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Friend, that is. One of my roommates, Michele, died today of a heart attack. At age 40.
She started finally getting medical attention for her heart troubles last year. Before that, the doctors just said "You're fat. Lose weight. Go on a diet and start walking."
Never mind that she had a bum leg, and couldn't exercise. Never mind that she only ate ~ 1000 calories a day - she couldn't hold any more than that. Her metabolism was so badly f*cked up by the chemical stew that the state funded quacks had fed her throughout her life (she'd been in and out of "the system" since early childhood) that she ate nearly nothing and kept gaining weight, and getting weaker.
She was on disability. The quacks stereotyped her as "drug seeking" because she knew the list of drugs that she was allergic to.
So chalk up another victim of "compassionate conservatism" - starting with Reagan.
She started finally getting medical attention for her heart troubles last year. Before that, the doctors just said "You're fat. Lose weight. Go on a diet and start walking."
Never mind that she had a bum leg, and couldn't exercise. Never mind that she only ate ~ 1000 calories a day - she couldn't hold any more than that. Her metabolism was so badly f*cked up by the chemical stew that the state funded quacks had fed her throughout her life (she'd been in and out of "the system" since early childhood) that she ate nearly nothing and kept gaining weight, and getting weaker.
She was on disability. The quacks stereotyped her as "drug seeking" because she knew the list of drugs that she was allergic to.
So chalk up another victim of "compassionate conservatism" - starting with Reagan.
