Morbid Obesity

Alice Faber wrote in message ...

A few years ago,
Sports Illustrated had a cover story about health problems of retired
NFL players. Mostly these were players who had played before the era of
300+ pound linemen, but horrible degenerative arthritis was widespread;

Sad. But it isn't connected to obesity.

the cover photo was of Johnny Unitas' hand, which was so affected by
arthritis that he could no longer grip a coffee cup let alone a football.

Watching Joe Namath walk is quite sobering as well.

I agree that these men will become spectacularly unhealthy if they
maintain this weight after they retire from professional sports. I'm
not sure that being that weight is healthy even with a high
muscle-to-fat ratio!

However, they are certainly not "morbidly obese" by the usual medical
criteria, despite the fact that their scale weight is more than 100
pounds above the suggested norm.

T.

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(TdN) wrote:

Alice Faber wrote in message
...

A few years ago,
Sports Illustrated had a cover story about health problems of retired
NFL players. Mostly these were players who had played before the era of
300+ pound linemen, but horrible degenerative arthritis was widespread;

Sad. But it isn't connected to obesity.

Hand problems aren't, but knee and hip problems arguably are.

the cover photo was of Johnny Unitas' hand, which was so affected by
arthritis that he could no longer grip a coffee cup let alone a football.

Watching Joe Namath walk is quite sobering as well.

Well, he had knee problems all along, and I believe was 4F (unfit to be
drafted) *during* his NFL career.

I agree that these men will become spectacularly unhealthy if they
maintain this weight after they retire from professional sports. I'm
not sure that being that weight is healthy even with a high
muscle-to-fat ratio!

I'm not sure how healthy they are, by other inditia (blood pressure,
blood sugar, cholesterol), even if their weight isn't interfering with
ordinary living or even doing their job.

--
AF
"Non Sequitur U has a really, really lousy debate team."
--artyw raises the bar on rec.sport.baseball

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definition:
A diagnosed condition in which the body weight exceeds the normal
weight by either 100 pounds or is twice the normal weight of a person
the same height.



Literal Translation: Dead Fat

I hate terms like that.