Deborah Harrell wrote:
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/70/80978.htm?printing=true
"...If you simply take some healthful steps in the direction of your weight-loss goals, you are likely to reap some healthy rewards, even if you never drop a single pound. As remarkable as that sounds, in studies published in March 2003 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, CDC researchers found that those folks who simply tried to lose weight lived longer..." [with healthy lifestyle changes, not starvation diets or stimulants]
<steps onto a soapbox>
So I'm gonne die earlier because I've never in my life attempted to lose weight? Sure sounds a bit strange to me. I'm obese but have had approximately the same weight for over 20 years now. (give or take the odd kilo). And I never tried to loose any. Because quite frankly I couldn't care less what others think about my looks. They can look away if they are that displeased. I'm not gonne be told that I should lose weight or even attempt it and then start yo-yoing all over the place as a result. With the added bonus that I then for the rest of my life have to consider the consequences for every morsel of food I wanne eat. No thanks very much! I rather stay healthy.
I walk and bike a lot. That and the house work with all the jobs attached to it that usually are physically very demanding are all the exercise I need. (I don't know how often I have to climb the bloody stairs but I know it is lots).
And on a slightly related note.
You know what really makes me furious. When I have an ailment (no matter what it is) and I go see another doctor then my own about it, the first thing I usually get told is that I have the ailment because of my weight. Even if it isn't in the slightest connected, that is still the first thing I invariably will be told. And that isn't only for me but also for a lot of other people I know. I call them lazy doctor's diagnosis. When I then ask that doctor full serious to please in detail explain (if possible with references to resent research) the underlying mechanism that connects my ailment to being overweight I usually get silence and a very confused doctor. After that I get either treated like the average patient with that ailment or I walk out and find another doctor.
Being overweight isn't the all evil, and as a result weight loss cann't be the all cure. Even healthy slim, trim and young people do get heart attacks, brain haemorrhages or die of cancer.
So the first quack that ever again starts telling me that loosing weight is gonne cure whatever it is that's amiss just because that person is too lazy to find out what *really* is wrong with me, will get the full brunt of my fury about all the lazy doctors diagnosis' (pl?) I've ever had. And that's a promise.
<lazy doctor mode>
Oh, you're just a hysterical woman. Here's a prescription for Prozac. Now go away.
</lazy doctor mode>
If It's Not Your Weight It's All In Your Head Maru
-- Ronn! :)
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