Fat people should be denied health care.

he looks like a GIANT disposed of condom in the river..

 

Being slim can be good for you.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_chile_mine_collapse

See what I mean?

Excerpt:

"COPIAPO, Chile – Put on a show. Play cards. Sing. Get exercise. And whatever you do, don't get too fat to squeeze through the escape tunnel.

Chilean officials are offering lots of advice to help 33 miners trapped underground keep their health and sanity as they wait to be rescued. One thing they're not sharing with the men is their estimate that it could take four months to drill them out of an emergency shelter nearly half a mile below the surface."

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Data about personal habits such as smoking and obesity. What's important about these factors is that they are controllable and avoidable.

http://www.regence.com/industry/what-drives-up-health-care-costs.jsp


excerpt:

2. Personal Habits—Our individual choices increase the cost of coverage for everyone

• Tobacco and second-hand smoke kill 450,000 people in the U.S. annually and sicken millions, costing $96 billion in health care and $97 billion in lost productivity.7
• Obesity and complications (heart disease, diabetes, cancer) cost an estimated $117 billion a year, and drove 27 percent of the per-capita health spending growth from 1987 to 2001.8
• Chronic diseases—often preventable—take 75 cents of each health care dollar.9

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everyone is going to have their own view of what is beautiful and what is not. you can't change people's opinions. all you can do is be happy with yourself. if you spend you life trying to get others approval you will be miserable. moral of the story, who gives a fuck!!!!
it's just like anything else. you can't please everyone.

 

Of course obesity is a strain on socialized health care. Hypertension, adult onset diabetes, gall stones, heart disease, copd, strokes, hyperlipidemia, infertility, osteoarthritis, decubitus ulcers and the list goes on and on

While in hospital an obese person requires special lifts, special beds and additional health care staff to lift and turn the obese patient because they are unable to move themselves. Special beds to accomodate the obese can run hundreds dollars a day. Then there is the long term and short term disability for the hospital staff that have injured themselves caring for the obese. Some diagnostic testing is impossible to do with normal sized equipment. I have personally had to transport a patient to an animal research facility for patients to have MRI and CT scans in equipment built for livestock such as horses and cattle. I have witnessed paramedics having to perform CPR with their feet as they could not reach an obese patients chest with their arms. No doubt the patient came into emergency with some type of obesity related health problem.

Occasionally obesity is caused by glandular problems but more often than not obesity is caused by hand to mouth disease.

Sorry to be so blunt but I have no sympathy for morbidly obese over eaters. Reducing ones weight is not as difficult as people think. Changing dietary habits, making healthy food choices, avoiding prepared and fast foods, cutting out soft drinks and drinking plain water without the sugar or artificial sweeteners, (which are toxic) all contribute to a healthy lifestyle and before you know it the pounds come off. Get off the couch, park in the far end of the parking lot, use the stairs instead of escalator or elevator and before you know it, fat be gone. Been there done that!

 

airplane companies love people that are forced to buy two seats.

 

He didn't just mean obese people!!!

 

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxjXAWXex0g

 

Teletubbies and Barney & Friends influenced an entire generation of kids



Hotwater

 

Play cards? Like 52 card pickup? I don't think playing cards is going to keep people from being so fat they can't squeeze through the escape tunnel.

 

What about suicide bombers?

 

Unless the game is strip poker which might be an incentive to stay thin


hotwater

 

What about The Grimace of McDonalds?

One might say that he was the epitome of fat and stupid Americans.

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I forgot about the Grimace

Kinda looks like a stupidier version of patrick from spongebob squarepants - If that's possible




Hotwater

 

The Grimace used to steal milkshakes also. Then McDonald's changed his character and was was made a good thing, although still fat and stupid.

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when did all this pressure to be thin come about?? look at Marylin Monroe, she wasnt exactly todays idea of thin but everyone thought she was gorgeous.
i have also had my fair share of "eating disorders"
i used to not eat anything all day, binge at dinner, purge it back up and the excercise for an hour everyday.
i hate all this pressure to be stick thin, it stole several years of my life,
i think people need to be proud of their bodies the way they are naturally.

 

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how fat are you

 

No reason the U.S. can't have a war on obesity. They've had one for everything else (illiteracy, poverty, drugs, drunk driving, terrorism).

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And it's all working out so well