Wednesday 15 August 2012

Should we treat bansturbation as a medical condition?

Bob E spotted an acute case of the syndrome in America's Science Daily:

A sedentary lifestyle is a common cause of obesity, and excessive body weight and fat in turn are considered catalysts for diabetes, high blood pressure, joint damage and other serious health problems. But what if lack of exercise itself were treated as a medical condition?

..."I would argue that physical inactivity is the root cause of many of the common problems that we have," Dr. Joyner says. "If we were to medicalize it, we could then develop a way, just like we've done for addiction, cigarettes and other things, to give people treatments, and lifelong treatments, that focus on behavioral modifications and physical activity. And then we can take public health measures, like we did for smoking, drunken driving and other things, to limit physical inactivity and promote physical activity."

4 comments:

Kj said...

See you at the 7 o'clock mandatory gym session on Revolution Square comrade.

A K Haart said...

Yes - as a variant of OCD.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Kj, I might make the session at 7 o'clock in the evening, but I will not attend the one at 7 o'clock in the bloody morning.

AKH, I always wonder, what happens if a woman with obsessive cleaning disorder gets married to a man with obsessive hoarding disorder. Would they cancel each other out and end up living in a fairly normal house?

Bayard said...

Mark, come on, you know they would fight.