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What is something that gets a lot of hate for absolutely no reason? (midwest.social)
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[โ€“] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think the issue is with normalizing unhealthy bodies. idc how you look as long as you're healthy, but society is becoming increasingly accepting of obviously unhealthy lifestyles and bodies. It's no better than anorexia.

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  • [โ€“] -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Unhealthy bodies like how? What dobyou mean by that? How can you know someone's health status and or lifestyle by the way they look? If that were true, blood Labs and other tests would be useless.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can get the rough strokes from looks. Blood tests give you more specific information on what is wrong, if anything.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Meh, that is lazy medicine IMHO and at the same time, it says a lot about the health system and its practitioners. We need better educated more empathetic doctors who go beyond looking at someone to make assumptions about someone's health.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago

    If your eyeballs are missing, I can make an assumption that your vision isn't great just by looking at you. That's not a moral judgement.

    Doesn't mean blood tests are useless, and in fact it means we have some idea where to start investigating a potential health problem.

    Yes, I agree that there's bias against folks who are overweight, and also that there's a range of risk associated with being overweight. It's pretty clear, however, that obesity is a health concern that we should take seriously. If someone smokes five pack of cigs a day, I'm going to make an assumption about their lung health. There's always outliers that live to 100 smoking and not doing exercise, but it would be a shit doctor if they didn't tell folks not to follow their example.

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