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> what are your options? We're a year and a half into it. We have the data. Aside from vaccination and some degree of proper ventilation, you need to: 1. Not
by caeril 5y ago
> what are your options?
We're a year and a half into it. We have the data. Aside from vaccination and some degree of proper ventilation, you need to:
1. Not be old.
2. Not be fat.
We talk a lot about #1, but #2 is taboo. We, as a society, prefers that you die unnecessarily young from COVID than feel a little bit of shame. Not to mention #2 was already murdering nearly half a million Americans annually on its own prior to COVID.
This needs to be fixed. Sugar/corn industry lobbyists and fast food advertisers should have been publicly hanged decades ago. Now we have even more incentive to address the issue, but I suppose slowly dying at the age of 37, gasping for breath, is a small price to pay to avoid feeling slightly negative about being 300lbs or impact the dividends of the Coca Cola Corporation.
- tester756 5y ago>but #2 is taboo. where?
- sharken 5y agoYou are absolutely right. Number 2 is hard to fix as lobbyists and fast food companies have a lot of influence. But it is concerning that of US women from age 20 and up, 60% or more are considered overweight. A woman 50 years old has an average weight of 80 kg, using the Miller ideal weight formula and a height of 170 cm, the weight should be 62.5 kg. https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/average-weight-for-women https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/average-weig... There should be some kind of reward or benefit for those that can keep to the ideal weight for a longer period of say 1 year.