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Originally Posted by senior citizen
Half of the people we knew who received the double knee replacements or single knee replacement were SKINNY. The rest were average weight to slightly overweight.......not morbidly obese.
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Those who compile statistics don't go by someone's group of friends (or people you knew) who had knee problems, which may be 4, 5, or 6 people. Studies usually look for patterns among large numbers of people.
The skinny people you mentioned above may be the runners or joggers who continually put stress on their joints over long periods of time, not to mention they may have had poor diets consisting of energy bars etc..
You mentioned they were not morbidly obese: Why did you insert the word "morbidly"? Statistics show that excess weight, in general, puts extra pressure on knee joints and tends to wear them out faster. But excess weight isn't always necessary to wear out knee joints.
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Many were avid snow skiiers in their "prime".
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Doesn't matter if they were in their prime or not. Too much pressure on the joints.
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Not sure where you originate, but those in the northern climates seem to have an awful lot of severe knee pain in the winter months during cold weather.
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I'm from the north-east and I never heard of that.
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So often the very athletic end up with knee damage and subsequent surgery. Again, the healthiest of the healthy.
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Is that suppose to prove that it doesn't pay to try to be healthy? It doesn't prove that at all. It just proves that some athletes put too much wear 'n' tear on their knees.
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p.s. He is the healthiest eater out there. Not everything is because of diet.
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Show me where I said that everything is because of diet. Did you read my opening post?