Maternity wards to widen delivery-room doors for obese mothers - Page 3

*DIVA! · January 15th, 2009, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by celeb_2006

Somewhere in Africa a woman is considered more attractive as a wife if she is really obese. I think that the woman in that part of the country spend most of their waking hours stuffing themselves when they are ready to marry. I remember watching a program on it but can't remember.

I saw that documentary as well.

sue_trask · January 15th, 2009, 02:51 PM

i saw it also

tictac · January 15th, 2009, 03:00 PM

Oh yea, I saw that too. The poor girl had to live alone in a hut for months drinking jugs and jugs of some kind of fatty milk. She seemed miserable and did not like getting fatter.

The part that cracked me up was the grandmother sitting next to her offering encouragement, while whispering "drink it or I'll beat you" in as nice a way as possible.

DeadDwarf · January 15th, 2009, 03:00 PM

I did not see it..... I should check out youtube!

sputnik · January 15th, 2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by tictac

Oh yea, I saw that too. The poor girl had to live alone in a hut for months drinking jugs and jugs of some kind of fatty milk. She seemed miserable and did not like getting fatter.

The part that cracked me up was the grandmother sitting next to her offering encouragement, while whispering "drink it or I'll beat you" in as nice a way as possible.

and dead dwarf, your avatar is hilarious. creepy but totally awesome.

sluce · January 15th, 2009, 05:00 PM

I wonder how old these hospital are. It sounds like they probably needed to widen the door to accomodate newer medical equipment too. There are few people in the world who need doors widened so they can fit through them if the doors are an average size to begin with.

sue_trask · January 15th, 2009, 05:21 PM

times change and what ppl look like will change. i remember going to a old house that was build in 1800s and you can see how short the ppl back then was to people now.

sputnik · January 15th, 2009, 05:35 PM

yeah but people getting taller with each generation means they're generally healthier. getting fatter is not a positive thing.

sue_trask · January 15th, 2009, 06:24 PM

neither at times is being thin. you cant always go by weight to measure healthy

sputnik · January 15th, 2009, 06:31 PM

^^^^
so? that doesn't make obesity a good thing.
neither excessively thin nor overweight is good. i don't think you can say the rise in obesity in recent times is not a sign of people getting healthier.

MrsDark · January 15th, 2009, 06:44 PM

Er. We don't exactly have the numbers of unhealthily thin folk walking around that we do obese.

Nowhere near, in fact.

Penny Lane · January 16th, 2009, 12:15 PM

I'm torn on this issue. I know obesity is an epidemic of increasingly-alarming proportions in the world... but where is the boundary between hands-off and interventionist approaches drawn? As I noted in the 'Open letter' thread, I don't care if a person is obese.. it's their life and they can choose to adopt whatever lifestyle they so choose.. but when a persons weight and/or lifestyle choices may infringe upon the health of their children pre- and post-delivery, then I really think it becomes a matter of NEEDING to implement necessary changes for the sake of the child.

JMO.

Rica · January 17th, 2009, 10:50 AM

fat people are a drain on the health care system, it is unnessary for them to be fat, for 99pct of people its something they can fix themselves by eating healthy and exercising, but most dont. its not like cancer or something like that, that is uncontrollable and unpreventable.
lazy people are damn annoying

*DIVA! · January 17th, 2009, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Rica

fat people are a drain on the health care system, it is unnecessary for them to be fat, for 99pct of people its something they can fix themselves by eating healthy and exercising, but most dont. its not like cancer or something like that, that is uncontrollable and unpreventable.
lazy people are damn annoying

Not all fat people are lazy. Not all of us don't exercise... that stereotype is bullshit. I've always worked harder and played even harder than most of my slim friends and family members...

Rica · January 17th, 2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by SSDiva

Not all fat people are lazy. Not all of us don't exercise... that stereotype is bullshit. I've always worked harder and played even harder than most of my slim friends and family members...

I'm more refering to the people who shove fried food, junk food, fat filled food down their throats daily and wonder why they are obese and dont do anything to fix the problem, just keep on eating those burgers...