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It gets worse though. Since the diabetics all use Obama care, the premiums charged go through the roof, resulting in higher subsidies per person each year --all paid for by the taxpayer.

I'll put a fatass into a $1900/month blue cross plan, that they pay $45/month for. This person may make $18000/yr due to obesity limits on ability to work. Therefore the taxpayer is subsidizing their insurance for $21600/yr, significantly more than they earn at work.

It's a giant "fuck you" to the taxpayer because everyone is getting rich in the process. Frankly, this includes me. For that same diabetic above I make about $600 In commissions for that blue cross policy, often more than the client is paying for the year.

It's a disgustingly cronyized government manipulated system...all making money on fattasses and other chronically sick Americans.

Medicaid and Medicare are worse.

Sniper says

Tenpoundbass says

As for the weight of the people, unless it's basically empty and not many people there, and the only people there are the old and fat people on a scooter basket. Fat people are normally the small minority. For every obese person in a chair, there is at least 20 healthy normal frame people.

Go take a walk through around 11 AM and report back. The obese and overweight are the majority.

All I see in Walmart are fat people walking slowly, buying food that will make them even more fat.

But the Capt. never sees them in Florida in Walmart. Apparently all the fatties are only in NJ and CA??? Don't think so.

Or, he's got his eyes closed.

Go take a walk through around 11 AM and report back. The obese and overweight are the majority.

The thing I notice in Walmart they have 100 checkout lines but only 2 of them are ever open. So I end up leaving my cart of shit right there and walk out.

Directly correlated with the leftist " don't body shame me" movement. Leftism has its price.

Ban food sales to them.....but not guns.

Therefore the taxpayer is subsidizing their insurance for $21600/yr,

The Trump voter base definitely aren’t the ones flooding CVS for Permanent Prescriptions with a few bags of candy and a crate of Diet Coke en route to Chick fil a

mell says

Directly correlated with the leftist " don't body shame me" movement. Leftism has its price.

Right. It’s the liberals buying all the candy and cereal, claiming that science is FakeNews! The Liberals tricked us to trust God and the Authority of The State over reason, that allowed for the Food Pyramid to permeate through middle America and our Churches!

The Trump voter base definitely aren’t the ones flooding CVS for Permanent Prescriptions with a few bags of candy and a crate of Diet Coke en route to Chick fil a lmao

While the latest survey data do not explain why Americans continue to get heavier, nutritionists and other experts cite lifestyle, genetics and, most importantly, a poor diet as factors.

So it's not just a problem of self-discipline. It's also a problem of the meat industry poisoning the public, most likely.

I see plenty of people who are skinny. I can't tell either way, but I think most of it is just poor dietary choices.

FortWayne says

I see plenty of people who are skinny. I can't tell either way, but I think most of it is just poor dietary choices.

Maybe it's just the people who eat at fast-food places like McDonalds who are getting the cheapest beef with the most hormones.

Would be interesting to compare fast food restaurants density to obesity in that area.

That's correct, this is who is:

Maybe it's just the people who eat at fast-food places like McDonalds who are getting the cheapest beef with the most hormones.

Would be interesting to compare fast food restaurants density to obesity in that area.

Patrick says

So it's not just a problem of self-discipline. It's also a problem of the meat industry poisoning the public, most likely.

I see plenty of people who are skinny. I can't tell either way, but I think most of it is just poor dietary choices.

But the Capt. never sees them in Florida in Walmart. Apparently all the fatties are only in NJ and CA??? Don't think so.

Folks still think dietary choices are about caloric content of the food they are going to eat. OTOH, simple carbs versus complex carbs, fat and protein seem to be a more scientific based method of evaluating what to eat. An then there is exercise.

Stay on the couch, and eat some hummus and red pepper slices and not the Big Mac, and forget exercise to lose weight.

I suspect that the hormones fed to animals to fatten them up quickly and economically are having the same effect on Americans:

Diabetes will cost anywhere from a few thousand to a hundred thousand per year.

I see plenty of people who are skinny.

choose to be ignorant and misinformed and then improperly fuel ones body with harmful crap.

errc says

choose to be ignorant and misinformed and then improperly fuel ones body with harmful crap.

Like pot?

As part of their work, the researchers split lab mice into two groups and fed each group a different diet for eight weeks. The first group ate a standard rodent chow, comprised of 14% fat, 54% carbohydrate, and 32% protein. The second group got a high-fat diet consisting of 58.4% fat, 26.6% carbohydrate, and 15% protein, which led to obesity in the group.

After eight weeks, the researchers examined the two groups of mice and noticed the obese mice had 25% fewer taste buds.Taste buds typically consist of 50 to 100 cells and usually last about 10 days before they are cycled out and replaced. Those cells are able to taste at least five different tastes, too: salt, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami.

Very interesting. Could be nature's way of trying to get obese people to eat less for their own good.

In the old days it was the King who would be fat. Now it is the peasants.