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originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: SlowNail
This thread is a lot more fat bashing then that one was.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
People should be who they want to be instead of living your life by an artificial societal norm that changes from year-to-year.
Fat, skinny. . . . . who cares?
Damn we've become such a judgmental society!
originally posted by: Tortuga
originally posted by: DBCowboy
People should be who they want to be instead of living your life by an artificial societal norm that changes from year-to-year.
Fat, skinny. . . . . who cares?
Damn we've become such a judgmental society!
Brilliant, you going to pick up the tab for the billions in extra health care these are free eaters use?
While they are pigging themselves and to hell with the consequences, it's everyone else that pays the price. Wether that's in their taxes or missing out on medical care that their local health authority cannot give them because they're to busy dealing with greedy selfish people that don't care.
Living as you please is fine, asking me or others to 💰 the price for your life choices gives me the right to ask why.
Calling a spade a spade at least acknowledges the problem and doesn't put it in a protected / untouchable status.
This PC crap has gone WAY too far!
originally posted by: atsgrounded
a reply to: DBCowboy
IMHO, the general public has been lied to about what is healthy and why.
The govt was lobbied hard back in the 1960-1970 to match a flawed study (lipid) with a diet, the food pyramid. It is a lie and was designed to help sell cash crops.
The public did what they were told- our system it is a failure brought on by flawed science, big money corps and low moral politicians.
originally posted by: Tortuga
a reply to: DBCowboy
I live in the UK, we have the NHS. So anyone that wants to abuse their body can drain the system without a care in the world.
If we had a private medical system then I wouldn't care what they did, it wouldn't be my business.
originally posted by: atsgrounded
a reply to: Tortuga
Private medical systems are privatized socialism.
If you belong private (pay into) medical insurance program your money is pooled with the other participants. So if someone "abuses" there body (follows the US food pyramid) they will have more charges to the medical insurance program costing more.
The US system costs huge $$ not everyone is covered and even if you have insurance you can still be bankrupted. The US needs a better system.