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Arcane Azmadi:
Fat people are unhealthy and should NOT be just accepting it.
Blanket statement much. Not all fat people are unhealthy, let's get this idea out of our heads okay.
Fat constricts organs and blood vessels, leading to hypertensension and a severely increased risk of strokes. Elevated LDL--blood cholesterol, associated with obesity--puts you at increased risk for plaque buildup in arteries, which can lead to heartattacks or bloodclots, which can, again, cause strokes.
Being overweight severely increases your risk of developing diabetes, which, untreated can cause gangrene that leads to losing a foot or leg, or blindness, or diabetic coma and death. Oh, it also tends to fuck with your immune system, putting you at risk for infections.
So yeah, how exactly is it possible for fat people to be healthy?
TOP 10 OBESITY MYTHS
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/12/top-10-obesity-myths/
Your answers are in that link.
EDIT: Mainly in myth 5.
EDIT 2: My personal trainer will also agree that not all fat people are unhealthy.
Studies do show that the relative risk of death among obese people with a Body Mass Index (BMI) at the highest end of the scale is significantly higher than normal weight people.[/q]
Hm yes, the ones dying younger must be more healthy than those of normal weight...
and I note that it mentions nothing about how it's even POSSIBLE to be both fit and fat--fitness implies that you don't get winded walking up the stairs, which fat people often do if their obesity is owing not enough excercise. Also my point about BP, stroke/heart/attack/diabetes risk. Yes, being too thin is dangerous; duh, obviously. But so is being fat.
Is it really that hard to understand that not all fat people are unhealthy? Do I need to go get it written down and signed by my personal trainer who actually knows about these things and is the informed source that actually tells me most of these important facts? NOT ALL fat people are unhealthy, you can be fit and fat which as stated in that link health is more to do with fitness NOT FAT!! I've never mentioned anything about death rates either, I'm not debating those and never have, I am trying to explain that fat people can be healthy at the same time. You asked me how it's possible and I gave you the answer (Myth 5).
I understand where you are coming from, I have an obese mother (thyroid) and an obese sister (Cushing Disease). My mum has given up on diets and exercise because it's just too damn easy for her thyroid to just give it all back and my sister became obese due to excess Cortasol in her body (she was a stick figure). I'm what a doctor would consider overweight yet recent blood results prove that I am healthy and that's considering the amount of shit I use to eat at the time. My immune system is awesome too, rarely sick and this was even before I began to exercise again.
So please, don't get smart arse and sarcastic with me, I understand more than you bloody know.
When you're overweight, your heart is physically struggling to beat owing to all the fat deposits on its surface. I've watched a surgery; it's gross all the slimy yellow patches where it should be slick and red and healthy-looking. Fat deposits on and in the heart can result in strokes or heart attacks. Not to mention the veins stand out like snakes with the seriously-elevated BP. (High BP, besides being risk factor for stroke, can also damage the optic nerve and cause blindness.) The obese are also often subject to sleep apnea, wherein the fat folds on one's throat press down on the larynx and impede breathing. This can cause snoring, snorting or gasping, and can sometimes result in many minute wakings all throughout the night, depriving the individual of a good deep REM sleep which means they are tired all the time. This can honestly be a vicious cycle, as the tired body's metabolism is slow, which worsens one's obesity, which causes worse apnea, which causes.....
So yeah, just because you somehow manage to be fat and have low cholesterol--how that works I have no idea--doesn't mean you're healthy.