I’m surprised she became pregnant.
If a baby is successfully delivered, it’s going to be an extremely challenging upbringing for the child.
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How do you even weigh her? I’ve never seen a scale that went that high in a regular docs office
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Usually the scales for people in wheelchairs go higher and our scales go pretty high. Not sure what the cutoff is. But now I’m curious.
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I’ve got so many questions lol.
Not asking about this specific patient cause privacy and all, but just speaking in general, how does that even work? At that weight, is a C section required? Heck, at that weight, CAN you do a C section?
I also just can not fathom being that heavy and dealing with a newborn. Heck, a toddler? Every 3 year old I’ve ever met is like 50% honey badger. How the heck do you keep up with that at nearly 1/4 ton?
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Heck, a toddler? Every 3 year old I’ve ever met is like 50% honey badger. How the heck do you keep up with that at nearly 1/4 ton?
The sad reality is that a lot of families that are in this state of obesity will raise toddlers that are in a similar state
In turn, these kids DON’T run around a whole bunch.
It’s absolutely heart breaking.
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I’m not sure if they are required, but they are possible. Instead of doing them low the usually do them above the belly button. That way the incision can heal properly. I can’t speak to how they can properly care for a child. I would assume that whoever is taking care of that person at home will also be the primary care giver for the child.
Unfortunately this is frequently true, although not always.
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As a father of a 3 yo, i can vouch for the honey badger 
The mind boggle at how you actually get to 545lbs, thats nearly 250kg ppl (i think in kg). How much do you need to overeat for literally years? Biology doesnt want you to be that large.
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Funny enough, we’re discovering that you kinda have to be genetically “gifted” to get so obese. There’s an idea of a “personal fat threshold”, wherein subcutaneous fat cells can only take in SO much fat before they’re just plain full. Once they’re full, we can’t put any more fat in them. But fear not: the body has a solution! It will simply store the fat viscerally instead!
…yeah, that’s not better. But it’s how we have this whole “SOFI” thing going on of “skinny on the outside, fat on the inside”.
As far as the mechanism that’s getting us this obese: we exist in a food environment so completely foreign to our biology that it’s like a war is being waged against us. Food is designed to be hyper palatable AND completely devoid of nutrition. It’s what makes obesity really fascinating: it’s a case wherein someone is both overfat AND malnourished. Their body keep sending them hunger signals because it wants NUTRIENTS and all we provide it is ENERGY, and we have to eat SO much energy to finally get the nutrient amount it wants. And meanwhile, we keep blasting our brains with dopamine from the hyper palatable food and dulling the response, so we have to keep upping the dose to get the same high. And THEN we cultivate a gut microbiome that is crying out for this junk and can no longer deal with a chicken breast.
Sorry to use your log here to bloviate @BethB . This is a recent obsession of mine.
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No worries. I enjoy the topic and conversation. My log is always open for most any topic of discussion.
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My Aunt’s family had the “genes”. Her mom, herself and her children were obese. Her dad was thin, her husband was thin. They all ate the same thing. One of them was a big high-school football “star”,so It wasn’t lack of exercise it was something else. Sadly only one of them is alive today.
Another family here is the same. The whole damn family is obese, except the mom.
We never called it genetic, we just always said, “it runs in the family”.
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We never called it genetic, we just always said, “it runs in the family”.
One of my favorite responses of “Obesity runs in my family is” “Homie NO ONE runs in your family!”
But yeah, this fat threshold theory suddenly makes things make a LOT of sense. Those people that “eat whatever they want and NEVER get fat” most likely just have a limited fat threshold. Fatness is happening, just not visually. That said, I also think that “fast metabolism” is really just “high NEAT”, observing my own child who can literally NOT sit still and how they are basically a human sized humming bird, blitzing through food to power their never ending movement.
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Fascinating, but it makes sense. Especially the bit about fake foods. We have our share of bad food choices here in Aus but i look at some of the ingredients in the American (US) food that is creeping onto our shelves and it is wack 
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It’s a point of pride that we can help not only the decline of American health, but worldwide health as well.
America: Spreading obesity one continent at a time.
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I’d guess it’s something similar to a freight scale used in the shipping industry.
You don’t. But if you people watch Americans, you’ll notice kids are high maintenance and can be ‘needy’. A sugary snack usually shuts them up so that’s what people do. And then you end up with kids like the one posted by @T3hPwnisher.
My 4 year old always wants junk food and we always have to tell her no and deal with the crying and whining. It’s part of being a parent. It’s not easy to raise a good person because we’re all incredibly selfish.
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We have really big scales. We have beds specially made for 700+ pound patients. Our equipment is evolving with our patients.
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At my wife’s hospital all new beds have a 1000lb limit, up from 700, which was up from 500. Sad.
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In regards to the other log, I 100% get it and just CANT comment on it with a digital record lol. Still love you
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I really am sorry. I wasn’t thinking. I will be more mindful.
Really, don’t worry about it. YOU can say and comment whatever you want, you have that freedom and 100% SHOULD enjoy it. I just don’t have the same freedoms in that respect, but my own limitations should in no way impede yours, I just don’t want you to think I’m being rude when I don’t reply. It’s a matter of professional restraint, not me ignoring ya lol.
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Lol. That never even occurred to me! 
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