Very disturbing report of the high incicence of 9 month olds who are well on the road to chronic health problems.
Most will grow up to conservaturds who reject advice on proper nutrition, and will suffer the consequence of fat cells in the brain. They will, of course then join the ranks of the dumbfucks who post on CP as brain impaired, angry bigoted, fearful conservaturds.
Hope it is not too late for Michelle O to save them from their asshole parents
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience...ce/athirdof9montholdsalreadyobeseoroverweight
This should not be a partisan issue. This is a serious issue and yes, the government can't help, on an individual basis, if people want to continue to stuff their fat asses.
But conservatives should see that this directly affects their bottom line.
Conservatives should make a choice: either keep believing one day that their tax dollars won't be used to subsidize peoples' healthcare costs OR support reform that can help to curb the growth of this FAT-AS-SHIT nation.
Since I don't see Medicare going away anytime soon I would support the latter.
If I am offending fat people, let me say that I used to weigh substantially more than I do now. I failed many times to lose weight.
Then I finally got it right (with the MUCH appreciated assistance of utilizing nutrition labels on food brought about by--guess who-- the government). And I've kept it off.
Fat people hurt both libs and Conservatives in so many ways.
It cost more for employers to cover them (NOTICE- I said EMPLOYERS- not the govt), cost to educate people who will leave (die) the workforce earlier, lowering the value of the American employee.
Moreover, fat people will incur more sick days and have lower production during the days they are there. Doesn't a lower-valued workforce mean more jobs overseas?
Obviously, it means more taxpayer dollars helping fat poor people who have emergency intervention. The list goes on and on.
Who pays for that? Do you see this changing anytime soon? So make your choice, either support SOME things that can help America or agree to more of your tax dollars paying to subsidize fat people.
I would agree with Conservatives if the society showed an ability to not eat themselves to death. I wouldn't care if the percentage of people unable to control themselves stayed relatively steady.
I wouldn't care if obesity only applied to adults-- but when child rate of obesity is skyrocketing intervention is needed.
Also, our food system used to provide nutrition that allowed people to sustain themselves. Now our food system is almost entirely based on being a sugar-delivery system.
Can we, as a society, truly present sugary/fat food anywhere and everywhere, have nutritious food be much more expensive, barrage our children with ads for crap food and then expect MOST families not to be challenged to rear healthy kids?
Do you really believe parents have a fair fight?
Do you really expect MOST single parents working 2-3 jobs to be able to truly understand that the orange juice they give their kids each morning is not actually orange juice?
Do you really expect her to understand what it means when high-fructose corn syrup is listed as the first ingredient?
Should our schools really provide unfettered access to sugar-in-a-bottle?
Should our schools really be listing "ketchup" as a vegetable in order to meet nutrition guidelines?
If you believe that intervention MUST be costly and INEFFECTIVE, you are making these assumptions yourself. Knowledge is power and disclosure changes behavior.
The Hannaford's chain started labeling all foods based on quality of nutrition. They saw a statistically significant change in buying patterns.
What the article below didn't mention was that food manufacturers began to ask Hannafords what changes they needed to make to their food in order to receive higher marks. All resulted from clearer labeling.
NYC instituted an easy-to-ready system of nutrition disclosure (calories, sugar, carbs) for each item in chain restaurants. They found buying patterns noticeably changed. This doesn't constitute nanny government.
Why not lower my taxes paid for subsiding fat people's healthcare costs (which applies to the employed and unemployed, government assisted and employer-based healthcare plans, white/black/etc), and increase sales taxes for shitty food?
There's no reason why a sales receipt at a fast food chain can't total the number of calories on a food order for customers who want a reasonable estimate on how much they are about to consume.
Do you think people who order the 2,500 calorie plate at the "5 Guys Burgers and Fries" would continue to order it if they knew it constituted more calories than they need in a given day?
At what point do people say "this is out of control?" Well, guess what, it's out of control.
Stop believing that the government can't take steps that affect obesity without implementing a nanny state. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I'm a conservative on this issue because I want to stop subsidizing fat people. I'm a liberal on this issue because I see a million ways the government can intervene, at little cost, to make people less fat.
http://health.usnews.com/health-new...l-program-seems-to-boost-healthful-food-sales
