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Originally Posted by caryesings
Interesting. I have personally wondered about the "healthy" arguments about normal vs. overweight. I sing with a group of women. In the 45-75 age group the last few years we've had 3 with breast cancer (all normal weight), 1 heart attack (normal wt), 1 stroke (overweight). We have an number of women with joint issues including knee replacements and shoulder surgeries, all of those women have been overweight/obese. Only 1 person has developed adult-onset diabetes, she's probably the high side of normal weight.
So in my personal observation except for the joint issues, haven't really seen a correlation. On the other hand I had observed there were almost no obese folks in the nursing home where my mother lived, so appears the obese do die at earlier age?
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I'm overweight and I had cancer.
Cancer happens to everyone, regardless of their weight. Some people are genetically disposed to it, others have a genetic abnomality (like me) and just get it. A gene mutates in utero and then it turns into cancer. My weight was most likely due to my cancer, not the other way around (since it was thyroid cancer).
Also, heart disease is also genetic. Sometimes it has nothing to do with weight. Sometimes these things just happen, and sometimes it has nothing to do with weight.
but the general rule is, being overweight can contribute to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. It just means that you're more likely to get it, not that you WILL get it. It's like if you're a smoker vs being a nonsmoker: Smokers are more likely to get lung cancer, but nonsmokers can get it too.