I've heard before some of your take on the health thing - I think you made a lot of valid points.
By professionally compelled, I mean that 'big and healthy' school of thought is not represented in our training. We are taught that obesity is associated with many illnesses, and were I to argue the opposite in an exam would quite certainly fail it.
I actually think the reality is somewhere in between, with having more weight decreasing your chance of some illnesses and increasing the chance of others. Ischaemic heart disease is one that springs to mind.
My personal take on it is that size doesn't matter when it comes to a person's beauty or 'value', and that when you're young it is perfectly possible to be overweight and healthy.
But in my experience of working with people in hospital it makes things harder for the person health-wise if/when they do get sick, and when they get older.
Even if, for the sake of this debate, being overweight doesn't affect the chance of an illness occurring. Obese people are still more difficult to examine effectively, more difficult to intubate and operate on, more difficult to scan, etc. And this may in itself turn lead to a poorer outcome. The other issue is mobility; knees are your friends when you're old and or sick.
I don't mean this in any offensive way, so I apologise if it comes across as such.
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By professionally compelled, I mean that 'big and healthy' school of thought is not represented in our training. We are taught that obesity is associated with many illnesses, and were I to argue the opposite in an exam would quite certainly fail it.
I actually think the reality is somewhere in between, with having more weight decreasing your chance of some illnesses and increasing the chance of others. Ischaemic heart disease is one that springs to mind.
My personal take on it is that size doesn't matter when it comes to a person's beauty or 'value', and that when you're young it is perfectly possible to be overweight and healthy.
But in my experience of working with people in hospital it makes things harder for the person health-wise if/when they do get sick, and when they get older.
Even if, for the sake of this debate, being overweight doesn't affect the chance of an illness occurring. Obese people are still more difficult to examine effectively, more difficult to intubate and operate on, more difficult to scan, etc. And this may in itself turn lead to a poorer outcome. The other issue is mobility; knees are your friends when you're old and or sick.
I don't mean this in any offensive way, so I apologise if it comes across as such.