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April 24, 2006, 11:11 pm PDT
04/27 Big Burden
Quote From: ruth923One thing I am taking you to task on is that there are people pre-disposed in being obese I am one of them I only eat what is good and healthy foods in moderation, I have had Doctors tell me not to worry because none of my mother's side of the house weighted under 250 and all were healthy up until they hit their mid 70's and they never had over eating issues. In medical dictionaries the definitions of morbid obesity is as follows: Morbid Obesity that is sufficient to prevent normal activity or physiologic function, or to cause the onset of a pathologic condition. The condition of weighing two, three, or more times the ideal weight, so called because it is associated with many serious and life-threatening disorders. The term for simple obesity is this: Simple obesity obesity resulting when caloric intake exceeds energy expenditure. So I guess what I want to say is that even someone that is 60 lbs you can be considered morbidly obese. I understand the definitions but I'm sorry...fat doesn't appear out of no where. Fat is a physical material and it doesn't leap onto the human body as a person sleeps or something.
We literally are what we eat. Every cell in our bodies are made up of something we consumed at one point or another A person doesn't weigh 300+ lbs by eating 1400 calories worth of salad and grilled chicken breast.
I believe that a person can be pre-disposed to being obese...yes, but that doesn't equal doomed to being obese. That fat came from SOMEWHERE.
"Morbid Obesity that is sufficient to prevent normal activity or physiologic function, or to cause the onset of a pathologic condition. The condition of weighing two, three, or more times the ideal weight, so called because it is associated with many serious and life-threatening disorders."
I do not disagree with that definition. That definition has nothing to do with how a person became morbidly obese, only that they will suffer for becoming obese.
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