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I mean, when is it time to go to the doctor?

Obesity is not just an American phenomenon, but we do have our fair share of fat people. And while I'm not for allowing people to sue McDonald's, it does strike me as a form of death more certain than smoking cigarettes.

Being really obese is deadly. So, while you're chuckling to yourself about these fat Americans, see if you can figure out a reasonable way to address the problem that doesn't involve taxing the poor or giving a lot of business to plaintiff's attorneys.

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Driver and passenger side Airbags

From the same company, seat cushions. (just to be fair, we have a fat man in this pic)
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Big fat titties and a fat guy on a moped. This thread is destined for greatness.

How about placing a surcharge on unhealthy food and using it to subsidize the price of healthy foods and gym memberships.

My Eyes!!!!

Big fat titties and a fat guy on a moped. This thread is destined for greatness.

How about placing a surcharge on unhealthy food and using it to subsidize the price of healthy foods and gym memberships. And encouraging people to walk, instead of drive - note how those to were both on wheels? So that'swhy you all have HUGE cars.:p

How about placing a surcharge on unhealthy food and using it to subsidize the price of healthy foods and gym memberships.
Argh, government interference! Instead we should be allowed to point at fat people and chant "fatty fat fat fat". And allow companies to discriminate against fat people by having doors too narrow for them to fit through. Just kidding of course - where would we be without fat people like Father Christmas (Santa Claus)?

for about 2 hours I saw a girl ohne TV , who has a weight of 262 kilos. The need to be brought to the hospital, and the doctors realize with a crane...

incredible ....:rolleyes:

for about 2 hours I saw a girl ohne TV , who has a weight of 262 kilos. The need to be brought to the hospital, and the doctors realize with a crane...

incredible ....:rolleyes:
That is... just sad! :rolleyes:

How about placing a surcharge on unhealthy food and using it to subsidize the price of healthy foods and gym memberships.You are evil! I don't think the government should be trying to enforce an eating pattern. People will run into other problems if they eat unhealthily. Also, eating alone is not the only cause. I weight 115 lbs./52kgs. on a good day, inspite of my ability to eat an 6 patty cheeseburger (plus fries) as a light dinner. Yet I have friends who don't eat nearly as much, and eat healthier, and weigh over 200 lbs./90kgs. (and it's not muscle) even though they get out as often or more often than I do.

You are evil! I don't think the government should be trying to enforce an eating pattern. People will run into other problems if they eat unhealthily. Also, eating alone is not the only cause. I weight 115 lbs./52kgs. on a good day, inspite of my ability to eat an 6 patty cheeseburger (plus fries) as a light dinner. Yet I have friends who don't eat nearly as much, and eat healthier, and weigh over 200 lbs./90kgs. (and it's not muscle) even though they get out as often or more often than I do.
You are one of us lucky ones with a fast metabolism. We tend to eat more then everyone else but do not gain a pound. This doesn't always help though. As I am finding out when you work out and try to put on muscle mass with out much fat to turn into muscle it takes a hell of a lot longer.

You are evil! Thanks! I don't think the government should be trying to enforce an eating pattern. People will run into other problems if they eat unhealthily. Also, eating alone is not the only cause. I weight 115 lbs./52kgs. on a good day, inspite of my ability to eat an 6 patty cheeseburger (plus fries) as a light dinner. Yet I have friends who don't eat nearly as much, and eat healthier, and weigh over 200 lbs./90kgs. (and it's not muscle) even though they get out as often or more often than I do.
Government wouldn't enforce an eating pattern, just encourage a healthy one. I've heard that alot of poor people are overweight because unhealthy food is more readily available to them and healthy food is too expensive or inconvenient. This removes the price of healthy food as an obstacle to good health and encourages convenience food manufacturers to produce healthier products.

I find this thread extraordinary: not one libertarian saying that the lardarses should either eat less and exercise more or stop whining...

I somehow refuse to believe that the first pic wasn't photoshoped...

There's no recipe to reduce obesity in a society. The problem here is availabiliy. Food is available in abundance, and the lower the quality, the cheaper it is. Humans are programmed by evolution to eat, and to eat more than they would absolutely need. Plus, our taste buds react to fat and/or sweet food especially positive, as in nature, this would be the nutrition to keep us going longest. You could say that our own bodies are fighting against us.
The people who once would have been the survivers, the fit ones, the ones who keep going because their body makes the most of the food they can get, are now the people who suffer from obesity and the ensuing health problems... cruel irony

You could always make walking in america more friendly to the people living there, decrease fat in foods (it can be done, all these ready meals, take salt out too). incourage exercise adn helathy eating alot more, the japanese have 2 hours of PE a day at their schools, look at them! (that is 6 days a week btw) and they often continue a similar work out pattern into adult life adn even old age. Stop letting companies put adictive things into foods, e.g. small traces of nicotene in burgers.

The proM 3 step plan to ending obeasity in your town:

step 1) Introduce packs of man eating lions into every state.
step 2) Run from the lions when you are out and about (the slow-pokes will get caught unfortunately).
step 3) The combination of exercise and lion-related fatalities should have a dramatic effect upon your statistics.

The proM 3 step plan to ending obeasity in your town:

step 1) Introduce packs of man eating lions into every state.
step 2) Run from the lions when you are out and about (the slow-pokes will get caught unfortunately).
step 3) The combination of exercise and lion-related fatalities should have a dramatic effect upon your statistics.

Yeah, but then what are you going to do about the fat lions suffering from high cholesterol for eating too many fat people?

Yeah, but then what are you going to do about the fat lions suffering from high cholesterol for eating too many fat people?

That's the beauty, come the winter they'll freeze to death.

Yeah, but then what are you going to do about the fat lions suffering from high cholesterol for eating too many fat people?
Let them die. Nature has a way of dealing with these kinds of things. :D

how bout we just leave people alone to live life as they choose? its not a restaurants fault that anyone is fat. they just offer food that people want to eat.

yeah extreme obesity is deadly. so what? its not like a fat person doesnt know s/he is fat or that s/he thinks there are no health consequences. it might be nice to encourage people to live a more healthy lifestyle (and to prosecute those who take advantage of desperate people by selling them useless diet pills) but otherwise people should be able to make their own choices in life.