How many elderly people are grotesquely obese?
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I completely agree, I may not have said it like that, but I do agree. My husband and I have talked several times about how you don't see elderly obese people. I used to work in a retirement facility. In the building I worked in we had 50 residents. 1 was overweight. She was also one of the youngest people living there. You don't see them because they don't live that long! \n\nI don't know why people can't see that allowing yourself to become incredibly overweight is what is causing their health problems. I can name four people off hand in my extended family that are severely overweight. Among those four they share kidney disfunction, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and asthma.\n\nYeah, being overweight doesn't cause health problems...right!\n\nAnd in response to the person who said fatness is a disease...NO IT'S NOT! That's an excuse! Being overweight is a disorder called "Eating too much and not exercising".
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God Damn to many!!!!!!!!
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none just cos people obese dont mean they have learning probs
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you'd be dead if you weighed under 60...
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It takes ten years of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day before it shows up on paper - notheless, I doubt anyone would argue that inhaling the smoke, tars, and nicotines of 60,000 cigarettes is a good thing.  \n\nOur bodies have an amazing ability to adapt especially when we are relatively young.  Once we start to age that compensation is less pronounced.  So the question you have to ask yourself, is how many morbidly obese 80 year olds do you see wondering the streets?  Yeah, they either lost weight or they passed before they got to be 80 - of something. \n\nYour lab work is not the end-all be-all of health.  Neither are other studies like a head to foot CT exam.  On the other hand obesity is not even in the top five of cardiac risk factors.  It does however strain the heart to profuse more tissue than normal.  Obesity does predispose you to hypertension and to diabetes.  I suspect if we have this discussion in twenty years, both of those conditions (DM and HTN) would be affecting you - and they ARE among the top five risk factors for cardiac disease.\n\nFinally while I support your efforts to loose weight, I certainly do not support weight loss at any cost, including dangerous medications or procedures that put you at unnecessary risk.\n\nI hope this helps.  Good luck.
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wow! 32?! dang you gotta cane yet?!\nhaha\n\nyeah i totally think they're a bunch of turds.\nhahaha..thats funny
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AOL.com just had an article about obesity (although there is no obesity category for children, oddly enough; they're just overweight).  Some crazy numbers on how many adults and children are overweight and obese.  Try checking that out for starters?
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I'm glad somebody asked this question. I'm 36, and to a lot of people on here that probably seems old. The avitars all look 18 and skinny. What about us old people that have a bald spot and a spare tire?
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You do know that girdles and corsets caused a slue of internal organ and spinal problems right.\n\nGet off your high horse.\n\nand since I know you are thinking it: no I am not fat and no I am not old.
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Alzheimer's is pretty major in the elderly.  They forget and become agressive.
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In 2005 a study by research firm TNS of 500 women over 15 found 2/3 were overweight for their height and 1/4 were clinically obese. Only 17% did any regular exercise.
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a tough one, but just off the top of my head, senior citizens.  and thats no joke!
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only if old people are watching
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about 120,000 nowadays
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Topic:Obese Children.\n\nObesity is not  a problem for middle aged group alone,nowadays even small children of age group of 8-10 is getting obese out of various reasons.Impact of fast foods and lack of physical activities plays a major role in this problem.Kids in metros and cosmopolitan cities are more affected than in small towns and counties.Regular exercise,calorie cautious food and GOD's diet(vegan diet) can be  the best solutions for this problem rather than going for medicines.
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60 i think, 20 are obese and 30 or 40 are overweight
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I am 54 yo and have been skinny all my life no matter how much I eat.  People used to say things like that to me all the time.  Over time I learned to ignore them.  If you are healthy and feel good just be happy and ignore stupid people.