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In reply to the discussion: Telling people being obese isn't unhealthy--not productive [View all]Confusious
(8,317 posts)12. And fast food kills people every year
Would you like to address that?
You're just avoiding arguments you don't like.
We all have our particular burden to bear in this life, mine is cholesterol. I don't go to fast food joints because I would like to avoid open heart surgery later in life(which my grandfather and uncle had, my father avoided, barely). If you got weight problems, don't go, it makes you fat. And being fat gives you all sorts of health problems later in life.
Thousands of studies have shown that, and you find one that agrees with you (and has flaws!) and it's the second fucking coming.
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How do you feel about the recent study that says overweight people live longer? nt
ZombieHorde
Jan 2013
#2
Sorry, This is about your "weight loss industry" bullshit argument, nothing else. nt
Confusious
Jan 2013
#9
Odd, but you are the one who simply blathers nonsense about obesity without references
eridani
Jan 2013
#81
Far less likely means that at a plump age 66, I have the bone density of a healthy 26 year old
eridani
Jan 2013
#85
First, you're confusing two studies. Your first link is about an earlier study that came to similar
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#21
yes, there's a lot of criticism -- about the same amount that the earlier height/weight tables got.
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#31
because bmi *isn't* "crap". If you are doing a study about weight, BMI is what you use. It's
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#37
Being overweight does not cause diabetes. Genetic insulin resistance causes overweight
eridani
Jan 2013
#69
Thin people mostly have Type I diabetes--being thin is one of its side effects.
eridani
Jan 2013
#80
And you got the link demonstrating that a single protein determines whether you get Type II or not
eridani
Jan 2013
#86
I maintained 5'-11" 150lbs for about 25 years, drank about 6 Dr. Pepper's per day.
tridim
Jan 2013
#64
"this study" is a meta-analysis of nearly 100 studies with over a million subjects. And it was
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#15
the science says otherwise; that moderately obese people do, in fact, have a decreased
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#22
BMI 18.5 is 'normal weight' & has the same risk in your chart as bmi 33, 'moderately obese'.
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#25
Anything under 20 is underweight and is also unhealthy. Few people argue that 18 is a good BMI.
reformist2
Jan 2013
#28
That study was referring to people just a few lbs overweight. Not obese (30% over ideal wt).
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#84
I have a friend who lost about 100 lbs, going from weighing 385 to weighing 285
eridani
Jan 2013
#19