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In reply to the discussion: Unvaccinated couple who both got COVID-19 die within hours of each other, leaving 7 children [View all]NickB79
(19,233 posts)36. "Metabolically healthy obese" is a myth
https://consumer.healthday.com/b-6-11-there-is-no-healthy-obesity-study-confirms-2653277372.html
FRIDAY, June 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There is no such thing as healthy obesity, a Scottish study reports.
A normal metabolic profile doesn't mean an obese person is actually healthy, because he or she still has an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and respiratory illness, University of Glasgow researchers explained.
"The term 'metabolically healthy obesity' should be avoided in clinical medicine as it is misleading, and different strategies for defining risk should be explored," wrote researchers led by Frederick Ho, a research associate at the university's Institute of Health and Wellbeing. The study was published June 10 in the journal Diabetologia.
A normal metabolic profile doesn't mean an obese person is actually healthy, because he or she still has an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and respiratory illness, University of Glasgow researchers explained.
"The term 'metabolically healthy obesity' should be avoided in clinical medicine as it is misleading, and different strategies for defining risk should be explored," wrote researchers led by Frederick Ho, a research associate at the university's Institute of Health and Wellbeing. The study was published June 10 in the journal Diabetologia.
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Unvaccinated couple who both got COVID-19 die within hours of each other, leaving 7 children [View all]
Jose Garcia
Sep 2021
OP
Play stupid games, children suffer. Thus Darwin award once removed: Reducing grandchildren's chances
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2021
#5
I really regret that the MAGATs have made it such that my reaction to this story
Otto_Harper
Sep 2021
#2
Yes, counter to my post #5, maybe they actually *improved* their children's & gchildren's chances.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2021
#10
Okay..so ya don't wanna get the vaccine..could you at the very least consider your kids??!!
PortTack
Sep 2021
#6
Tragic for those kids left behind but my grief is for the ones who never had an opportunity
halfulglas
Sep 2021
#12
I know there is a complicated history for black Americans with new vaccines and treatments
AkFemDem
Sep 2021
#16
Yeah...well sucks for the kids. Hope they find NORMAL THINKING adults to care for and raise them.
sdfernando
Sep 2021
#19
According to her sister, they went to Florida to grieve the lose of her mother, who died of COVID.
SharonClark
Sep 2021
#41