Careful there, troublemaker…
“Obesity paradox,” the term, was coined in 2002 by Dr. Luis Gruberg and colleagues at the Cardiovascular Research Institute in Washington D.C., when they discovered — to their surprise — that overweight and obese patients had roughly half the risk of mortality than normal-weight patients following angioplasty, a procedure to unblock arteries in the heart.
Lavie noticed a similar trend in his patients recovering from heart failure. He published his findings in 2003, where he revealed that for every 1 percent increase in body fat there was a 13 percent increase in overall survival.
There may be risks you haven’t considered.
h/t Alyric
I am firmly convinced that if we wait long enough, there will be a study which says that being an obese, drug addicted, chain smoking alcoholic will be the optimum life style.
If I recall a fella, Woody Allen, did a movie called “sleeper”…..”Oh yes. In that era people had the notion that smoking was bad for you.”
A different twist on Rip Van Winkle…perhaps…
Not to regulate that you are entitled to speak, but referring the individual mentioned is really perpetuating the mystique the Celebrity media used to set aside some egregious life styles decisions on his part. Cheers;
My grandfather lived to be 96. Smoked, drank scotch, took snuff, ate bacon, worked in a steel plant AND got blown up in WWI.
Almost everything we read in the news about health is BS. Just remember that and you’ll do all right.
““One study shows that home cooking is actually a better predictor of how well families eat than their income,” she told the audience. “And that’s not surprising, because food prepared at home is lower in saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol and calories than food prepared away from home.”
Good grief. Plainly she has no clue. Who is feeding her these lines. She ought to do some home thinking.
I know lots of people in excellent shape with not an ounce of spare body fat with arteries plugged with goo. I think it is all about genetics and little about anything else. A lot of my relatives keel over relatively young from clogged arteries and the rest are on medication.
This is an interesting phenomenon. It has to do with the shape of the cardiac vessels. If they run relatively straight, there’s no gunk build up. If they have tight bends, they clog. Its because of the ox-bow effect, same as in a river. Blood moves faster on the outside of the curve, slow on the inside. Fat collects on the inside of the bend and keeps on building up until the thing clogs altogether, and the guy has a a heart attack.
When physically fit people in their 30s and 40s have heart attacks suddenly, this is one of the reasons why.
On the other hand, there’s this:
http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140406/yale-student-92-lbs-stuffed-her-face-with-cheetos-ice-cream-to-pacify-school-officials
So, apparently we now live in a Procrustean world, where you’re not allowed to be too fat, too thin, (or too clever, or too questioning, or too threatening to the powers-that-be, etc.)
One thing that I know for sure is that fat women live longer then the men who comment on their weight.
Which also happens to weed out the stupid men from the gene pool. LOL!!
Paging Aaron Clarey…Aaron Clarey to the thread…
People have a right to cram whatever they want in their pie hole, and exercise or not, and die from what they do to themselves. It’s not really anyone else’s decision or business for that matter, is it?
Daniel…LOL at “paging Aaron Clarey”…:)
northof60: your use of ‘piehole’ for mouth kinda ‘outs’ you, don’t you think? 🙂
whatever are you going on about?
I have a right to refuse any business or have any dealings with gays, obese people, muslims, druggies, homeless, as well as lieberals, liars, cheats and thieves.
What people choose to do is up to them, I’m not compelled to have anything to do with it.
Just kidding…’Piehole’ was too rich to pass up.
All the folks I know from the Maritimes call it ‘a pie hole’, especially when it’s on the face of an obese person.