Meet the Ideal.
Posted on 09/23/2002 8:20:34 AM PDT by Asmodeus
(Albany-AP, September 21, 2002) — Low fat New Yorkers might be healthier for the state budget. This week, the governor signed the Obesity Prevention Act into law. It asks the Health Department to find ways to help New Yorkers get healthier, reduce obesity and cut the cost to the state.
Officials say two out of every ten New Yorkers, more than three million people, are obese. It's the second leading cause of preventable death after smoking, and causes illnesses from diabetes to some cancers.
The American Obesity Association says the cost of obesity to public health systems across the nation is $100 billion a year.
Fifteen other states have passed legislation on everything from childhood obesity to health awareness campaigns.
The state Health Department is expected to report its findings next June. Then legislators will put together a plan to help New Yorkers deal with their expanding waist lines.
I say let's sue fat people. If they're using that much of a PUBLIC resource by their irresponsible behavior, they should be the ones ponying up.
Really. Two teenagers suing McD/Wendys/BK/KFC for their obesity? What were their parents doing to control the kids' diets?
And they said this would and could never happen...... we smokers knew better.
A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and -- one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency -- bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
'There, comrades! That's how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again. I'm thirty-nine and I've had four children. Now look.' She bent over again. 'You see my knees aren't bent. You can all do it if you want to,' she added as she straightened herself up. 'Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our boys on the Malabar front! And the sailors in the Floating Fortresses! Just think what they have to put up with. Now try again. That's better, comrade, that's much better,' she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.
- "1984", Chapter 3
Or, you could use diet and exercise to keep yourself fit and healthy, all the while realizing that in a free country, what other people eat is none of your damned business.
This HAS to be a joke. Fat people are fat because they eat food!
We already have something just as ineffective. It's called the "Department of Education."
The year, 2007
The place, a fast food restaurant on the 'watch list'.
A young, blonde, thin FG (Fattengruppen) officer strides up and down the aisle, occasionally stopping and curtly snapping his fingers in the face of a diner.
Those diners promptly hand over their DFRC's, (Daily Food Record Cards) which the FG officer examines and returns.
Until he arrives at a table occupied by a pudgy housewife, who takes a moment too long to hide the fries...
Seizing the fries, our young officer follows up with a vicious slashing attack on the Rotund Roxanne using his riding crop.
He mashes the fries against a menu, smearing them in a circle until the fat they contain renders the thin paper transparent.
Holding the menu between his eyes and the sobbing woman's eyes he mocks her, "It vould appear that you haff been eating zumthing forbidden, yes?"
As the emaciated guards take her in charge there's a sudden crashing noise at the door...
In rush three bloated, middle-aged men wearing pullover shirts with horizontal stripes and berets, armed with Sten guns.
The restaurant is demolished afterward, yes.
But Fattengruppen Uberweasel Schmidt is not alive to see the bulldozers do their work.
This has got to be out of "The Onion."
There's no way that this could even be remotely close to being true...
But their fatness affects my health and raises my taxes...my blood pressure goes up when I am forced to sit next to one on an airplane, and the excess trash and garbage they generate puts a disproportionate strain on our garbage dumps
Meet the Ideal.
It doesn't affect your health.
And when given the choice between fighting taxes or micromanaging people's lives, you choose the latter.
Why is that?
The nannys drive me nuts too. Every whine they come up with could be altered to attack any group. No one stands up to them. We have a local Walgreens that is carding EVERYONE who asks for a pack of cigarettes...a 72-year old lady was carded last week for trying to buy a cigar for her husband.
My guess is the irony will be utterly wasted on the NYS legislature.
I'll never forget seeing an ancient man, leaning on a cane, being turned down for a single beer at a hockey game because he didn't have proper ID.
Yes! It's another way to break the capitalist economy down another notch and also bring "more" money into the government's hands for their choice of redistribution (or laundering). It's one more step toward that totalitarian regime the elite would love to control.
Unfortunately, I've got a feeling this will go through just like it did with the Tobacco industry. We've already elected too many "rats" and we aren't doing anything as a people to get them out of office. I doubt much will change as the decline and fall of the Roman Empire....I mean United States......continues. How sad it is that I have to watch it during my lifetime and pass it on to my children. I keep looking for a movement to stop the cycle, and I just don't see one.
More and more people wanting government reparations
Governmental attacks on personal vices
Politispeak
Need a sequel to 1984, 2004
This is just the "study", but we already know what some of the recommendations will be. We've seen the general blueprint via the tobacco laws.
I think they are already banning soft drinks, candy, and vending machines in some of the schools, though I don't know how widespread it is yet.
The government should not be taxing one person to pay for the health cost of another, so get the government out of providing health care.
a 72-year old lady was carded last week for trying to buy a cigar for her husband.
I'll never forget seeing an ancient man, leaning on a cane, being turned down for a single beer at a hockey game because he didn't have proper ID.
There was probably an ATF agent on the premise ready to bust the food vendor because his workers didn't ask every person for ID.
In other words, the Gestapo was looking over their shoulder.
From a related article: Who's making America so fat
"I never underestimate the ability of judges to come up with curious rulings," says Gifford of the Michigan Restaurant Association. "But clearly, if you sat around and listened to the average citizen talk about this (Barber) lawsuit, they realize it for being the frivolous shot at big money that it is and we're hopeful that judges and juries will treat it accordingly."
Here, I'll help.
Hamburgers, french-fries and soft drinks; don't they sell those in grocery stores as well as in restaurants? There are many companies that manufacture those products. Just as there are many companies that manufactured tobacco products. Lawyers attacked the tobacco manufacturers, not the retail sellers of tobacco products. Why suddenly have the fat-police going after the retail sellers/prepare rather than the manufactures? Because even the lawyers know they would be trounced by the food manufacturers. Archer Daniels Midland alone could crush all the lawyers.
Bottom line, carbohydrates stimulate overproduction of insulin that causes conversion of the carb to sugar (glucose) for use by the body. If the body does not need it immediately, it goes to fat. The body cannot make this same conversion with animal or plant fats and proteins.
Agree. The lawyers would never attack the government -- the hand that feeds them -- for advocating a bogus food pyramid.
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