The surprising reason why being overweight isn't healthy

This is it - THE surprising reason being fat is not healthy.

It's shocking, but it's true: Being a woman who's more than 20 pounds overweight may actually hike your risk of getting poor medical treatment. In fact, weighing too much can have surprising -- and devastating -- health repercussions beyond the usual diabetes and heart-health concerns you've heard about for years.
Recent studies have found, if you are an overweight woman you:

• 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

What's going on here? Fat discrimination is part of the problem. A recent Yale study suggested that weight bias can start when a woman is as little as 13 pounds over her highest healthy weight.

Recall that Yale is the same place that brings you David Katz, MD (see here, too.) and Kelly Brownell, Ph.D, Fat.E.

Actually, what is most likely going on here is that these women are fatsos and paying the price for that and nothing else.

Fat people are at a higher risk for illnesses and should pay higher insurance premiums just as we expect people who are at higher risk of getting into motor vehicle accidents to pay higher premiums.

Fat people apparently need different drug dosages since they do not respond to the same dosages of some medications that worked for years on intended-size humans.

Fat people are more likely to have sick children, from nutritional child abuse, than responsible parents. This is reason enough not to treat them until they shed the pounds. But, it is more likely that good, responsible fertility docs will turn fat people away suggesting they lose weight since being fat can result in infertility and weight loss may prevent needless sick care, procedures and drugs - all of which have their own set of complications. It is, in essence, good patient care to try the conservative cure, before the extreme remedy.

Fat people are less likely to have some illnesses diagnosed since they are fat. Conditions, like certain cancers, are initially found by palpation (use of the examining hands). It is technically tougher to examine a fat person than an intended-size human. Then if you want to treat them with meds, the doses used on intended-size humans may not work.

No, the real problem is almost certainly not discrimination.

The real problems are that you are too damn fat...

...and that irresponsible media outlets, like the pinheads at CNN, are fueling the flames with crap content they bought from the morons at Health.com.

F**K both of them. And the idiots at Yale, too.