doctor. Take him out for some healthy chinese meals. Don't know  applegrove   Sep-19-10 03:57 PM   #11 
  - True friends have a duty to cross the line every so often.  Kaleva   Sep-19-10 04:15 PM   #12 
  - Maybe frame it in the "dude, you can finally eat real Chinese food!"  Book Lover   Sep-19-10 04:31 PM   #13 
 

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