Comments on: God’s Not Going To Lose Your Weight For You

By: Atheist Bites Theist! « Gimme Back My God!

Atheist Bites Theist! « Gimme Back My God! — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:50:31 +0000

[...] I believe I already posted about another possible way to view God’s relationship to his universe here, and wrote about it on this blog too (though I don’t fault you for having missed it. There’s a lot to keep up with.) [...]

By: Mriana

Mriana — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:06:46 +0000

ACK! No edit button. I meant RAI

By: Mriana

Mriana — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:05:26 +0000

Yes, that is it.. BTW, 5 years ago, she had Breast Cancer. According to my great grandmother, shocked by the news when it was Dx, there has never been a case of Breast Cancer in the family before. Just goes to show, we either didn’t know enough back then about MAI and it lead to breast cancer, or environmental factors or something triggered a dorment gene. Whatever the case, I now have to watch for Graves Disease AND breast cancer. Luckily my mother is a Cancer Survivor for 5 years now.

By: Professor Chaos

Professor Chaos — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:46:34 +0000

Precisely, Mriana. Which is why I said “after treatment.” The radiation of which you speak is actually RAI, or radioactive iodine. I opted for surgery because I was trying to have children at the time.

By: Mriana

Mriana — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:15:27 +0000

My mother had Grave’s Disease in the 70s. She put on a lot of weight too, but after they had her drink radiation (I kid you not) most of her thyroid was dead and they put her on thyroxin to replace the hormone it produced. She lost most of the weight after that too. Sorry, there was no divine providence there. Just medical science.

By: Professor Chaos

Professor Chaos — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:22:12 +0000

You’re probably right, Mike, thanks for the heads up.

By: Mike C

Mike C — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:19:42 +0000

Actually I know some folks that go to Pastor Dawkin’s church, I should just ask them…

By: Mike C

Mike C — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:17:27 +0000

“hypothyroidism”

Yeah, that’s what my mom has. Sounds like that’s what Dawkins had too. I notice that in the article he never actually says “Graves Disease” the article writer is the one who mentions that term. I’m in the Beacon News’ distribution area, and out here we call it the “Be Confused” because they’re always getting stuff like this wrong. I’m guessing that Pastor Dawkins knows what disease he has. My money is on the reporter getting it wrong. That whole paper is staffed by a bunch of rookies just out of journalism school anyway – like I said, these kind of mistakes are a regular occurrence over there.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:13:08 +0000

My bullshit filter is a little more sensitive when dealing with theists claiming divine intervention. But upon further review of this article, it just doesn’t make sense.

Okay, thanks for that info. It didn’t make sense to me either. I have borderline hyperthyroidism myself, and as I understood it Graves disease is an extreme form of HYPER-thyroidism, not HYPO.

So Graves would make it impossible for him to gain weight, not impossible to lose it. Something’s wrong somewhere – I don’t know if it’s intentional misleading, or just confusion about the medical terminology or what.

By: Professor Chaos

Professor Chaos — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:01:45 +0000

What Graves’ does is affects the thyroid gland, which regulates your body’s metabolism. Many women (and men) suffer from thyroid problems, most commonly an overactive thyroid, known as “hypothyroidism.”

But Graves causes the reverse – hyerthyroidism. Basically, the metabolism of your body doesn’t stop. To this day my body aches from head to toe because after metabolizing all of the food I would take in, my body was still looking for more – and aimed at muscle tissue.

My bullshit filter is a little more sensitive when dealing with theists claiming divine intervention. But upon further review of this article, it just doesn’t make sense.