freediver wrote on Apr 21
st, 2023 at 6:40am:
Quote:You know… I hate to break it to you Gordon… you being a young man…but getting older does have its health issues that creep up and sometimes unexpectedly.
The health consequences of obesity are hardly unexpected. Her doctor has probably warned her plenty of times already.
Most likely.
I’ve observed in my lengthy lifetime…. how weighty issues are similar to smoking issues with certain people. Some can be overweight and live to their 80s same as some smoke and live to their 90s even!
Yet others are taken from life earlier from either obesity or smoking.
In fact, one such person I know in his early 80s now, up until his 60s smoked 3 packs cigarettes per day and he has quite a large girth.
He gave up smoking. But I honestly thought he’d be gone by now…
Yet my brother, not overweight at all, but smoked…is gone from life 3 years ago age 61.
My mother had the highest cholesterol yet she was the skinniest person and never ate takeaway,always cooked healthy meals, lived to over 90.
It seems some can survive better than others with health or weight issues whist others don’t.
Something to do with a strong constitution?
I’ve noticed the males on my mum’s side of family that smoke… have bad emphysema and it takes them by their 60s and the ones that don’t smoke were living longer.
Yet a neighbour across the road smoked till she was in her 90s and quite honestly, one won’t know if the body can handle it until it’s too late.
Best not to smoke rather than risk shortening life.
That neighbour’s husband lived past 100 and he never smoked.
As for weight issues, some may be fitter than their trimmer friends.
For instance, trimmer folk that smoke, and not exercise, may have less energy/lung capacity than another overweight person that doesn’t smoke and is very active.
People are very different that we can’t really pigeon hole them on their weight only.