Obesity a driving factor in COVID-19 deaths

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Originally Posted by Jakezilla

You know why most people are fat? They take in more calories than they burn. It's not any more complicated than that.

Yes there are things like thyroid issues or any other medical reason you can dig up but those people are in the minority.

People use all kinds of different excuses to justify their weight instead of accepting personal responsibility for their situation. Again, I agree, there are people in special circumstances but they are in the minority. Excuses and passing blame are easy, this is the route most people take with regards to their weight and other things in their lives.

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I used to think that way " They take in more calories than they burn. It's not any more complicated than that. "

But it is more complicated that that, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082693/

There are probably people you know who eat as much as you do but can never lose weight, how come?

Skinny people look healthy on the outside but can technically be obese because of visceral fat.

So I know there are plenty of smug folk's out there thinking there is NO WAY THEY ARE OBESE.

Well the standard now by British researchers taking into consideration the above is easy to determine if you obese:

Take a measurement of your Total Height, half it in two and then measure your waist with that half, if you cant go under that your obese. Lot of you folk's are in for a big surprise.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0606090942.htm

Gilly, wth is 'half it in two' mean? I'm assuming you mean 'divide it by two'.

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Originally Posted by sawbill

Gilly, wth is 'half it in two' mean? I'm assuming you mean 'divide it by two'.

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You got it.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

I used to think that way " They take in more calories than they burn. It's not any more complicated than that. "

But it is more complicated that that, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082693/

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No it isn't

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

There are probably people you know who eat as much as you do but can never lose weight, how come?

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And there are people that can eat whatever they want and not gain weight. People's bodies are different, metabolisms are different. Everyone is looking for a magic bullet to lose weight without doing the work. Your gut biome does affect your health but if you eat over what your body needs you are going to get fat no matter what your gut biome looks like.

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Originally Posted by Gilroy

Skinny people look healthy on the outside but can technically be obese because of visceral fat.

So I know there are plenty of smug folk's out there thinking there is NO WAY THEY ARE OBESE.

Well the standard now by British researchers taking into consideration the above is easy to determine if you obese:

Take a measurement of your Total Height, half it in two and then measure your waist with that half, if you cant go under that your obese. Lot of you folk's are in for a big surprise.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0606090942.htm

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They don't think they are obese because they really aren't. They are obese in the same way that having 5 drinks at the same occasion once a month makes you a binge drinker as defined by the The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

We also need to look into the term obese and the range it encompasses. When they talk about it being a comorbidity for COVID I don't think they are talking about normal 6ft 200lbs guys carrying around and extra 20 or 30 pounds. I think they are talking more about the pornography type definition "I can't describe it but I know it when I see it".

Also 80 people in a study by British researchers is a curiosity not a new standard.

Every time I feel fat I just go to the US and I feel skinny again

Silly you MikePAL, bring reality and facts into a discussion....:)

Now that a Year's worth of data is rolling in, it's exposing the shuffling of death numbers from many big killers in America like obesity. They're running out of fingers to plug all these holes in the dam, it's about to burst.
The last third of this video shows a report from the CDC, it's pretty telling.

https://youtu.be/8a0-5tLQ5NY

Let’s also not forget that it’s not just “fast” food... in the last few years the rise of UberEats, SkipTheDishes, etc must have contributed to the obesity epidemic, in especially so when stay-at-home orders are in place and the govt is encouraging their use (I’d also like to help restaurant owners)

So i'm fat so what, I enjoy life and food.

I have a heavy mid section myself I know where it comes from. Not alot of fast food more the carb intake and high calories ad a few liters of chocolate milk to the mix lol. It's just the belly the last pregnancy with the wife really got to me and never left.

I eat well what can I say but it's only my belly . Looks like a big beer belly but nope no beer for this guy.

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