HERE COME THE FAT POLICE

Fiedor Report On the News #287 ^ | 9-15-02 | Doug Fiedor

[Madame Dufarge]

Thanks for reposting that; because I've never read it.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, huh?

[Madame Dufarge]

Even the liberal concerns, like Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, are targets.

[metesky]

What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?

[xJones]

You know, a long time ago I read a post on FR stating that lawyers would be suing for fat people next. I didn't comment, I considered that an absolute heavy tin-foil post. Boy, was I wrong.

[Tired of Taxes]

the BMI is just the old chart in a formula. I'm 6 feet tall, weigh 228, and can pick up an engine block (stripped, no main caps) and put it on the stand (8 cylinder, not a 4-banger). The last time I weighed in at 180 lbs, I had been underfed (grad school) for eight months and spent one week of that time with no food at all. Muscle weighs more than fat.

The article saying that a 6' tall man is considered obese at 200 lbs. caught my attention, too. My husband is 6', 200 lbs. (though maybe down to 195 now) and he is definitely not obese. When he weighed 170 lbs. a few years ago, he looked too thin. Now, he's built thicker, but with weightlifting, running, etc. he's still in good shape. Those weight charts are ridiculous sometimes.

[Eala]

Even the liberal concerns, like Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, are targets.

Ben & Jerry's!? Those dioxin purveyors?

("The study shows that the level of dioxin in a sample serving of one variety of Ben & Jerry's brand ice cream is about 2,200 times greater than the level of dioxin allowed in wastewater discharged into San Francisco Bay from the Tosco oil refinery." study)

[Great Dane]

You know, a long time ago I read a post on FR stating that lawyers would be suing for fat people next. I didn't comment, I considered that an absolute heavy tin-foil post. Boy, was I wrong.

Good thing we are not gloaters...... we're not going to say, "We told you so." :-}

[xJones]

Good thing we are not gloaters...... we're not going to say, "We told you so." :-}

Well, don't try and sue me, I never said anything! :)

[Thumper1960]

You know, when a doctor can explain why a vegan gets cancer, a man goes into the hospital for an operation and has the wrong body part removed, when a perfectly healthy fetus is sucked down a drain and why it's estimated that doctors kill 98,000 patients per year due to negligence and/or ineptitude....then I'll decide to listen to his preaching on smoking.

Why is it they call their job a "practice"? If you're still "practicing", you're not worth $75 for 10 minutes of your office time.

[Thumper1960]

True. No one believed it then. You'll never believe what's next.

[Great Dane]

#48...... How could anyone possibly know all levels of governments would become so dependent on sin taxes.

[Great Dane]

#49......... Mind if I borrow this, it will be my next reply to my good doctor. ??

[meyer]

BTW, the BMI is just the old chart in a formula. I'm 6 feet tall, weigh 228, and can pick up an engine block (stripped, no main caps) and put it on the stand (8 cylinder, not a 4-banger). The last time I weighed in at 180 lbs, I had been underfed (grad school) for eight months and spent one week of that time with no food at all. Muscle weighs more than fat. The index should be a factor of total body fat as a percentage, not just body weight.

I'm glad you mentioned this. What's also important is that they changed the rules a couple of years ago. What used to be acceptable BMI is now marginal or even "obese". My BMI is borderline obese under the new rules as well, despite my having a slightly better than average body-fat %. I'm not Arnold but I stay in shape.

[shaggy eel]

,,, first they sue the tobacco companies for giving them lung cancer; then the fast food places for making them fat; guess I can sue Budweiser for all the ugly women I've slept with.

[Uncle Meat]

But you can thank Budweiser for giving you the courage to do it.

[Thumper1960]

Be my guest!

[Just another Joe]

Bubba says "Just let him say something to me. I'm ready."

I agree with Bubba.
My doctor always asks me if I've quit, I always reply that I'll quit when she can guarantee that I'll live to be 118 if I do.
That ends the converation.

[glorygirl]

And for inebriating the women as well!

[meyer]

Yet the lawyers wouldn't do it if there wasn't money to be made. Is tort reform the answer, or are there broader issues that cannot be addressed through mere legislation?

Eliminate punative damages. If its bad enough to be punished, then pass a law through the legislative process. Judicial legislation for the enrichment of lawyers must be stopped. Its destroying the very freedoms that make this country great.

[glorygirl]

"In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you."

For want of a nail, a shoe was lost...