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RUSH: You know, folks, for the longest time I have avoided all of the conventional wisdom that the left puts out — and it is the left — on fat, obese health, exercise, all of that. All of it. I routinely dismiss it. I loved going to the doctor and seeing my cholesterol normal or just even a little bit below normal and the doctor getting mad. <\/p>\n

“Well, your cholesterol and your triglycerides ought to be sky-high!” <\/p>\n

“Why?” <\/p>\n

“Well, because you\u2019re overweight.<\/p>\n

“But they\u2019re not, are they?”<\/p>\n

“No.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Well, what\u2019s wrong with me?” <\/p>\n

“Uh, you have a tendency to high cholesterol and we might want to put on you medication.”<\/p>\n

“Why? It isn\u2019t elevated.” <\/p>\n

“Well, because look at you! It\u2019s gonna be — and if it isn\u2019t, your blood sugar is gonna be someday. You\u2019re cruising for something wrong with you because you\u2019re overweight. You need to start exercising and start losing weight,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just more conventional wisdom. So apparently there is a health report out there which now says that obese people can be metabolically healthy, and the media doesn\u2019t like it. They were talking about it this morning on CNN on their morning show with Chris Cuomo, Kate Bolduan, and Matt Lauer. And they were talking about a new report about the healthy obese. Here\u2019s just a little montage for the flavor.<\/p>\n

CUOMO: The words “healthy” and “obese” can\u2019t go together, righted? Wrong.<\/p>\n

BOLDUAN: A third of obese adults are actually considered healthy.<\/p>\n

LAUER: Can someone be both significantly obese and metabolically healthy? Researchers say it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No! Really? It\u2019s not possible. They don\u2019t believe it. Then they went to who they think is their foremost authority on this, and that would be Al Roker. They asked Al Roker to weigh in on whether or not you can be healthy obese, and this what Al Roker said…<\/p>\n

ROKER: When I was at my heaviest, my cholesterol level was low, my blood pressure was good. I mean, I still probably would have died. I was a ticking time bomb. Technically, I was okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Technically, I was okay.” No, not “technically.” If your cholesterol was below normal and your blood pressure was okay, and you happened to be fat, you were still metabolically healthy. But he loses all this weight with whatever the surgery, whatever, and he starts pooping his pants in the White House <\/a>and starts bragging about it. That\u2019s the thing I couldn\u2019t get. Look, I can understand losing control of the bowels if you\u2019re sick or you\u2019ve eaten something, but to brag about it and laugh about it?<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s where I lost it. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just me. It\u2019s the new culture; that\u2019s cool. It makes a good tweet, I guess. But Al says, ” I was a ticking time bomb.” Al, we\u2019re all ticking time bombs. There isn\u2019t anybody yet who has survived death. Do you know of anybody? We\u2019re all ticking time bombs. Anyway, it\u2019s just not a big deal, folks. I just love destroying conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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