First, the good news: I’ve been officially diagnosed! With the very thing I had already suspected, at that. I’m not happy that I’ll have to live with fibromyalgia for the rest of my life, but it’s great to finally know what’s wrong. Also, I can work on getting better now – which is not to say that I hadn’t already attempted to do that before, but I kept getting worse instead for some reason.
Since my new medication makes me very tired and kills my ability to articulate myself sometimes, I just want to say this one thing:
Sometimes I wish there was a way to make all of humanity permanently thin at once (or at least over the course of no more than a few years), so that we could finally observe whether disease rates would really drop as dramatically as people seem to think these days – or not. My personal guess is that nothing, or nearly nothing would change, and that formerly fat people would still have the same risks as before … but I’m tired of all this guesswork. I … excuse me, articulation. Ahem.
January 20, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Or alternatively, make everybody fat and see if disease rates go up dramatically
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My guess is that weight gain or loss is more likely to be a symptom of a disease than a cause.
April 11, 2009 at 1:11 pm
“Sometimes I wish there was a way to make all of humanity permanently thin at once (or at least over the course of no more than a few years), so that we could finally observe whether disease rates would really drop as dramatically as people seem to think these days – or not.”
That would be really, really awesome.