Comments on: Losing Weight A Good Idea Before Surgery http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2007/11/19/losing-weight-a-good-idea-before-surgery/ Research and discussion of the Colorado health insurance industry and the healthcare crisis in America. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:19:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: GingerB http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2007/11/19/losing-weight-a-good-idea-before-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-7906 GingerB Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:40:58 +0000 http://www.insuranceshoppers.net/blog1/2007/11/19/losing-weight-a-good-idea-before-surgery/#comment-7906 I have to agree with you, although I can hear the outcry of discrimination. I watched my mother recover from two hip replacement surgeries over the years and it requires quite a lot of rehab afterwards. Some of this includes using ones upper body to pull oneself up to get going. It seems that pulling 180 pounds up instead of 210 would make that task easier. By my reckoning it would take a reduction of about 400-600 calories a day for a 210# person to get to #180. That's a coke and a candy bar or brownie. It still leaves the person taking in more than 2,000 calories day, so it's not a starvation situation. I have to agree with you, although I can hear the outcry of discrimination.

I watched my mother recover from two hip replacement surgeries over the years and it requires quite a lot of rehab afterwards.

Some of this includes using ones upper body to pull oneself up to get going. It seems that pulling 180 pounds up instead of 210 would make that task easier.

By my reckoning it would take a reduction of about 400-600 calories a day for a 210# person to get to #180. That’s a coke and a candy bar or brownie. It still leaves the person taking in more than 2,000 calories day, so it’s not a starvation situation.

]]> By: green » Losing Weight A Good Idea Before Surgery http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2007/11/19/losing-weight-a-good-idea-before-surgery/comment-page-1/#comment-7869 green » Losing Weight A Good Idea Before Surgery Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:09:32 +0000 http://www.insuranceshoppers.net/blog1/2007/11/19/losing-weight-a-good-idea-before-surgery/#comment-7869 [...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt Francis Kinley-Manton has arthritic hips that have confined her to a wheelchair for two years. She wanted hip replacement surgery, but her doctor told her that she needed to lose 30 pounds before he would do the surgery. She lives in the UK, and the British National Health Service would have paid for the operation had she lost weight. But instead of losing the weight (she weighed 210 pounds at the time, and was asked to get to 180), she took out a second mortgage on her house and paid privately [...] [...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt Francis Kinley-Manton has arthritic hips that have confined her to a wheelchair for two years. She wanted hip replacement surgery, but her doctor told her that she needed to lose 30 pounds before he would do the surgery. She lives in the UK, and the British National Health Service would have paid for the operation had she lost weight. But instead of losing the weight (she weighed 210 pounds at the time, and was asked to get to 180), she took out a second mortgage on her house and paid privately [...]

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