I don't really know what is being done today (other than the attempted ban on large soda in NYC), but I'm strongly opposed to regulations like this........I don't feel it's governments job to dictate what we can and can't eat. I'd likely review what the programs are like in health classes in schools, and make sure that a good part of the curriculum covers that so kids know how to eat healthy.
Yeah the bans on unhealthy food will never work, mostly because, where do you stop? Ban fast food? What defines fast food? Steaks are unhealthy, are we going to ban steaks? Beer? Of course not. Same thing for higher taxes on unhealthy food, because well, anything can be made to be unhealthy, and anything in excess volume can be unhealthy. Maybe regulate how fast food chains advertise? Like the government did with cigarettes? Place fat and sugar content in large bold letters on the front of the package. Something needs to happen, and although I hate the government intruding on our daily lives, I feel as if something will have to be done at the government level to really fix this. People are just too dumb and lazy nowadays. And don't say my neighbor being fat does not affect me, because it does affect all of our healthcare costs.
People that drink too much alcohol affect all of our healthcare costs along with all of our insurance costs.
( I would have continued with this thought in the other post but I had to stop and chase a cat ) Obese people aren't killing innocent people on the roads. Why the need to "solve" the obesity epidemic?
Consider this if one person consumes 1 12oz soda twice a day that is the equivalent of a person ingesting a 25 lb bag of sugar a year. If you are this person drop the sodas totally from your daily ritual of consumption and you will loose 5 pounds within a week or two. Education is the key. That's why when I see obese people I have very little pity for them..just like doing drugs it's a choice to get that freaking big. How the 63 stone teenager who had to be cut from her home in £100,000 rescue gorged on junk food served up by her mum Britain's fattest teenager Georgia Davis, 19, had 'settled night' in hospital It took the 30-strong team almost eight hours to get her to an ambulance Friends leave messages of support and say she was 'stressed' by the ordeal Rescuers built a bridge to carry her and had a crane ready if it was needed A 63-stone girl who had to be rescued from her own home has been fed a diet of junk food and fizzy drinks by her mother, it emerged last night. Georgia Davis, 19, needed urgent care on Thursday but had to wait eight hours as walls were knocked down before she could be carried from her home into an ambulance. The operation to cut into her home cost emergency workers an estimated £100,000. She is due to remain in hospital over the weekend while doctors continue to test her for medical complaints including diabetes, kidney disease, spinal problems and respiratory failure. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...me-hadnt-outdoors-6-months.html#ixzz1x1P1B8hB
Those are just the people that died. How many lived and required health care? How much do you think that health care cost? How many deaths are fat people responsible for? Why is solving the "fat problem" more important than solving the alcohol problem?
Because it is the #1 killer among Americans right now. Go to an elementary school and look at all the obese kids. It's sad. And drunk driving is against the law. Being fat, as of right now, is not.
Considering obesity is linked to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, I would say a lot.
How many people did obesity kill in 2009? How many of those people were "collateral damage"? A fat person is killing themselves, a drunk driver can kill my family.
Those diseases aren't contagious so why would I care? I worry more about preventing irresponsible people killing my family than I worry about preventing irresponsible people killing themselves.
Sure sign of obese people is stretch pants on sale. Once while hunting I was walking up a small hill I was huffing and puffing. Later that day I got on the scale and weighed myself I was at a whopping 250lb. I went on a diet cooked my own food got my weight down to a easy going weight of 210lbs. Now at 190lb...i feel great and single women ogle the bod as a desert item. And at nearly 50 years of age that's all the incentive a older married man needs. Plus fewer trips to the hospital doesn't hurt either.
So now it's the schools job to teach the kids what to eat, what exactly are parents supposed to do? When are we going to start holding parents responsible for their kids? Obese people raise my healthcare cost, IMO we should take the stance companies take now, if you smoke you do not get healthcare. If your BMI is too high then you do not get healthcare. Right now obese people are not paying the price for their lifestyle choices, we all are. Make them start paying a price for being obese only then you will see a change.
