Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating.I suppose these poor, abused people want horse weighing equipment installed at the hospital to prevent their humiliation, since Rio hospitals only have standard tomography equipment for people weighing up to 120-130 kg(about 286 pounds). Tomographs used on horses are sturdier and more spacious than common devices.
"When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey Club, which is the only place in Rio where they have the appropriate equipment," a spokeswoman for the Rio state health secretariat said on Wednesday.
"The obese patients already suffer from a lot of prejudice and having to be treated where animals are is not helping their self-esteem."But they don't seem to mind waddling around in public with gobs and rolls of fat jouncing around, and they don't seem to concern themselves with the fact they they need to use handicap parking spaces and handicap motorized wheel chairs at places like Wal-Mart because they are just to obese to walk more than fifty feet.
No, it's not in their DNA, or whatever they use as an excuse. They just eat too much and exercise too little. That's what they should be embarassed about, not the weigh-in equipment.
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Excuse me, but there are medical conditions and drugs that cause extreme obesity. They aren't common, but they do in fact exist. These issues are becoming more common as corporate fat cats use our envirnment as a sewer.
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