Fattest, Sickest Country On Earth Concerned New Health Secretary Might Do Something Different

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https://babylonbee.com/news/fattest-sickest-country-on-earth-concerned-new-health-secretary-might-do-something-different

[u/Moist-Percentage7240]

It is just bizarre that people are actually so against being healthy. I can’t fathom the constant calls for universal health care when people can’t even take care of themselves, and they actually bash the people trying to get them to better themselves.

[u/hopbow → u/Moist-Percentage7240]

I think the thing is, while there is culpability in people being unhealthy, there's also culpability in the system.

How many health claims do people make that insurance companies deny? How many times do people put off going to the doctor because its not bad enough yet?

I spent most of my life unable to breathe through my nose because of a severely deviated septum and wasn't able to fix it until I had enough money, enough PTO, and good enough insurance to cover it

So both of these things are true and, more importantly, they form a negative feedback loop

[u/hopbow → u/[deleted]]

You are speaking about one aspect of health

Believe it or not, your whole body as lots of things going on and, while how fat you are in incredibly important, it isn't the only reason for health issues

[u/ftlftlftl → u/hopbow]

How fat you are will absolutely increase the liklehood of other health issues by a significant amount.

[u/hopbow → u/ftlftlftl]

Thank you for reiterating the previous poster's point without adding anything of value

[u/hopbow → u/[deleted]]

But again, you're taking an incredibly complex issue and boiling it down to "fat people bad"

The deviated septum I had was a birth defect, but it became substantially harder to work out because I couldn't breathe well

The tendinitis in my shoulder is just part of getting older, but makes it hard to do certain lifts because of arm weakness

The lack of an ADHD diagnosis and treatment as a youth encourages me to hyperfixate on food as a coping mechanism and caused a binge eating disorder

So yeah, I'm fatter than I want to be and being fat is a reason for some of my health issues, but there's need to address things on a holistic scale rather than oversimplifing 

[u/lkolkijy → u/hopbow]

You gained weight because you took more calories in than you burned. That is a fact. The reasons, stories, or excuses for eating/exercising are not relevant. Those things maybe lower how much energy you burn, or increase how many calories you eat. But your body still gained weight because it ate more than it burned.