This is the same doctor who called Trump (obese and with high cholesterol) the healthiest man ever? The one Trump tried to reward by giving him a cabinet position...that guy?
Are you an M.D.? If not, on what basis do you declare anyone obese with high cholesterol?
I don’t have to be an MD.
Trump puts on a few pounds, enters obese range: medical report
Let me tell you a little story. I have been termed obese for most of my life, even when I weighed slightly over 200 pounds. I ballooned up to almost 280 pounds until one of my friends told me about the weight gain caused by a certain medication I was taking and she had taken before. I went back down to less than 200 pounds over the next year.
In late 2018, my weight began jumping 3-4 pounds each day topping out in the 260s before it got so bad I could not longer walk without being in agony. Threw my butt in the hospital and diagnosed me with Stage 4 liver failure and my weigh gain was from fluid buildup. Draining fluid from my abdomen and intense diuretics via IV, I walk out of the hospital 4 days later with weight in the 220s. I lost 40 pounds in 4 days.
In January 2019, 2 months later, I was evaluated for a liver transplant. My weight had dropped to the 180s and I looked like a walking corpse. The doctors told me to start eating again, as much as I could within my diet guidelines, because I would not survive a transplant at that weight. I gained back to about 210 and the doctors were ecstatic. A weight of 210 pounds is obese.
Let me tell you about how doctors screw with your system. I take a high blood pressure medication even though my blood pressure is lower than average. I take a medication for gastric reflux, even though I have never had it. I take aspirin for a blood thinner and the only result is that it makes me bruise and bleed all over the place. I take a statin for cholesterol even though my cholesterol has never been above the low end of the scale. I take a medication to control ammonia buildup in my blood and my insurance pays over $3000 a month for it.
I don't trust some doctors as far as I can throw them. Here it is 21 months after being diagnosed and I am still not on the transplant list! Why? I am not sick enough!