Shouldn't health-care professionals be good examples of healthiness?

[SeaCore]

I'm not going to write a long-ass response to a long-ass post using my phone. I'll respond in kind when I have a computer in front of me.

Yeah, it is pretty tedious. And it's easier to accidentally delete everything and not be able to cntrl+z it.

 

[Latimer]

Worst of all, my personal physician is fat. I like him a lot, he's very smart, thorough, candid and--as I've been repeatedly told--highly respected by his peers. It's disconcerting, however, that he's fat, and I feel like giving him advice on loosing weight every time I see him.
Of course I don't.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I noticed that lower level health care people in general do seem to be fatter than one would expect.

One might associate it with sedentary jobs held by people who make low wages and have less expendable income.

Contrast that with waiters. They are in a hurry, they move quickly, and they typically are more fit. Much of the lower tier health care professionals are clerks, or staff who do no heavy lifting, walk no long distances in any quick pace and spend a lot of the day sitting. And, it's a profession that has primarily been staffed with working class women who have families, so not historically the model of fitness in societies. Most moms had historically become heavier sooner due to chiclbirth weight gains.

They have been ignored as the typical in times past as the media portrayed mothers as idealized June Lockharts.

To be sure, people are getting fatter, and not just those in the USA, but there are more health care workers than there were, as the industry has burgeoned as a growth sector of the economy.

By comparison, fast food "workers" and teachers are also getting fatter, both having a significant number of employees who don't burn many calories as they work.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Farmers should be consuming the crops they grow, otherwise we should question their commitment to their livelihood.

In Europe, many farmers grow and eat their own produce in addition to their main crops that go to market. They loathe to buy stuff they can produce themselves.

Lawyers should encourage their clients to confess their crimes, as law is supposed to uphold justice, and it isn't just for a guilty man to get off without paying the penalty for the crime.

This argument is bent completely out of shape, even as an illustration of the fallacious nature of the argument presented in the OP.

A meatcutter at the local market should be eating the animals they are cutting up, else they are insincere. Their arteries or health shouldn't be a reason not to eat red meat all the time.

If they won't eat their own wares, it's probably a good idea to pass them by yourself too.

Waiters should be eating out and giving generous tips regardless of their expendable income, as they should set an example if they want us to give them tips.

They do, but they tend to go out in affordable places or at non-busy hours, in my experience.

Bartenders should be regular drinkers in their off hours. How else can we trust that they are living the values they espouse as bartenders.

Good bartenders are usually happy drinkers and have more patience with those of us who go a little too far from time to time. And that's someone I'd order a drink from.

 

[Thad1527]

I'm against bullying and "fat shaming."

People have backstories which we may never know.

Now, the smokers at your health center...you have my permission to criticize them. That's a cut-and-dried bad decision.

I definitely believe in taking charge of one's own health. You can encourage healthful practices in others - and we should!

 

[Telstra]

I get your point--My best friend who is in health care once pointed out a doctor he works with--he's a top cardiologist in NYC--he was short fat and a chain smoker

Lol,
maybe each industry should follow what they preach or disqualified from their jobs like sports men and women.
If sports men/women are fat or not good enough they are disqualified by natural selection Lol

So similar "natural selection" should be applied for all other jobs.

 

[mcbrion]

i don't know about over there
but here, fruit and vegetables are cheaper than processed food.
I'm sure over there, fruit and vegetables are cheaper too.

Nope, that is not the case a great deal of the time. Exception Award goes to....CALIFORNIA

Food in California is MUCH cheaper than the same foods in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and dquite a few other states. Why? Because California produces almost 50% of the produce of the US.
SO. If you live in Connecticut, that's not true that fruits and vegetables are cheaper than fast food. You get VOLUME with fast food. More food per buck than a fruit or vegetable.

 

[peeonme]

I'm against bullying and "fat shaming."

People have backstories which we may never know.

Now, the smokers at your health center...you have my permission to criticize them. That's a cut-and-dried bad decision.

I definitely believe in taking charge of one's own health. You can encourage healthful practices in others - and we should!

For many such things as overeating, smoking, drinking, drugs and sexual addiction are outward signs of past abuse and trauma. We don't have a clue as to what another has been through. Some make decisions without understanding the motivation behind their self destructive behavior.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I can't imagine where to begin explaining this....

 

[SeaCore]

So similar "natural selection" should be applied for all other jobs.

It already does, and weight doesn't select against them.