primitives discuss poor, declining health of primitives

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021447365

Oh my.

dkf (29,312 posts)   Mon Oct 1, 2012, 04:43 PM

Study: Baby Boomers’ Health Very Poor, Getting Worse

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Baby Boomer generation’s overall health has been on a sharp decline.

Australian researchers from Adelaide’s three universities have completed the first stage of a report on the generation born between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1960s.

Obesity among baby boomers is more than double the rate of their parents at the same age, and boomers with three or more chronic conditions was 700 percent greater than the previous generation.

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“We have to do something now in terms of reducing obesity as a risk factor if we’re going to manage health costs into the future, but I think more importantly if baby boomers are going to be able to lead active and productive lives in their later years,” he told ABC.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/10/01/study-baby-boomers-health-very-poor-getting-worse/

leftstreet (20,737 posts)   Mon Oct 1, 2012, 04:46 PM

1. Baby Boomer Bashing is on Wednesdays, not Mondays

In case one's not aware of this, the vast overwhelming majority of primitives are lily-white and in the age range between 50 and 70, despite the superficial impression that they're young spoiled kids and quite diverse.

Mr.Bill (115 posts)   Mon Oct 1, 2012, 04:49 PM

3. Yeah, but let me tell you...

we've had an awful lot of fun getting ourselves in this condition.

yawnmaster (2,063 posts)   Mon Oct 1, 2012, 04:50 PM

4. Oh jeeeze...we are in our 50's and beyond, of course our health is getting worse!!

What braniac came up with that headline.
We are well over half way through our lives...
What, our health is going to keep IMPROVING until our death date, then poof, dead???

SheilaT (10,757 posts)   Mon Oct 1, 2012, 05:28 PM

10. Hmmm. Maybe that's why

I've noticed so many people my age and younger who are taking multiple prescription medications. I'm constantly horrified at how old and ill so many people in their 50's and early 60's are.

While obesity, smoking and certain other habits are often to blame, I also think that because doctors will simply prescribe a medication for whatever's wrong, and almost never look into getting the person to make changes in their lives, we've gotten to this point

^^yeah, yeah, yeah, that is just a bunch of total bullshit.

Physicians prescribe pharmaceuticals for primitives (usually paid for by the taxpayers) because the primitives demand it.

Physicians, when evaluating patients, speculate on which sort of treatment the patient is most likely to follow.

Which is not necessarily the best, or the proper, treatment; only the treatment the patient is most likely to follow.

When looking at a primitive patient, the physician quite reasonably assumes the primitive isn't motivated to lose weight or quit the bong or changing the life-style; the primitive just wants the drugs.

bemildred (63,495 posts)   Mon Oct 1, 2012, 05:42 PM

12. I understand a lot of the generation before us is already dead.

I suppose that is better, since dead people are no longer a burden to society.

Every time a primitive dies, the burden on society lightens.

[GOBUCKS]

Every time a primitive dies, the burden on society lightens.

I've always been pleased whenever we get word of another dead DUmmy (Pam, we're waiting!), but it's irritating to know they'll keep on voting.

[franksolich]

.....but it's irritating to know they'll keep on voting.

But sooner or later that too has to end.

Probably not in our lifetimes, but it'll end.

[Freeper]

“We have to do something now in terms of reducing obesity as a risk factor if we’re going to manage health costs into the future

Yeah all that death panel talk was just crazy talk.