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I have bad genes - you had the brilliance to chose better parents than I did, but thanks for gloating, that's awesome. You should hang with the cystic fibrosis people and laugh at them.
But in this day and age, I fail to see how all the mall rhinos at 5'4" 245lbs, regardless of their internal medical history are in 'better' health than I am just because they've been going to the gym for ten years, trudge on the treadmill for 30 minutes 6 days a week and seem to show zero improvement. If all this 'let's hand out ribbons to the people who show up-ism' was so wonderful don't you think that people would, generally speaking be in better shape? Or have we come to the point where, if you show up to exercise and you're still 60lbs overweight and you eat poison, well that's cool, because, you meant well and you feel good about yourself. I would hate to see PC weight-ism turn into a general acceptance of poor diet, flab and excess in the name of so called 'health' foisted on us by the body-type nazis.
By the by - thanks for supporting the joint replacement and orthopedic surgery injury, because all you marathoners, that's what you're doing.
