I am writing a persuasive speech on why you should eat bananas. I have found some interesting facts however am asking many people for some input. All comments would be appreciated!

I added HNO3 to Aqueous KBr, why did the solution turn yellowish?

a. the potassium in the compound is oxidizedbu the water KO2
b. Metallic potassium (K) and gaseous chlorine (Cl2) are former.
c. It is dissolved to form a solution containing potassium ions (K+) and choloride ions (Cl-).

Lately my lower part of the body is getting paralyzed,it last around 24 hours…I have chrons disease but is not active.
My parents have diabetis,I only have 32 years old.
Two years ago I have the same thing,the blood test came up that my potassium was real low,Since then I have a diet rich of potassium(banana,brocolis,potatoe),but this time Im getting paralyzed(lower part of my body)really often and Im scared.
Please can sombody have any Idea of what is going on with me?

FACTS:
1) A bulimic is one who throws up some/all of the food they eat (at least 2 times a week for six weeks to be classified as "bulimic").
2) Food is absorbed in the intestines, not in the stomach, so purging does result in less intake of calories.
3) Less calories in means less weight gained. If enough of the food is purged weight loss occurs.
4) Super obesity is almost always caused by over consumption of calories (for whatever reason).
5) Super morbidly obese people have failed at most if not all of the conventional weight loss techniques in the past.
6) Bulimia does have some negative side effects, almost entirely consisting of quite curable and preventable symptoms: worn tooth enamel, dehydration, low potassium and acid reflux.
7) Bulimia does not have a statistically relevant mortality factor unless one is underweight (You likely have never heard this, but if you look at the real research done by actual scientists this is the case).
Super morbid obesity has an extremely high mortality rate.
9) Gastric bypass is very dangerous in the super morbidly obese, and has a statistically high mortality rate.
10) Super morbid obesity is usually fatal and very seldom cured.

It seems to me that bulimia would be a much healthier alternative to super morbid obesity. I have very thoroughly researched the bulimia symptoms. Many websites confuse anorexia symptoms with bulimia symptoms, so please don’t post anorexia / underweight symptoms and say I forgot those. These people are NOT underweight.

I ask this because I have two people who are very obese and very close to me. One is super morbidly obese and is dying. She underwent gastric bypass, had serious complications, gained back all the weight and more and is unable to walk now. She’ll be dead in a matter of months. The other had a BMI of 45 (halfway between morbidly obese and super morbidly obese) became bulimic on purpose, and is now much lighter, healthier and more active. She is in extremely good health, and is happy.

Because of this, I am angry that the first person that is close to me was not advised to become bulimic. I watch TLC. I see these super morbidly obese people DIE from gastric bypass, and I see very pretty socially acceptable bulimics happily RUNNING around everywhere.

If bulimia can be used to cure super morbid obesity why isn’t it? It is working for one person I am very close to, so I know it can work.

Again, this is about bulimia for the obese, not for the underweight. Just like fasting or gastric bypass this would kill an underweight even normal sized person, but would save a fat one. So sorry if you know someone who starved themselves to death from bulimia, but I am only referring to the severely overweight.
Bulimics MAY binge eat. But when they purge (vomit) the calories the calories from the binge are not taken into the body.

Obese people (especially the super morbidly) often binge eat also. In fact, they often intake over 10,000 calories a day.

Modern science often uses one disease to cure another. Most medicines have side effects. You use them because the medicine is safer than the disease. In this case bulimia is safer than having a BMI over 50. What facts do I have messed up?
But they ARE NOT going to eat healthy and excercise. They are going to die. They wouldn’t have a massive BMI if they could do that. They can’t. Whatever the reason, they can’t. Is bulimia not a better option than certain death?
mcdbb - It would cause them to lose weight, which would let them live longer. The symptoms you mention are all caused by acid reflux. Antacids cure all of them. Super morbidly obesity more often causes depression and more extreme depression than bulimia.
mcdbb - also bulimia is "the act of purging food at least 2 times a week for at least 6 weeks". It isn’t a state of mental health, it is an act. It may be associated with mental health, but the word is defined as above. And I am referring to purging by vomiting. If you prefer, substitute purging by vomiting for every instance I use the word bulimia.
The symptoms of bulimia are still so much lighter than that of super morbid obesity. Swollen cheeks? Guess what, super morbid obesity causes that to! Oh, and it causes acid reflux. It also causes heart attacks, and the inability to breath, and diabetes.

I’m not saying bulimia is ideal, but if these people COULD use it to remove obesity from their lives, shouldn’t they?

Yes, it would be better if they ate right and exercised. But they don’t! They won’t! Ain’t a gonna happen. No way, no how. No point in wasting time on it. I believe it is because they are hungry all the time and they can’t. I have to eat when I’m starving too, so I don’t blame em. They feel extreme hunger all the time so they eat all the time. I don’t think that should have to be a death sentence.
Thanks Rockford. Do they use this on the super morbidly obese? Is is successful? Obesity is one of the quickest growing diseases in America today, and the Super morbidly obese category is the most dangerous and it is going up percentage wise the most quickly also.
I think you guys are missing that the super morbidly obese are in imminant danger. You are worried about people getting a rash from the life vests being handed out to people who are drowning.
Many of these people must lose weight in months or die. They have already tried for years and failed to diet and exercise.
I didn’t say prevent. I said people who are super morbidly obese. Already there. Dying. You don’t get super morbidly obese without trying some exercise and diets along the way.
Actually, shoving your face with junk food and not purging it would cure anorexia, and be much healthier, since anorexia has a high level of mortality. I don’t think doctors are out in force chastising recovering anorexics for making poor food choices. I think they are happy they are eating.
Once you get to be super morbidly obese, basically your weight is your health. Because your weight is crushing you like a beached whale. I listed bulimia’s affects, they are so much less than the effects of super morbid obesity.

I have 2 obese people close to me, only the bulimic is going to be alive next year. I have said nothing of this to either of them, and they don’t know each other. The one that is dying is family.

Ok so here is what happened… I had to sing at a wedding Saturday and I wanted to look good for it and I have struggled with bulimia in the past and I had been recovering and doing well but I started purging again like a week before the wedding. (yes i know its bad and i am trying to recover) On Saturday I hadn’t eaten anything I just had a couple of glasses of gingerale right before I sang. Then at the wedding reception I had 3 glasses of wine on an empty stomach (I’m on Lorazepam and I’m not supposed to drink any alcohol with it but I forgot.)

Anyways, at the reception I was dancing and then I sat back down at the table and started feeling really dizzy. I had to go to the bathroom and I was so dizzy I couldnt walk on my own and my bf said he could tell something was wrong and he walked me out and when I came out of the bathroom I was even more dizzy and he had me sit down and he kept asking what was wrong and I kept saying I’m just really dizzy.. then I think he left, not sure what happened then, next thing I remember I was lying face down on the floor puking and my bf called 911 and I don’t remember much after that.. I only remember throwing up the one time but my bf tells me I kept throwing up and at one point he said I was throwing up so much and breathing so erratically he wasn’t sure if I was going to keep breathing.

Anyways, we got to the emergency room, I was throwing up for a while and shaking and breathing really hard and fast. I think they said I was hypervenalating. My blood pressure was low, i dont remember exactly what i was, my potassium was 2.7 which they tell me was extremely low and they say I was dehydrated. They gave me something in an iv to stop the vomiting and they gave me tons of potassium then after awhile they sent me home.

I called my doctor for an appointment tho I’m not exactly sure what happened. My bf thinks it a reaction to mixing the alcohol and the lorazepam or he thinks it is alcohol poisoning. I thought that too but after talking to my mom who is a nurse, she says that dehydration and alcohol should have made my potassium level go up, and she says that what happened Saturday night was because of the purging and that drinking the alcohol might have saved my life. Just wondering, cause Idk what happened or why … do you think that is what caused it? Has anything like this ever happened to anyone?
really, nobody has an ideas?

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