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H1N1 kills fat people

by Mar Matthias Darin

"Morbid obesity is one of the most common findings turning up in severely ill patients," said Nikki Shindo, who is leading the investigation of N1H1 flu patients at the WHO in Geneva. "It's a huge problem."

In Canada's Manitoba province, three out of five people treated for the new flu strain in intensive care units are obese, said Ethan Rubenstein, head of infectious diseases at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. "Patients with flu symptoms should be considered at risk of complications if they carry excess weight, according to Rubenstein.

"You don't have to go to Scotland or Japan to figure this out," said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. "About 75 percent of patients have underlying conditions, and clearly obesity stands out as a statistically significant factor involved in the seriousness of the disease."

"We were surprised by the frequency of obesity among the severe cases that we've been tracking," Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on May 19. "If there truly is an increased risk of severe complications on obese patients, it would be important to take steps to attend to that."

The scale being used for these results is the Body Mass Index or BMI. Here is the BMI breakdown (source: CDC):

However the BMI does not take into account the size and weight of a person's skeleton or the ratio of body fat to muscle. In fact, a weight lifter would be considered obese by the BMI. The BMI is also not accurate for different ethnic groups according to Dr. Molly Bray.

"Our research shows that the number used to indicate weight category does not reflect the same amount of body fat for some races compared to others," said Dr. Molly Bray, associate professor of pediatrics - nutrition at the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at BCM and Texas Children's Hospital. "The results are consistent with other studies that say BMI is inexact and should be tailored to help target those at risk."

"Right now non-Hispanic white women are not considered obese until they have a BMI of 30 or above. Based on our data in young adults, for Hispanic women the number would be around 28," said Bray. "For African American women the number to cross is around 32."

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but when stuff like this gets released in lieu of a massive push to socialize our health casre system and North Carolina's "Fat Tax", its does give one cause to question whether the N1H1 flu might be an engineered bio-weapon... Given the amount of lies committed by the government and how easily numbers can be skewed for political agendas, is it any wonder why people don't trust the government?

Top tags: bmi, weight, obese, patients, fat, flu, body, bray, considered, diseases

Comments from sharkbytes ^{65.183.168.94}

Interesting... and I like that it thinks my weight is normal. I'd rather weigh 5 pounds less.

Comments from Mar Matthias Darin

I know what you mean....

Comments from Matt Savage ^{129.10.129.222}

An engineered bio-weapon... seriously?!?!

I think you are reading too much into this. It seems simple and obvious to me, being obese is a sign that one leads an unhealthy lifestyle by not eating right and not exercising. This type of lifestyle has a negative effect on one's immune system. Thus it would make sense that people with weak immune systems are more susceptible to dying from not just H1N1 but all diseases.

Comments from Mar Matthias Darin

Why not? There are those in our own government that think SARS was a bio-weapon. As I said, I don't ascribe to that sort of thinking, but given the reaction to SARS, it does have a certain aire of plausibility.

Yet there is research that says being obese to some degree can be healthy and the research shows that mildly obese people are less likely to have problems.

In 2005, Katherine M. Flegal made a statistical analysis of national survey data and found out something amazing: Mildly overweight people have a decreased risk of dying, unlike some of the healthier people. This reasearch contradicts years of work stating thta being overweight is bad.

The bottom line, its all about someone pushing their political agenda...

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