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So you could ask: on a general basis, will someone's blood levels be better for someone who recently became obese (passing a certain treshold for certain parameters) opposed to someone who has been obese (who has passed these parameters) for years? I think the answer is: yes.

On June 09 2015 19:31 xM(Z wrote:

compare a 20yr old 1yr into his obesity and a 50yr old 3 months into his obesity and that answer becomes no.
the 50yr old will be way worse even if he'd been obese for a shorter period of time.

On June 09 2015 19:31 xM(Z wrote:
compare a 20yr old 1yr into his obesity and a 50yr old 3 months into his obesity and that answer becomes no.
the 50yr old will be way worse even if he'd been obese for a shorter period of time.

On June 09 2015 22:13 Uldridge wrote:

You really have troubles reading, don't you?
I mention on a general basis in my last paragraph.
And I said in the previous paragraph: because on a case to case level this might not always hold up, because genetics and age, like xM(X said, will also play a role.

Then you make this hyperbolic cherrypicked hypothetical example.

On June 09 2015 23:44 helpman176 wrote:
The original question for me was if there can be obese people that are perfectly healthy.

I read a publication that states that 10-20% of obese do not have any health issues. However, the study did not take into account the duration of obesity. Since the negative effect of obesity on health is long term, it is actually expected that a certain percentage of obese people do not have any health issues (since they are in the early stages of obesity and diseases have not become manifest yet).

Now, one can have bad blood values, but still not have any health issues yet.
So the question is if those early stage obese people are perfectly healthy in that they also have blood values comparable to non-obese people or if their blood values are already harbingers for their later health issues.

On June 09 2015 23:44 helpman176 wrote:
The original question for me was if there can be obese people that are perfectly healthy.

I read a publication that states that 10-20% of obese do not have any health issues. However, the study did not take into account the duration of obesity. Since the negative effect of obesity on health is long term, it is actually expected that a certain percentage of obese people do not have any health issues (since they are in the early stages of obesity and diseases have not become manifest yet).

Now, one can have bad blood values, but still not have any health issues yet.
So the question is if those early stage obese people are perfectly healthy in that they also have blood values comparable to non-obese people or if their blood values are already harbingers for their later health issues.

On June 10 2015 00:01 Thieving Magpie wrote:


Obesity is a ratio between height and weight while terms such as "healthy" are fairly relative unless you have specific values that are being used.

Usually, the measurable values are assumed with Obesity in mind. If people with obesity has a statistical reading different from non-obese people, then its considered bad via tautology. Conversely, if there are statistical commonalities amongst non-obese that different from the statistical readouts of obese people--then it's considered healthy via tautology.

For the most part, most people who become obese will be unhealthy long before they reach the ratio. But whether the same is true for healthy people--that they can be healthy and just happen to hit the ratio, I am not trained well enough to know.

As for your question--yes, its very much possible to have perfectly healthy obese people depending on what it is about them that gives them that weight. Body builders can be technically obese, for example, if their muscle mass is pumped up above normal levels via steroids/drug use/excessive protien+carb consumption--but no one really "counts" those types of people because they do not fit our image of the "obese."

The same is true for people that are overly short with "normal" weight for their age--but not their height. But I don't think that's what you're asking for either.

On June 09 2015 23:44 helpman176 wrote:
The original question for me was if there can be obese people that are perfectly healthy.

I read a publication that states that 10-20% of obese do not have any health issues. However, the study did not take into account the duration of obesity. Since the negative effect of obesity on health is long term, it is actually expected that a certain percentage of obese people do not have any health issues (since they are in the early stages of obesity and diseases have not become manifest yet).

Now, one can have bad blood values, but still not have any health issues yet.
So the question is if those early stage obese people are perfectly healthy in that they also have blood values comparable to non-obese people or if their blood values are already harbingers for their later health issues.

On June 10 2015 05:26 Epishade wrote:
Can a girl have sex with a dead guy and get pregnant?

If so, how does he pay child support?

On June 10 2015 05:36 [Phantom] wrote:
No its not posible to be obese and healthy.

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/obesity-risks

I mean, Obese or fat people deserve respect, but those people that go around saying its ok to be bad...no, its not ok.

On June 10 2015 05:26 Epishade wrote:
Can a girl have sex with a dead guy and get pregnant?

If so, how does he pay child support?

On June 10 2015 06:22 OtherWorld wrote:

Well post-mortem erection is a thing, thus we can think that post-mortem ejaculation can be a thing too, though it's probably something no one wants to verify. Post-mortem sperm retrieval is a thing too, though I'm unsure of its legality in various countries.