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LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: This place is lol (4/20/2011 9:34:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TheShrew
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ORIGINAL: hotlikeafox
I said there is no medical condition that causes you to be fat.
What about Cushing syndrome? You know what happens with C.S., right? No? Alright, skippy, sit down, pay attention and I'll attempt a condensed, crash course in "Day 1 A&P stuff."
Here's the short version .. a pituitary tumor causes an overproduction of adrenocorticotropic hormone{ACTH} .. which overstimulates the adrenal gland ... which causes the over secretion of cortisol. <~ How easy was that episode of connect the dots??
{UNLESS, you have NFI what excess cortisol causes. Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Hmm, I'll take "causes excess adipose tissue" for $500.00, please, Alex.}
That's right, one of the signs/symptoms of Cushing syndrome is "central obesity." {Do I need to define that term for you, slick, or can you solve that brain buster on your own?} BTW, the excess cortisol can also cause diabetes. Luckily, you're immune from tumors, right?
Anywho, there is also Hypothyroidism. This is when your thyroid gland doesn't produce enough T3/T4. Essentially, these hormones regulate metabolism. SO, what did you say someone needs to do if they have NO/ faulty metabolic regulation? Oh, right, exercise more. {That will really show that pesky non-functioning endocrine organ who's boss!}
Also I'm sure you'll think this is a stretch because there "may" be a link between obesity and Polycystic ovary syndrome. However, that link is unproven, but it has been proven that P.C.O.S. does cause metabolic syndrome. A symptom of which is, {you guessed it, pal}, "central obesity." {You remember that definition from my explanation of Cushing, right?}
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ORIGINAL: hotlikeafox
I'm not the one at risk of diabetes.
If I understand correctly, you're implying that obesity = diabetes? Interesting. So .. when an perfectly healthy 4 year old is diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus, it has nothing to do with a faulty pancreas/destruction of the beta cells in the islet of Langerhans?
Wow, not only have you just blown my mind, you've also rewritten the diagnostic criteria for Diabetes Mellitus. {Way to go, little buddy! AMA & AJM, here you come!}
{Based on what you've said so far, I'd say you need a bolus of potassium chloride. Stat.}
I just want to say how much I admire those of you who have come onto this thread & talked about reality. I haven't seen the OP in a long time now. I hope that he's learning something from the posts here. He started out calling individuals liars for telling him their experience was different from what he believes it should have been. And now he's apparently decided to stfu. I don't wish bad things on anyone, but I hope that as he gets more years on him that he will realize how foolish he has been here & probably elsewhere in his life.
I was a skinny young woman, raised in a fat family. The obesity didn't get me until I took a medication that "might cause a little weight gain". There are hundreds of medications out there with that particular side effect. For me it was an attempt to save my life. It worked for that, but I gained 100 lbs in 10 weeks. Imagine being a size 6 & ballooning up to a size 24 in 2.5 months. That was 10 lbs each week. And I was very carefully watching my diet & I was attempting to exercise. But I got so big so fast that my back got so it wouldn't allow me to walk. Before the medication, I walked an average of 5 miles per day, 7 days a week. I sold my car & walked to & from work & anywhere else I wanted to go. If it was more than 5 miles away, I took the bus. Finally after I achieved the 100 lbs weight gain, I told the dr that they were going to have to find something else for me to take because it appeared that I would continue gaining that 10 lbs every week as long as I took that medication. When I stopped the medication, I didn't change anything else. I didn't eat better, didn't start an exercise regimen, but I stopped gaining weight. Magic, huh??
Unfortunately, I've only ever been able to take off 50 lbs of that weight gain. It's been very discouraging. And people telling me that it couldn't possibly have been the medication, I must have eaten too much always makes me laugh. Because in order to gain one lb, a person needs to ingest 3,500 calories more than they use. So that means I would have had to eat 5,000 more calories every day than I was eating before the medication. I would have spent my whole day eating!!
There are many reasons for people to be the size that they are. I hope that the OP will take this opportunity to educate himself & if he really cares so passionately about the obesity epidemic in this country, he'll work to help correct it.
If not, may I please administer that bolus? kthxbai
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