Skip Dessert, Hit The Gym
Hopefully I won't offend or lose any readers over this particular entry, but I'm a firm believer in personal responsibility when it comes to one's own health and their choices. While I believe that hospitals should have the proper equipment to provide the very best care for the occasional obese patient, I think it is ridiculous that hospitals have to stretch their already exhausted budgets to accommodate a rapid increase in obese patients. Money that could be used for new technology and lab equipment, etc. is earmarked for construction to widen doorways, replacing existing beds to accommondate up to 500 pounds as opposed to the 350 pound existing limit, wider wheelchairs, longer needles that will penetrate the girth, toilets refit to the floor and not the wall so that they don't bust off while in use...
Sweet Jesus people! If you're busting the toilets off of walls and flipping beds when you sit up in them, that is a brick wall falling on you letting you know that it is time to do something about your weight. The existing equipment supports up to 350 pounds. Repeat after me: Three hundred and fifty pounds! Holy crap! Isn't that big enough?
Get active for Pete's sake. Walk a few times a week and do simple exercises right in your living room. Eat healthy and smaller portions. There is no quick fix, no miracle diet. Everything in moderation and a tremendous amount of good old fashioned will power will make a world of difference. I know or have heard from overweight people who claim they've tried every diet in the book and nothing worked. To that I say...horse-feathers! That's the problem right there; that particular line of thinking. A diet isn't a temporary solution...a diet is a complete lifestlye change, indefinetely. People give up when they don't get the results they want fast enough, so instead of continuing, they go back to their old, terribly unhealthy habits. I understand that there is a small percentage of people who will be obese no matter what, but the current trend does not reflect that. It reflects too much food and too little activity and now hospitals are having to spend unnecessarily because they are finding that on some days anywhere from one third to one half of their patients are obese.
Hospitals Make Changes to Care for Obese
Sweet Jesus people! If you're busting the toilets off of walls and flipping beds when you sit up in them, that is a brick wall falling on you letting you know that it is time to do something about your weight. The existing equipment supports up to 350 pounds. Repeat after me: Three hundred and fifty pounds! Holy crap! Isn't that big enough?
Get active for Pete's sake. Walk a few times a week and do simple exercises right in your living room. Eat healthy and smaller portions. There is no quick fix, no miracle diet. Everything in moderation and a tremendous amount of good old fashioned will power will make a world of difference. I know or have heard from overweight people who claim they've tried every diet in the book and nothing worked. To that I say...horse-feathers! That's the problem right there; that particular line of thinking. A diet isn't a temporary solution...a diet is a complete lifestlye change, indefinetely. People give up when they don't get the results they want fast enough, so instead of continuing, they go back to their old, terribly unhealthy habits. I understand that there is a small percentage of people who will be obese no matter what, but the current trend does not reflect that. It reflects too much food and too little activity and now hospitals are having to spend unnecessarily because they are finding that on some days anywhere from one third to one half of their patients are obese.
Hospitals Make Changes to Care for Obese
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