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[Nightowlz]

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@sidsmom wrote:

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@Nightowlz wrote:

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@KingstonsMom wrote:

@bikerbabe 

That's what the reports I've read have said too, plus by the time he called for help 4 days later, he was in total organ failure and placed in a medically induced coma.

According to his Drs. and family the fatal heart attack was a total surprise as he had no known heart issues.

I'm not sure what "crisis" the OP is alluding to.

A terrible, sad accident.

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@KingstonsMom 

I'm sure @sidsmom is alluding to the fact that he was overweight so of course he was having health issues?

@sidsmom  Thinks we should all be eating a plant diet.

Some people just have heart issues it's not always caused from being over weight. Plenty of normal weight people have dropped dead from heart attack.

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It’s a crisis too many young people are dying.

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@sidsmom 

But it's their life & their business how they want to eat or how much they weigh.

I think for starters they should rethink about the garbage they allow to be put in our food supply.

[Tyak]

@sidsmom 

What would you like to see done to classify it as a crisis?  Should the government dictate what foods we should be allowed to eat?  Is that what you want?

[sidsmom]

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@Tyak wrote:

@sidsmom 

What would you like to see done to classify it as a crisis?  Should the government dictate what foods we should be allowed to eat?  Is that what you want?

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Just having people realize that being overweight, obese,

morbidly obese causes a multitude of health & skeletal issues.

Nope....not suggesting certain foods.

Just recognize there’s an issue too many young people are dying 

WAY too soon. 

I just don’t understand why people refuse to recognize we have

a problem. If you had a solution, wouldn’t you want to implement it 

to keep people alive?

[QueenDanceALot]

Oh, for cripes sakes, people DO know that obseity is a large risk factor for a number of diseases.

It's not a secret.  Some people just decide to deny it.

Looks as though Chris March had some other risk factors as well.

[Icegoddess]

You do realize that is an old picture.  Don't know what he looked like at the time of his death.  I was under the impression that he was living in a facility since he never regained full function after his fall.  So, his diet might have been quite limited there.  Devastating falls can happen to anyone at any time.  A trip down the stairs could kill anybody at any age.  

[Trinity11]

When someone passes, for myself, there is nothing more rude and obnoxious than turn a eulogy into a public service announcement. Promoting propaganda on eating habits to fit one’s agenda especially when someone just died? Then with the implication they somehow brought it on themselves? Simply appalling...and in very poor taste.

[QueenDanceALot]

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@Icegoddess wrote:

You do realize that is an old picture.  Don't know what he looked like at the time of his death.  I was under the impression that he was living in a facility since he never regained full function after his fall.  So, his diet might have been quite limited there.  Devastating falls can happen to anyone at any time.  A trip down the stairs could kill anybody at any age.  

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@Icegoddess 

If I read correctly, a heart attack killed him, not a fall.

But he seemed to already be in a fragile physical AND mental state when he had the heart attack.

Again, if I read the information correctly.

[Icegoddess]

@QueenDanceALot He had a devastating fall in, I believe it was 2017.  Apparently nobody found him and he woke up 4 days later and managed to call 911.  He has had major health issues since.  He never regained full mobility and was living in some sort of facility because of it.  The heart attack was what killed him, but my response had to do with people blaming his diet for his obesity and subsequent heart attack. I have no idea if he was obese at the time of his death.  The picture posted was from years ago.

Also , someone asked how he had a devastating fall at such a young age, hence my comment about falls.

[Tyak]

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@sidsmom wrote:

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@Tyak wrote:

@sidsmom 

What would you like to see done to classify it as a crisis?  Should the government dictate what foods we should be allowed to eat?  Is that what you want?

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Just having people realize that being overweight, obese,

morbidly obese causes a multitude of health & skeletal issues.

Nope....not suggesting certain foods.

Just recognize there’s an issue too many young people are dying 

WAY too soon. 

I just don’t understand why people refuse to recognize we have

a problem. If you had a solution, wouldn’t you want to implement it 

to keep people alive?

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People do realize that being overweight is bad for them but they want that food more than they want to be thin and I have found out through many diets during my lifetime that a person has to want to be thin for themselves, not because someone told them that they need to lose weight.  I've dropped many pounds and put many pounds on in my 74 years and the only time it stuck was when I wanted to be thin more than I wanted that piece of cake or whatever the food of the moment was.  

We all know what the solution is but people apparently aren't that interested for themselves because they think that the massive heart attack isn't going to happen to them.  It's going to happen to the next guy.

[QueenDanceALot]

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@Icegoddess wrote:

@QueenDanceALot He had a devastating fall in, I believe it was 2017.  Apparently nobody found him and he woke up 4 days later and managed to call 911.  He has had major health issues since.  He never regained full mobility and was living in some sort of facility because of it.  The heart attack was what killed him, but my response had to do with people blaming his diet for his obesity and subsequent heart attack. I have no idea if he was obese at the time of his death.  The picture posted was from years ago.

Also , someone asked how he had a devastating fall at such a young age, hence my comment about falls.

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@Icegoddess 

Yes, I read all of this.

Sounds like he's a a really rough go of it since that fall.

I certainly can't say definitively what caused his heart attack, and no one here can either. 

All I know is that obesity is a definite risk factor for heart attack (and there are other risk factors, as well).   Which risk factors caused his?  I don't know.  No one here knows.