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T.

[Brian Ellis]

Sorry, Tony, I think this is rather unfunny. The young lady has a glandular disorder and cannot help her morphology. To make fun of sick people is too facile, IMHO.

Just imagine her reaction if she happened on youe image.

[Fat Tone]

No offence meant Brian. I didn't stop to think about it - just seeing it made me laugh when I received it in an email under the title "MOAB - Move Over Atomic Bomb".

I didn't make the image, and I think you'll find that she uses her 'morphology' to her advantage: She gets a lot of publicity, often appearing on lowbrow tv shows, such as EuroTrash.

If anyone else is bothered by it, I'll gladly remove it.

T.

[SpiralDragon]

[Byock]

Bothered?? That is hilarious!!

[Gurm]

Brian,

Stop being politically correct.

Some fat people have a glandular issue.

And some just eat too damn much food.

Period.

I once knew this guy. His wife, in theory, had "a glandular problem". She was 400+ pounds.

I was sympathetic, until we went to dinner.

I watched her consume enough food for a dozen people.

You can blame glands and genes all you like, but this girl was just a HOG. Period. End of story.

- Gurm

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
The young lady has a glandular disorder and cannot help her morphology. To make fun of sick people is too facile, IMHO.

Just imagine her reaction if she happened on youe image.

I don't care what problems she has, she willingly went along with this - or do you think that someone invaded her house and caught her posing for herself in a (ick) bikini?

[Nuno]

Yes, I agree. And more, fat people that have a glandular issue (a very very minor part of them, contrary to common knowedgle) are fat because they eat to much. You can have all glandular disorders that you won´t get fat if you only drink water.

Obese people are like that because they have hypercaloric regimens and don´t exercise. Period.

[Strahd]

I agree with Wombat, if she agreed to a picture in a bikini, then she's alright with her size. If she wasn't at ease with her body, the initial; picture would have never been taken.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

I wonder why no one has bothered to postulate how much mechanical stress is being applied to the surface of that jet!

[ZokesPro]

Hmm, if you compare the size of the pilot to the size of the woman... I'd say she weighs 20000lbs +.

[The PIT]

How £uck did the plane take off??? eek:

[The PIT]

Brian Loosen up old chap she was quite happy to have her pic taken with the err swim suit on.

[ZokesPro]

She probably jumped on from the top of a tall building while the plane was flying by. She did it King Kong style.

[Dr Mordrid]

Originally posted by Nuno
Yes, I agree. And more, fat people that have a glandular issue (a very very minor part of them, contrary to common knowedgle) are fat because they eat to much. You can have all glandular disorders that you won´t get fat if you only drink water.

Obese people are like that because they have hypercaloric regimens and don´t exercise. Period.

The hilarity of the image aside; yes, most of those morbidly obese people I've seen actually take in fewer calories than persons their build/height of normal weight.

What mostly varies is activity and metabolic rate, which of course can be but are not always tied together. Conditions that can affect metabolism like thyroid disease etc. are often involved and just as often under-diagnosed.

Because of this far too many people with "borderline" hypothyroidism are untreated because their thyroid stimulating hormone level is slightly above "the line" set by insurance companies or the medical societies, even though they are otherwise symptomatic in terms of weight gain, depression and fatigue. Then there is the involvement of the immune system through diseases like diabetes, which is also very under-diagnosed and under-treated.

I know one 450 lb. man who is very active, even to swimming and riding a bike several miles a day each, but only consumes about 2000 calories/day. He eats a low fat well balanced diet and still cannot lose weight. He's been this way for over 20 years, but shows no sign of heart disease or diabetes. His doctors are totally stumped and can only offer him gastric stapling as the next option, but admit it probably won't work given his already limited intake.

He is not alone.

Why so many people are this way is a mystery, but recent research implies genetic components as well as possible environmental factors unrealted to nominal fat/caloric intakes. In short this is going to take a lot of research.

[soapbox on]

The uppance is that morbid obesity is now at the stage asthma was 50 years ago: people, including physicians, assume it's the patients fault automatically ("it's in your head", etc.) because it's easier for the physician (and society) to blame the patient than to admit ignorance. Hopefully attitudes, understanding and treatments will improve as much for the mobibly obese as they have for asthma.

[soapbox off]

Dr. Mordrid