Being Overweight Hinders Your ability to Good Medical Treatment? Really?!
According to an article I read in Health Magazine, our country is and has been becoming very negative towards obesity. Fat Discrimination?! Are you kidding me? Nope, it is true! A recent Yale study suggested that weight bias can start when a woman is as little as 13 pounds over her highest healthy weight. "Our culture has enormous negativity toward overweight people, and doctors aren't immune," says Harvard Medical School professor Jerome Groopman, MD, author of "How Doctors Think." "If doctors have negative feelings toward patients, they're more dismissive, they're less patient, and it can cloud their judgment, making them prone to diagnostic errors." (Health Magazine) So according to the article some of the hardships obese women and men may find when looking for healthcare are:
- May have a harder time getting health insurance or have to pay higher premiums
- Are at higher risk of being misdiagnosed or receiving inaccurate dosages of drugs
- Are less likely to find a fertility doctor who will help you get pregnant
- Are less likely to have cancer detected early and get effective treatment for it
- Asthma
- Knee & Ankle problems
- Body fat can obscure illnesses like heart disease and different types of cancer
- Even a routine pelvic exam can be tricky, especially if you've had children. "The vaginal walls become lax and collapse into the middle, obscuring the cervix," Dr. King says.
Think that’s bad enough? What about all those machines intended to diagnose you? Larger patients can not fit on them: CT, MRI and X-Ray machines. How are you supposed to figure out what is wrong with you?
Now is the time to get on a program to get that weight off and get healthy. Don’t let your life continue down this path. Get help now. Start by taking AloeControl to help you control your portions. Decrease the amount of calories you intake. Use the AloeBoost to give you energy to get out and exercise. Just a walk outside, 25 minutes on the treadmill anything to keep you moving and burning calories. This is your chance to make a change.






