So – what is so bad about being obese? How about high blood pressure? High blood pressure that can become so dangerous and debilitating to your body that it damages your kidneys? Take a look and listen to Grizzwald Chapman and what he’s battling now.
Chapman admitted to Dr. Oz that he ignored his high blood pressure and even refused to take medication for it for more than a decade. “Well, in the beginning I didn't take the blood pressure medicine, because listening to my friends, my friends told me, you know, if you start taking the medicines, you'll be on the medicine for the rest of your life. … I just kind of brushed it off and, you know, continued on my, my normal everyday life,” Chapman said on the show.
I’m honestly not quite sure how to feel? Should I feel sorry for him? Or is it a hard lesson learned?
Start taking care of yourselves people. Listen to your bodies. They’re trying to tell you something.
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Grizzwald Chapman is probably not a bad guy, but he did what a lot of men do with their health and he did the head-in-the-sand thing. By simply ignoring his hypertension and the ensuing renal damage, he cooked his goose. Add to that, he's an African-American looking for a kidney donation-and as hard as donor organs are to come by, among African Americans there is an even smaller pool of organ donors.
If nothing else, Mr. Chapman has become the poster child/cautionary tale for what happens if you choose to ignore your hypertension and not watch your weight and not take your medications. It also puts a human face on the high levels of hypertension in the African-American community.
Right you are my friend. Right you are.
'A cautionary tale and poster-child' – yet another nugget of truth!
Right you are my friend. Right you are.
'A cautionary tale and poster-child' – yet another nugget of truth!