Posted on 04/19/2021 2:56:28 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s health protection agency, has declared that obesity significantly worsens Covid-19 outcomes. According to its website, obesity reduces immune function, decreases lung capacity, may make ventilation more difficult, and generally exacerbates the severity of Covid. During the first eight months of the pandemic, the CDC reports, at least three in ten Covid hospitalizations were attributed to obesity. As BMI rises, so do Covid-related risks of hospitalization, intensive care admission, mechanical ventilation, and death.
These are grim facts, particularly so as the CDC also reports that obesity is on the rise, especially amongst America’s poorest, and has been made worse by lockdowns. The highest prevalence of self-reported obesity is among “non-Hispanic black adults,” at a whopping 39.8 percent percent. Nearly four out of ten black Americans are not just overweight, but obese....
Yet as Michael Fumento recently pointed out in “Obesity: Covid’s Third Rail,” the average person would hardly know of the link between Covid severity and obesity from mainstream reporting, which has largely either remained completely silent about the connection or even denounced those who point it out. “It seems we’ve seen a backlash to linking Covid-19 to obesity without ever seeing the lash,” he notes wryly....
Thanks in large part to a social justice interdiction against what has come to be called “fat shaming,” it is now unacceptable to address the health effects of obesity. Some health officials even claim that so-called “fat shaming” is worse than being fat. A 2018 article in the peer-reviewed medical journal BMC Medicine targeted weight “stigma” as the main driver of the current obesity epidemic, finding “compelling evidence that weight stigma is harmful to health over and above objective body mass index.” The article’s authors were particularly concerned about anti-fat bias amongst health practitioners....
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Excellent point well taken. Back to reality.. a real honest look at a real problem.
How many pounds were added to people due to forced shelter in place mandates and closures of health fitness establishments?
please correct me if i’m wrong...
isn’t gluttony one of the deadliest sins???...
Sugar, sugar, sugar in processed foods.
Yes, I do believe it is. However, I have yet to hear a sermon preached against it.
I would be curious to know the average weight gained by people who were gym goers and whose gym was closed and those who were never gym goers.
My guess would be that most gym goers did not gain that much weight and found some other kind of physical activity to do.
I think closing gyms sent a bad message to those who already find it easy not to be active.
I drove past a large municipal park one Saturday recently. It was a gorgeous day. The park was not in a bad area and had a walking track and several basketball courts, tennis courts, soccer fields, baseball fields, etc.
I did not see a soul in the park.
maybe you’re hearing it now...
Fat lives matter only if they are in congress and their belt is just under the chin.
Hmmm, I could start Fat lives matter, and maybe be get a nice couple of homes while still spending more than BLM.
“Sugar, sugar”
The Archies.
I wonder if Chris Christie would be our spokesman and maybe Michael Moore, to get the left side on board.
We could pressure corporations for donations and examine what percent of their boards and executives are obese relative to the population.
We could demand fat sensitivity training, fat history month, fat scholarships and fat affirmative action.
But, but, but it tastes so good !
We could tax carbohydrates and sell carbohydrate credits.
As a teenager once of my cousin’s friends had driven us to a sonic.
We had been noticing how cute the carhop was. We were eating our meal when someone asked the driver to request some sugar.
She came on the speaker and he said, “Can I have some sug sug sug sug sug sugar. We died laughing.
You forgot to add in demands for extra breaks for snacks and that vending machines be stocked with extra high calorie items. Also, extra wide chairs need to be placed in breakrooms and in cubicles. While we are at it, workplaces should have motorized carts available. Oh, employees should be given special allowances to buy work clothes if their size is above 2X.
One of my 80 year old siblings, who weighs a plus or minus 3 pounds of her same body weight at marriage 50+ years ago, has a quick diagnosis of how much weight we have gained.
Take your sweats off and put on a T shirt and try to put on a pair of jeans you wore before the pandemic. Only about 15 % of people like us still fit into their year old jeans or slacks after 1 year post CV19.
Then, the next time you shower, step on the scales before or after showering and then see how much weight you have gained.
Most of us have gained a minimum of 1# per month of weight during the pandemic to 2-3 pounds/month.
The ones in real potential trouble are those who gained more than 4-5 per month during the pandemic.
She said that former gym rats, due to gym closures and/or restrictions may be the biggest weight gainers.
Nope.
Not even mentioned in scripture.
All I know is Jesus loved to eat. Whenever he visited a home with a woman in it, he demanded a meal.
In one place, he got Peter’s mom out of a sick bed to cook for him!
Cut Him some slack. He did heal her first. :)
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