Can fat people be healthy?

[FreakMonster]

Please tell me that fat people can't be healthy EVEN if they eat good.

I have this fat bitch at work telling me that she eats very healthy and that by her being fat it does not make her unhealthy. She says she prefers to be fat rather than skinny.

Tell me why it is unhealthy to be an overwieght person.

 

[FreakMonster]

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[addickt]

I am 5'10 225 with 7% BF but I suspect that "fat bitch" is more healthy than I am ... When it comes to internal organs etc..... I suppose it depends on your defenition of healthy.

 

[Sebass67]

My definition of how healthy one is is how athletic one is. Fat doesn't exactly help...

 

[frorider6]

fat = high blood pressure, diabetes, increased pressure and strain on the heart, etc.

 

[huntmaster]

fat = high blood pressure, diabetes, increased pressure and strain on the heart, etc.

exactly---the more excess fat that one carries, the harder their body has to work.

She probably has become hopeless of loosing the weight and has talked herself into living with it and making the most of it.

Maybe you can give her new motivation---positive motivation.

 

[Sebass67]

Yeah tell her she is a fat cow who should look in the mirror sometime and get her facts straight before talking.

Boy oh boy i am being harsh today..

 

[gymtime]

I am 5'10 225 with 7% BF but I suspect that "fat bitch" is more healthy than I am ... When it comes to internal organs etc..... I suppose it depends on your defenition of healthy.

True. Also depends on your definition of "fat." Some on this board would describe anyone over 10% bf as fat, while others would kill to get down that low. One man's ceiling is another man's floor....

 

[addickt]

My definition of how healthy one is is how athletic one is. Fat doesn't exactly help...

In reality that is not true... but it sounds nice. I am about as "athletic" as anyone you will ever meet but I piss blood, my kidneys ache all day and I cannot fall asleep witout HUGE doses of sleeping pills..

But I can Bench almost 500 lbs and run a 4.5 40.... I am not healthy though.

Athleticism is not always indicative of health...

 

[Sebass67]

I guess i have a different view of athletic ...i always assume naturally athletic...u have to have a really good solid base of health to become really athletic naturally...

4.5 40 time.....holy shit...