Is being obese more dangerous for your health than smoking or drinking? discuss?

Answer 1

Actually, that depends on your luck. Every person has his or her own vulnerable points. Some have livers just waiting to quit, some have Lung cancer in their genes just waiting for something to trigger it, and some have heart problems. If you're unlucky, your particular vice might be the one your body can't stand. If you are lucky, you can be a chain smoker who doesn't even wheeze.

Of course all of that is for moderate cases. If you take it to the extremes, all three kill you equally well.

Answer 2

They are all dangerous. It is hard to say which is the more dangerous.

Obesity is usually long term and the weight is hard to get off. However, sometimes an obese person can be fairly active and eat healthy enough to be a fairly healthy person.

Smoking always causes damage, so in that respect maybe smoking is worse than obesity. Hard to stop too of course.

The dangerous effects from drinking can be more immediate. Get into a car drunk and your life (or someone else's) could be over. Long term drinking is bad for your health but the most dangerous is the effects of bad decisions while drunk.

I think the most dangerous would be the one you have no intention of doing anything about.

Answer 3

I don't think it is more dangerous, I think it is as dangerous and causes different problems. Plus, some people are considered obese when measured by the Body Mass Index, who are actually very healthy simply because they carry more muscle then fat and are "heavier" due to the fact that muscle weighs more then fat.

Carrying weight around your middle is exceptionally dangerous and could be more dangerous then smoking or drinking however...

Answer 4

obesity is the overindulgence of eating. so if going by that measure you are comparing overeaters, chain smokers (as opposed to the social or casual smoker) and the raging alcoholic.

each has their own unique ways of speeding up the death process. all of the above, done in excess, will all yield various terminal diseases that will kill you. so simply picking one as the most dangerous doesn't really matter. the drinking will take longer usually than the other two. smoking is the only one whose effects cannot be reversed. quitting drinking and overeating can reduce the damage and get you back to a normal mode as if you had never done them. smoking will simply taiint your body and leave it there forever.

Answer 5

Let's see: Smoking puts you at a much higher risk for lung cancer, drinking in moderation is actually good for you but alcoholism puts you at higher risk for cirrhosis, but obesity puts you at a much greater risk for heart disease, heart attack, adult-onset diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and a host of organ cancers (not to mention the strain it puts on your back and joints). Smoking is definitely not good for you, and neither is excessive drinking, but being obese puts you in the high risk category for a whole bunch of maladies, most of which can be and are fatal. So I guess you could say that obesity, in a way, is more dangerous for your health than smoking or drinking.

Answer 6

They are all bad. I used to smoke 30 cigs a day, I was obese, I only had few glasses of wine on a Friday.
I gave up smoking. But it wasn't until I lost 63lbs 4years later that i felt the benefit. I think being overweight is a horrible burden on the body.

Answer 7

I am slightly obese and i am in good health so i suppose it depends on how obese you are even though i hate being fat not because i worried about my health but because i hate all the fat bits and i want to find a boyfriend and most men like skinny women unless they large or ugly themselves!!

Answer 8

Being obese that is thing you could change it and no problem but smoking and drinking leave problems stay very long time

Answer 9

i think the government made people fat and smokers just so they could charge you xtra money when you need medical help. i think both are dangerous but in my view drinking is the worst of all when you smoke or are a large person you take only your life when your a drunk you could take more than your life i.e drink drivers how many lives do they take a year

Answer 10

food addiction is more dangerous than nicotine addiction, in that food is required, and nicotine is not. So, you have to CONTROL your food intake, where with smoking, you just quit. Food isn't looked at as taboo, like smoking is, and it is much easier to hide. Eating disorders are almost encouraged in young women who are constantly bombarded with artificial images of beauty. Yes, I would definitely have to say food (not just obesity, but ALL food related illness)