If obesity is a disease, what about sedentarianism and inactivity?
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/69/3/373
Anecdotal experience of 3 years in a cardiac cath lab agrees with the study's observations. Many male patients were rather thin and lanky, but with a "cardiac gut" hanging over the belt. Conversely, all of us know "heavy-set" people who are in great cardiovascular shape.
People can get prescriptions and surgeries to loose weight; thus, being overweight is a legitimate medical condition. There is no good medical prescription to substitute for exercise. There's antidepressants to hopefully help us feel like doing it, but that's about it. Sedentarianism and inactivity, although apparently a huge risk to health, and suffered by millions of Americans, has no good commercial medical antidote. Don't bet on seeing it hyped up too much in the future.
-dras
Planning to take the credit (and royalties on sales of prescriptions) for Sedentarianism and Inactivity becoming more of a key diagnostic criterion for diagnosing depression.
Anecdotal experience of 3 years in a cardiac cath lab agrees with the study's observations. Many male patients were rather thin and lanky, but with a "cardiac gut" hanging over the belt. Conversely, all of us know "heavy-set" people who are in great cardiovascular shape.
People can get prescriptions and surgeries to loose weight; thus, being overweight is a legitimate medical condition. There is no good medical prescription to substitute for exercise. There's antidepressants to hopefully help us feel like doing it, but that's about it. Sedentarianism and inactivity, although apparently a huge risk to health, and suffered by millions of Americans, has no good commercial medical antidote. Don't bet on seeing it hyped up too much in the future.
-dras
Planning to take the credit (and royalties on sales of prescriptions) for Sedentarianism and Inactivity becoming more of a key diagnostic criterion for diagnosing depression.
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