Two things to address first, make sure your screen is level with your head. If you have to look up or downward to see the monitor, then that will cause positional pain. Either raise/drop the chair or monitor. If your chair doesn't adjust, you can raise the screen by placing a book underneath it. If you need to lower it try to pull the monitor forward from the top with both hands. Some of the monitors will let you adjust the tilt on them up or down, by pushing the top forward or back.
The other consideration is resting your mouse pointing limb, from always being extended on the chair arm. When you have your arm positioned like that for a long period, it causes pain also. Both those moves put exertion on the C4 disk. Try pulling your arm away from the mouse, when your not using it and rest it in your lap. I'm ambidextrous and had to switch sides, using my left hand to control the mouse for awhile, till my neck got better.
Of course ice packs on the neck for 10 minutes at a time and Advil or Aleve can help a lot.
Can you tell us what percentage of overweight people are in that condition due to genetics and which ones are there because of over eating? Don't tire yourself looking, the statistics don't seem to exist. However, what does exist is a an overlap between poverty, overeating, bad nutrition and obesity. Only 33% of Americans meet the suggested fruit servings per day. 27% eat the suggested vegetable servings. Inversely, 2/3rds of Americans have some sort of weight problem. That's just the nutritional aspect of things.
As far as exercise goes, 50% of Americans simply don't and 80% don't get the exercise they should. So what does that tell us? We're eating crappy food and exercising less.
Finally, the poor seem to have it worst when it comes to obesity within the American landscape.
So in short, while there is no definitive statistic we know a few things that are definitely making people fatter:
1. Bad nutrition.
2. Lack of exercise.
3. Being so uneducated/poor they can't make (for financial/economic reasons) healthier choices.
All of those things could be corrected, however the mentality in America is that any attempt at fixing the problem is a restriction of freedoms. So why should people who do the exact opposite and make the correct lifestyle choices pay more for the large numbers of people who don't?
Eating in America Still Unhealthy: CDC - US News
CDC: 80 percent of American adults don't get recommended exercise - CBS News
Relationship Between Poverty and Overweight or Obesity « Food Research & Action Center
Some of those aren't preventable.....
How can you even begin to compare those??? Tells us a lot about your intelligence..
Diabetes can be brought on by poor diet.
No, it cannot.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune disorder, which attacks and destroys the pancreas.
Type 2 diabetes is caused by a genetic disorder which interferes with the chemical action of insulin.
Neither of these conditions is ever caused by poor diet. Both of these conditions require a specialized diet, but if you do not have the underlying autoimmune or genetic disorders that cause them, then no amount of poor diet will will ever cause you to develop either condition.
What about epileptics? Or mentally retarded? Or diabetics?
I believe that a discussion on this is an exercise in futility. Companies that sell health insurance have in the past either denied policies to high risk populations, or they have charged higher premiums. Now with the ACA, any attempt at getting people to live responsibly has been shot in the foot. We will ALL shoulder the higher costs. I certainly think, though, that there should be some 'reward' for the person who practices good health maintenance, not smoking, rotting his liver with alcohol or drugs, keeping weight under control, not engaging in risky sports, etc. But I'm sure that will not occur in my lifetime.
And the poster earlier was correct, not everyone can keep their weight at an optimal level because there are so many medications which cause metabolic changes and concurrent weight gain.
People who don't use seat belts. Gay men who don't use condoms during sex. People who don't floss. People who ride on lawn tractors. Kids who run with scissors. People who have a bar of soap in their bathtubs.
Talk about an endless list of possibilities, right??
What about epileptics? Or mentally retarded? Or diabetics?
There is a 'reward' for the person who practices good health maintenance, not smoking, rotting his liver with alcohol or drugs, keeping weight under control, not engaging in risky sports, etc.
The reward is knowing you have done your best to stay healthy and perhaps you may even longer because of your healthy life style choices.
Women should pay tons more cause they're women. :2bump:
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LOL. What I learned in nursing school is that woman live longer than men. That is common knowledge. But women go to the doctor more for health maintenance services more than men do. Men tend to wait until they are sick. Woman go for that yearly pelvic and pap smear. Men don't go for a yearly PSA, but they should.
Go every year to have a finger up my ass? I'm not likely to do that once let alone every single year. lol
Quite frankly this is a disgusting thread. All it does is show the extent that people want to go in order to control other peoples lives in a way that THEY think a person should live. What the hell ever happened to "live and let live"? Or that big scary word...FREEDOM?
OK, well, I can identify with that. A few years ago a doctor gave me an antibiotic that killed out all the normal flora of my intestines. I had to have a sigmoidoscopy. I've also had a transesophageal echocardiogram. I refuse to have either again. I told a doctor I worked with that no one is going shove anything up my ass or down my throat ever again. He told me I am no fun! LOL. If I get colon cancer they can diagnose it when I double over in pain. But cancer really doesn't run in my family. And I don't have any bad habits. So I'm not very worried.
I have always hated doctors. My knee has been bothering me since I was teenager and what they said originally is that it was growing pains and it would go away, but it never did and I suspect it was caused from a hit I took during a high school football game to my knee by a huge fat kid that couldn't make a tackle if his life depended on it. I suspect its a tear of some sort, but I can't bring myself to go to the doctor for it.I doubt I will live long, but honestly old age sounds like it sucks hard, so I don't care much.
I don't disagree with your comments because we don't yet know the extent to which genetics plays a role and we don't yet know the extent to which chemicals in foods - such as steroids in chicken - impact the amount of excess fat some people pack on without "bad behaviour".
As for the poor being fatter, I don't disagree about that as well. I would point out, however, that often the foods that are best for you are the ones that cost the most - fresh fruits and vegetables, as an example, cost more than canned that are often heavily salted.
But if you follow the logic of the OP, we should charge poor people more for healthcare because their poverty promotes their lifestyle related health issues. That sounds like a winner in the logical conclusions game.
Should medically judged fat people pay higher medical costs?
Being fat is a condition of epilepsy? Of mental retardation?
On the other hand obesity is often a major contributor to the onset of Type II diabetes. There is a great deal of research that indicates major weight loss and physical activity can and does greatly lessen the affects of diabetes II to the point of reducing or obviating the need for medication while improving circulation, reducing blood pressure and cholesterol and thus reducing overall medical costs.
There is a direct correlation of lifestyle and diabetes II.
No, it cannot.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune disorder, which attacks and destroys the pancreas.
Type 2 diabetes is caused by a genetic disorder which interferes with the chemical action of insulin.
Neither of these conditions is ever caused by poor diet. Both of these conditions require a specialized diet, but if you do not have the underlying autoimmune or genetic disorders that cause them, then no amount of poor diet will will ever cause you to develop either condition.
Quite frankly this is a disgusting thread. All it does is show the extent that people want to go in order to control other peoples lives in a way that THEY think a person should live. What the hell ever happened to "live and let live"? Or that big scary word...FREEDOM?
What about epileptics? Or mentally retarded? Or diabetics?
In addition to Crue Cab's list of medical conditions, how about professional race car drivers? Professional wrestlers? Boxers? Olympic skiers?
Bunge jumpers? Parachutists? Bad drivers?
Alcoholics? People who drive motor cycles? People who get X-number of speeding tickets? Traffic accidents?
To be honest, I don't even buy the "healthy foods cost more" argument. There are three reasons. The first is that the average American now eats less at home than they did 20 years ago. In short, we have become fans of snacking. The second is that portion sizes have more than doubled in the same period as obesity rates. The third is that stores like Walmart make it incredibly affordable to buy vegetables and fruits.
Take-Out Foods, Restaurant Meals Tied to Obesity Trend - Online Medical Encyclopedia - University of Rochester Medical Center
Portion Sizes and Obesity, News & Events, NHLBI, NIH
Walmart Wild Oats: America’s largest grocer is rolling out a line of cheap organic food products.
In short, food has gotten cheaper thanks to stores like Walmart (as much as I hate to admit it). People continue to eat out regularly and more. How can it be more expensive for you to buy a few vegetables at a store and make a basic stir fry? How can it be more expensive to avoid fatty foods that cost $12 a plate then buy fruits for a week for the same prices? Hell, a run to your local farmer's market will net you about 3 weeks worth of apples for $12. So how is it more expensive to simply cook at home and avoid fatty foods? No. It really isn't.
If you follow the logic of the OP, overweight people - regardless of income - will be charged more for poor lifestyle choices that could easily be curved so the rest of us who do make healthy life choices aren't forced to pay more for them.
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