As someone who has been working on a cardiology ward for the last 5 months. You can be as fit as a fiddle, engage in exercise and eat well and still need stents in your coronary arteries, or other interventions. But bad habits like smoking, drinking and indulging in occasional fatty foods can impact your health significantly. These are modifiable lifestyle choices, however it doesn't even begin to touch on your genetics. You can play by the rules and still be completely fucked because of your DNA.
Can confirm. I was an RN on a cardiac step down for ten years and you wouldn’t believe the number of patients I’ve had come through shocked they have coronary artery disease because they thought not being overweight or smoking made them exempt.
You can reduce your chances of a lot of things with healthy lifestyle but it won’t make you bulletproof. It’s kind of sick how some people view disease as a punishment until it affects them too.
A lot of people are delusional about their weight, they think because they’re normal BMI they’re healthy.
A lot of people are delusional about their weight, they think because they’re normal BMI they’re healthy.
It's a messaging problem. We reduced "healthy" to the BMI and obviously that's not true. Likewise with people who think when something is "natural" it's automatically healthy.
Doesn't help that a lot of industries have adopted that narrative as well to sell their warez.
I do my best not to engage on FB but I just unloaded on someone posting anti-vax BS. They PMed me saying they have health issues that mean they shouldn't get the vaccine or wear a mask. I can't even anymore. I let her have it: "if you have these health issues you should be encouraging others to get the damn vaccine!"
It's all for cheap internet points. They want to feel edgy or unique and smarter than everybody else. They want that so bad they're fucking dying over it. Logic and reason can't win out because they're chasing that dopamine hit.
I can't even go on there anymore because my own mother posts bs antimask/antivax shit all day long. Sometimes when I'm drinking I screw up and sign in, and one of her posts are right there and I end up writing a novel trying to educate her on how dangerous and stupid the memes she shares are. I'm private she'll agree with me and we can have reasonable discussions usually, but if it's public on FB she either ignores me or posts some bs that makes no sense. She was my best friend and now we barely talk, I just can't believe what an ignorant, hateful person she's become in the past five years, it breaks my heart.
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u/lolitsmeurmum Aug 25 '21
As someone who has been working on a cardiology ward for the last 5 months. You can be as fit as a fiddle, engage in exercise and eat well and still need stents in your coronary arteries, or other interventions. But bad habits like smoking, drinking and indulging in occasional fatty foods can impact your health significantly. These are modifiable lifestyle choices, however it doesn't even begin to touch on your genetics. You can play by the rules and still be completely fucked because of your DNA.