re: We are missing a huge opportunity to combat obesity, why are we avoiding it?

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Yeah, that will convince them

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It would convince them.

Like most dealings with immature people with flaws (see any child under the age of six), there will be temper tantrums in response. But as we see with children, after the tantrum subsides, they typically comply with the directives of their parents and teachers.

This would be no different. They'd scream about fat shaming and whatever else, but many of them would take it as a wake up call.

We should also ask the question about how much the sugar industry is to blame for covid-19 deaths. I mean, it's obesity and diabetes that are the most dangerous comorbidities, right?

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What is your solution then? I remember when NYC gov't passed a law that banned big gulps and that was met with a "Gov't should not tell me what to do...I'll buy a big gulp and be fat if I want. It's my choice"

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There are other solutions besides big brother banning things. I'm extremely healthy. Sometimes I want a root beer when I eat a po-boy or a burger. It adds up to about one per month. I also have about five alcoholic drinks per week. It's all in moderation. Should I be prevented from this because some people can't control their appetites?

You asked what the solution was. It's each person taking personal responsibility, and if they can't do it then let them be accountable. Let them pay the additional cost of their healthcare, or do without it.

My increase over March looks about the same

Yeah

I new candidate is gonna beat trump

I don't speak for all fat people but my fat arse started running.

#avoidingwufluroundtwo

Because #bodypositivity cult.

Fat shaming needs to come back into style. Granted they always had obese people but generally most people cared how they looked.

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Obesity puts you at a much larger risk of dying from Covid, and yet nobody in power seems to want use this crisis as an opportunity to get America off the couch.

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You think the media and politicians are just going to pivot and suddenly preach self-responsibility?

The Kung Flu is reducing the rate of obesity daily.

It's hilarious we allow people the right to eat themselves to death, smoke themselves to death (and harm others at the same time), drink themselves to death (potentially harming others at the same time, but we can't give the personal freedom to go out in the world and function because of less than a .01 chance of being affected at all beyond maybe a few days of feeling bad.