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That's where I stopped. We're subsidizing people's poor choices. They aren't bearing the costs of their own decisions. In psychological terms, we're enabling.

Americans do need to be better educated on healthy lifestyle choices, but chronic health conditions can arise in otherwise healthy people too. I don't think you should be so quick to judge lest you find yourself in that situation some day.

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Posted by rmc

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Posted on 3/13/17 at 9:39 am to BulldogXero

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Americans do need to be better educated on healthy lifestyle choices, but chronic health conditions can arise in otherwise healthy people too. I don't think you should be so quick to judge lest you find yourself in that situation some day.

Christ on a crawfish. I'm overweight - but I pay for it - every bit of it. So I'm not going to sit here and chastise someone for poor health choices. But you can't consume 4000+ calories a day of fried shite and expect other people to pay the bill (except that you can). No one should have to be told that.

Having said that I see billboards in BR all the time about being healthy from OLOL or BRG. I see all sorts of education efforts going on. I'm sure the fedgov spends a lot of money on this.

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Posted by the808bass

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Posted on 3/13/17 at 9:41 am to BulldogXero

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Americans do need to be better educated on healthy lifestyle choices, but chronic health conditions can arise in otherwise healthy people too. I don't think you should be so quick to judge lest you find yourself in that situation some day.

I wonder what the obesity rank is for West Virginia. I bet it's in Mississippi territory.

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