to quote the hated Planned Parenthood:
Keep your laws off of my body
Eggs are a healthy food which have been ingested by mammals for tens of millions of years.
What about the people who maintain a “healthy” weight through the use of cigarettes or heroin?
Mass. has mandatory healthcare (Romneycare) whereby you are fined if you don’t have health insurance. And they just announced that all restaurants must tell customers how many calories are in each dish — it’s all for the War Against Obesity.
This is exactly what I have argued would/will happen with ‘universal’ health care to anyone who will listen. People think it will be some utopia where all their medical bills will just magically disappear. they can go to whatever doctor whenever they want for FREE! Wrong! Government pays the bill- government will make the rules and run your life. This includes forced medication, vaccination, diet control, smoking cessation, contraception and anything and everything else you can think of, all in the name of keeping you healthy and thus keeping down costs. The nightmare is almost too horrible to contemplate.
"3 Days of the Condor" line from Robert Redford's shack-up girl:
"Those photographs aren't like me, but I took them -- so they are like me."
Nanny state regulations and universal healthcare thus feed a vicious cycle of increasing government control over individuals. Both undermine individual responsibility and habituate citizens to ever-worsening erosions of their individual rights. Both promote dependence on government. Both undermine the virtues of independence and rationality. Both jeopardize the very foundations of a free society.
Everyone needs to read this article and preach it loud, all the time.
I am the same weight as college thirty years ago and my numbers are perfect, but if I ate the government approved diet, I’d gain a hundred pounds and die in less than a year.
They can have my bacon and eggs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
With all due respect to the risks of a nanny state, quite real, this is Japan we’re talking about. Japan has a very heavy societal pressure component. Individualism is simply not valued like it is here. There is a Japanese saying: “The nail that sticks up gets pounded down.”
There may be risks as you say, but this is an apples to oranges argument. We are the most individualistic nation in the world... for now, anyway.
Got news for you — the same thing is happening now with companies. HR people regularly make notations on applications as to the applicant’s appearance.
Fat people boost insurance costs. Companies avoid them at all costs.
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines”
“Imagine a country where the government regularly checks the waistlines of citizens over age 40. Anyone deemed too fat would be required to undergo diet counseling. Those who fail to lose sufficient weight could face further “reeducation” and their communities subject to stiff fines”
According to the BMI indexhttp://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ anyone over a 25 is overweight......I am a 25.6...have 7% body fat, run 36 miles a week, 4000 pushups a week, have a VERY healthy diet, yet I would be considered overweight....
you can bet that the figures for determining exactly who is overweight will be determined a reed thin,vegan government lackey .....