Can Blaming People for Being Fat Help Curb Obesity?

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terry jones of KS 4:58AM August 31, 2009

i am fat really fat since my first period it sucks doctos can't help me i love to work out b4 i was spending a lot of time in the gym runing in the parc i spent 8 years training swiming and now doctors don't allow me to train cause it's dangerous 4 my heart it's not only that i'm fat but i'm not allowed to train no diets no nothing nothing helps me. it's really hard 4 me i'm miserable with my weight i love to train but i cant i eat less than most of the people i know some times i don't eat for a week or two i am full of sickneses and i am only 23 is this a life no. i don't know if u've watched the film 200 pounds of beauty, it's comedy i cry most of the time on it and to be honest my life is milion times worse than hers. it sucks it's better to be dead than live my life i've tried to kill my self but no luck, it's not enough that my life is a desaster but most of the people laugh on that is the horor funny? i don't thik so

nikoleta 3:59AM June 08, 2009

It's just another exuse from the "FAT" hatting media,to keep on attacking overweight people.I am sick of this attacks that are so unfair.Its just an ongoing "politicly correct"witch hunt.wich has gotten out of control and it's not only hurting overweight adults in the process,but inprisoning our obese children also.

David Espitia of TX 6:03AM April 23, 2009

I am fat and I have been to docter for only two ilnesess in the last few years, and both were ear infections. I paid both docter visits completly on my own with no help from Uncle Sam or the taxpayers. Whenever I'm not working, or going to college I am volunteering to help clean up the environment and to help teach underprivaledged children in my community how to better their reading skills. I do my best to be an upstanding contributing memeber of society, and yet I still get tons of thin people who never volunteer telling me that I am lazy. Doesn't make much sense to me, but I am the type to let people do and think what they want unlike those who hate fat people for no other reason than their appearence.

Allie of FL 7:20PM July 18, 2008

I smoke, I'm fat, I am a minority, I have a dog, I don't vote, I don't have children, I am NOT divorced (Wow!), ........yes I paid a huge amount of taxes, much more than I am covered for services, I live a normal life, respect everybody, obey the laws, and so on. So please let everybody come after me: It's fair game, al the repressed people NEED somebody to pick on. They are they aggressors, not me.

Wilhelm Rifkin of NY 8:44PM July 03, 2008

I told people -who laughed at me when the nazi-nannies tried to take smoking from me-- IT'S NOT ABOUT SMOKING!--It's about slowly taking your personal rights away. They lie about science-SECOND HAND SMOKE DOES NOT KILL. Show me one death certificate stating that cause. Why do you think people still smoke? Because we laugh at the manipulation of science. Look back at all the stupid laws that have been made. And now the idiots are telling us that obese people are to blame for global warming? THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING! I am so happy with my age-54-by the time cameras are put in each dwelling I will be long gone from this planet.

Ramona Watts of CA 3:48PM May 30, 2008

Well, you can't say the Veganist Jihad didn't warn us...
Lo these ten or more years ago, when they won their little Supreme Court victory over the "evil tobacco companies", several of the leaders of the Jihad announced at a press conferernce that their next target was American food producers, and that they'd use the same combination of scare tactics, lies, bullying, junk science and forcible legislation to ram the Veganist religion down everyone's throats with a pick-axe.
My only hope is that enough actual Americans, (as opposed to brainwashed, luddite sheep), will see what they're doing this time, and continue to actively oppose them. Otherwise, we'll all be living in the world of the movie "Equilibrium" within a decade, especially if one of the Three Commies usurps the next election...

BadKarma of MO 11:20AM May 27, 2008

Health insurers, physicians, lawmakers preserve their agendas of profit and power when citizens battle one another over "morality."
Healthy people deserve better health insurance rates, and since nobody can vouch for his own continued good health, first we'll target those who made BAD choices. Like the death penalty for criminals, citizens jumped on the moral band wagon and chose to decide who lives and dies. And we like making that choice, as long as we don't call it what it is, morally deciding who needs to live and die. We're sure, we're absolutely sure that smokers are the reason health insurers are raising their rates....let 'em die. We're sure, we're absolutely sure that fat people are draining our health resources...let 'em die. And don't let 'em die quietly, plaster their names and faces and their moral deficiencies on websites, newspaper ads and lists all over the country like our FBI most wanted...because, THEY're BAD.
Fat people, smokers, engagement in dangerous sports or drive unsafe vehicles, sedentary lifestyle, those who eat too many sweets, those who eat fewer than five veggies a day, those who drink less than eight glasses of water a day, those who take supplements, those who choose high stress occupations, you choose but if you made any of these you are BAD and therefore it's okay for you to DIE. After all, society is better of without BAD, whatever form BAD takes.
I'm for it, let all us humans die, we're bad, but with one proviso: Due process. We give it even to our most notorious criminals. I want the right to face my accuser, the insurance company. I want them to prove exactly what my BADNESS has cost them over the years versus how much money they've made off me. I want the right to a fair trial with a jury of my human and flawed peers. I want to mitigate judgments against me based on my years of employment and good attendance, my years of working out at the gym, my years of NEVER making a claim to any of the monies I have paid in. I want the right to assert the affirmative defense that I lied to my insurance company about my great grandfather's heart problem out of Self defense, so that I wouldn't be robbed of benefits because of family history. I want the right to a speedy trial. I want the right to appeal. I want the right NOT to incriminate myself.
I want my MIRANDA rights. And then, if I'm convicted, I want the state to pay all my health bills until I'm executed for being BAD.
And you know that you're BAD too. You STOLE from your fellow insureds by running to the doctors for check up after check up. You CHEATED the insurance company by submitting bills for services you got in the hospital that you're not even sure you got. You LIED about how much you actually drink and you were SEEN at a vitamin supplement store self-medicating. You WILL get sick and the answer is simple, so DIE. You didn't know you were bad? Too bad, ignorance of the law is no excuse.

conoutofconsumer of NC 9:50AM May 27, 2008

". . . given that they eat more and require more transportation energy to move themselves around." Interesting observation and one that triggered my recollection of a comment made by my doctor a few years ago.
She said that about 85 percent of Medicare dollars are spent on treating terminally ill people. That was said within the context of our discussion about the trend, then and now, towards the unplanned and perpaps, unfeasible cost of maintaining these American entitlement . Whether this fact was correct or not, it always affected my thoughts about the financial sustainibility of our Medicare and Social Security systems.
The reference to obesity becoming the American norm and associating it with food scarcity and global warming seems to open another branch of the financial sustainibility issue in a way that goes far beyon paying for people that will die. While dying is natural and the probability of death predictable, obesity is self inflicted.
Besides the study's references to food and energy costs, these seem to be many other consequences. The disproportionate uses and public costs of what is rapidly developing as scarce public resources: Medicare and Medicaid health treatment, perscription drugs paid by the public and the social security cost for placing obese people on temporary and permanent disability at their request, taking advantage of what Roosevelt's Congress never intended.
Fat people do eat a disproportinate amount of food and do consume more energy costs and well as the high cost of specialized transportation vehicles paid by Medicare and Medicaid. Why should the public pay for a motorized cart to transportation obese people around a grocery store, pay for the cost of their food through food stamps, then have a local public program (funded by the Federal transportation department) provide special vehicles to transport them between the store and their home and then pay for another person to carry their food into their living unit? There are even some programs that deliver food and some that provide caretakers to cook the food. What public benefits does the public get in return? Certainly nothing even close to the cost of this maniing this insane, special public service system.
So perhaps it is time that the anti-smoker lobby take up a cause that also wrecks havoc on our sustainibility in a way far more that the public cost of treating smokers 20 years ago. Maybe we should start by denying the expenditure of public monies to treat diabetes? Many, many people spend their own money for recreation and exercise programs throughout the country every day so they can prevent become fat, obese and contracting diabetes as well as other diseases. It is clearly obvious that we can no longer afford to pay for this Public Fat Parade, we have to pay-off the cost of killing people in Iraq for the next 20 or 30 years, and they are not even Americans.

Carlos Rodriguez of FL 11:49AM May 26, 2008

Everyone, even skinny people, have problems in their lives to handle. How do all these hysterical nuts have the time and ego to join the media driven mob to condemn others in the name of National health? It strikes me as a bit fascist.
When a friend of mine was cheering on the hysterical mob against smokers, I looked at her fat ass and said "you know, fatties are next." Suddenly the witch hunt wasn't so much fun! There will be another "unhealthy" group for the Nationalists/socialists to attack after the fatties. Elitist led mob think and hate is just too appealing to those who reject or do not understand America's individual freedom.
How about everybody just mind their own business and do the best they can like we do in the US. If you want to be fat; go at it. If you want to smoke, whatever turns you on! If you want to cheat on your wife, break up your family, and end up in poverty, screw yourself homeless. It is none of my business; you will find out the consequences! All kinds of behaviors that make our lives enjoyable are bad or risky for our health. I would rather live happy than in a police sate where the mob dictates who I am and what I may and may not do in my life.
There are natural consequences to everything we choose to do in life. Free people get to choose and free people permit others to choose for themselves because they want personal freedom as well. Learn it , or you are going to be sorry when they come after you next.

sara of TX 12:06PM May 24, 2008