• Truffle@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      ask any doctor, being overweight is unhealthy.

      I’m not saying we should be assholes to fat people but we should still teach kids that being overweight is unhealthy

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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        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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          8 months ago

          I would say that this is a problem of lacking resources, not laziness. I’ve never met a doctor that didn’t have a constant stream of patients and non-stop work to do.

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      8 months 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.