[SnuffaBolshevik]

I guess I’d better bolt down those cheese steak subs while I still can!

[musicman]

[Secret Agent Man]

I’m overweight and I never go to the doctor. I exercise three times a week. I had an MRI (I paid for) a few years ago and my arteries are clean.

And do you think the people that smoke in order to stay thin - because we equate “thin” with “healthy” - are in any better shape? I don’t wake up coughing black crap out of my lungs every morning. My mom did when she was smoking hard.

And will they highlight the studies that have recently come out showing that people that have a little extra weight on them can handle sickness better? And also do better in car crashes - less damage to internal organs in the abdominal and chest areas?

I am sure they won’t.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

So will they now have “Fat” and “Nonfat” sections in restaurants and public transportation...or just an all out ban?

[org.whodat]

[netmilsmom]

I’m in trouble.

[elkfersupper]

Tried to tell ya’.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Told ya so. I saw this coming 20 years ago.

And you can bet they have another straw man waiting in the wings for when they have worn this one out. SOP for these fascists.

[robertwalker62]

I used to think Americans had a problem with obesity, but then I visited Benidorm, a favorite English holiday spot on the Spanish Costa Brava....

We have NOTHING on them. When one’s diet begins with breakfast consisting of bakes beans, eggs, biscuits and gravy that excessively caloric by my Southern standards, and doesn’t improve from there, well, let’s just say the result isn’t the most pleasing to the eye.

By the end of the (curtailed) trip, not only was I proud and eager to state that I was from the US, and NOT England, but also eager to [try to] speak any language but English, regardless of how little I knew/bad my accent was.

[Freedom56v2]

For years Rush has been saying that after smokers, they were coming for the overweight...he was right :(

[Hodar]

Just thinking ....

My insurance will pay for my heart attack, my diabetes and other weight induced illnesses and diseases.

Insurance will NOT pay for stomach bands, weight loss programs, exercise programs, Doctor sponsored weight loss clinics or anything to help the obese lose weight.

So, what is Obama gonna do?

[sinanju]

Oh dear, yes, I have been hearing the knives being whetted. All these carefully timed reports on how much obesity is costing us.

Hmmm, even I have to admit I would really love to hold an auto-da-fe on those misbegotten superobese characters seen on the Discovery Channel shows. Lord only knows how much they cost us.

But then, that’s the reasoning, it’s all for the greater good. Health care for the healthy, the elderly, chronically ill, profoundly disabled are too expensive. Once government is in charge of health care, every sick person is a liability to be eliminated. Everybody who doesn’t lead a healthy lifestyle will not be entitled to care.

Of course, gays with AIDS will be the magical exemption.

[MarkL]

Is that the international symbol for "No Fat Chicks?"

Just askin...

Mark

[Liberty Valance]

[MrsEmmaPeel]

As an experiment a friend of mine sat inside his truck in a Wal-Mart parking lot and took stats on the number of people that were entering the store: he was particularly interested in the group designated as morbidly obese. His was a random sample lasting 30 minutes. The following week on the same day at the same time, he waited in the parking lot of the largest health food store in the area and wanted to garner stats on the same class of obese people.

His conclusion? -- Not truly scientific, as the people he was observing never knew they were being observed, and no one stood on the scales for him -- but the morbidly obese group is pretty obvious. He found that on this day he estimated 28% were morbidly obese in Wal-Mart; 45% obese; 10% overweight. The health food store was quite different, during the same time scale 0% were obese, and approx. 23% were simply overweight.

[HerrBlucher]

I’m a fat smoker. Nanny stater Fascists can KMA. Eff them all!

[airborne]

Wasn’t there a time when obesity was a disability? And we were being mean and hateful for even mentioning it?

I think it was back when a bunch of liberals (Oprah, Rosie) were fat.

I guess it’s OK now, since there’s tax money to be made.

[ApplegateRanch]

If you do not show up in der park on time for mornink calisthenics, vee vill drag you out of bed, and MAKE you exercise! Und, vee vill cut your ration of state approved food for vun veek! No more fat, flab, undt vheezink!

[Polynikes]

What is ironic is Roman gladiators were fat by todays standards. They were not the lean Decimus Maximus played by Russell Crowe. They were referred to as “hordearii” (barley men). Their diet was essentially high carbohydrate vegetarian (barley and vegetables) so as to bulk up for arena combat.
Quote from article
“A fat cushion protects you from cut wounds and shields nerves and blood vessels in a fight.” Not only would a lean gladiator have been dead meat, he would have made for a bad show. Surface wounds “look more spectacular,”says Grossschmidt. “If I get wounded but just in the fatty layer, I can fight on,”

The Gladiator Diet
http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.html

[Right Wing Assault]

They'll have to wait until Ted dies.