Why don't we yell at fat people?

[ponyboy]

Watching the movie Super Size Me today (bought it) and one of the doctors in it made a good point. We pass laws against smoking, tax against cigarettes, and we're actively rude to people who smoke when we are non smokers. I know I choose to not hang out with someone if they are smoking.

Obesity is now the 2nd highest controllable cause of death in North America behind smoking. When you see a fat person stuffing their face, why don't we make fun of them and have anti obesity legislation and high taxes on unhealthy food? Maybe if cookies and chips were twice as expensive people wouldn't buy them? Maybe if we had campaigns against overeating like we do against smoking and people passing laws forcing schools to give children exercise we would be better off.

Any opinions? Why is it not politically correct to call someone fat but it's okay to degrade smokers?

 

[Vieope]

I had the same idea for a thread after watching super size me.
Yes it is right to call them fat.

 

[PreMier]

If the price of 'shit' was increased, that may drive them to eating healthy food. With that many people consuming fresh vegetables, and meats, the prices would soar.. Its already expensive enough as it is. I say let them be fat and happy.

 

[Pepper]

Because I'll kick your ass if you do!

 

[Pepper]

Seriously, though, why can't they be fat if they want to?

 

[Vieope]

Because I'll kick your ass if you do!

You have to admit that kicking a fat ass is better. All that pretty soft tissue around your feet.

 

[Pepper]

Yeah, but I'm a pretty strong fat ass...I'll kick back!

 

[Vieope]

 

[fantasma62]

Guys, I have to tell you, I hate fat people. I am fat, I admit it. I, however, am doing something about it. I have long believed that fat can be cured by eating right and doing some kind of training. I hate, and quote me if you want, fast weight loss schemes, diets, and pills. I don't care for any of it.

A while back I bought Xenadryne with Ephedra. Sure, it was out of sheer desperation, but I bought it. Followed directions and drank what it said. I spent easily 3 hours with my heart going at 100 mph and I really thought I would die of a heart attack. That stopped there. I was weighing then 310 pounds and I was looking for a way to lose weight fast.
I simply changed things around. I stopped drinking sodas, in fact, I am a recovering soda addict. I have been clean for close to 3 years. I may have had a sip of a sprite because water wasn't available, but do you want to know what's amazing? I can't drink soda because I hate it.
Fat people can cure themselves if they want to. The cure is eating right and exercising. There is no quick scheme, pill, diet. Work out, eat right. What's the matter with you fat people? You need to drop that garlic roll, that slice of pizza, that BIG MAC, the Krispy Kream doughnut (sacrifice I had to make). Stop now, you are inevitably going to die but you are going to get there faster stupid asses (fat people)...
I first said I hate fat people. As I say that, I hate myself too right? Nope, I am doing something and those who don't and decide to sue because of discrimination or decide to gang up on a thin people because he/she doesn't eat what they eat is sad and embarrasing.
Hey fatties, if you want to die young, just go to your sofa and eat yourself to death, just don't make an issue out of it....
Guys, I am sorry about going off like this, but this is a subject near and dear to my heart.....

 

[fantasma62]

Having said all this Ponyboy, I don't think you can compare smokers to fat people. As far as I know, a smoker can literally kill you by smoking next to you. All a fat person can do is gross you out with a loud nasty fart....

 

[Crono1000]

 

[Jeanie]

Fat is repulsive. I must agree. But i also must confess that I eat LOTS of junk food so please don't raise the price I just make sure that I exercise it all off. I just thank God that my children aren't fat. I can't stand it when i see entire families that are obese. There is just no excuse for that.

 

[pmech]

My wife loves my fat.... so screw you all.

 

[Arnold]

If someone smokes it directly effects me if I am near them, if someone is obese how does that effect me?

 

[Crono1000]

eye pollution

 

[CRASHMAN]

Hey! i'm fat now you bastards.....

from 184 to 220......dam i'm a fat piece of shit and i like every bit of it. well i'll cut again....one day....

Any girls want a fat guy???

 

[Vieope]

If someone smokes it directly effects me if I am near them, if someone is obese how does that effect me?

It promotes that type of lifestyle as being acceptable. No wonder why so many children are fat.

Artery disease starts young



Obese children as young as 7 already have the beginnings of artery disease, Italian and U.S. researchers reported Monday.

They found signs that the carotid arteries of 100 obese children were already becoming thick and stiff, as well as indications that the children may have a higher risk of diabetes.

"You can see vascular changes already this early in really obese children," said Dr. Maurizio Trevisan of New York's University at Buffalo, who led the study.

Trevisan, Dr. Archangelo Iannuzzi of Cava de' Tirreni Hospital in Salerno, and colleagues report their findings in the October issue of Diabetes Care.

For their study, they screened 100 children aged 6 to 14 brought to a clinic in Naples because they were overweight. They compared those children to 47 of normal weight. Ultrasound scans showed the obese children had thicker, stiffer carotid arteries, researchers said.
Source=Reuters

 

[RexStunnahH]

I have been thinking this along tiime now,I see these adds on T.V and on the radio,These fast food companies are part to blame,you hear them on commercials,taco bells Get Full Menu,Get Stuffed Get more for less,The Extra Value meals,of couse people will want more for less money,you see a 12oz. can soda for 1.00 and you see a 64oz fountain drink for $0.20 cents more,and worse it's getting to our kids.Subway is at least a place we can get something decent.But alot of kids nowdays have both parents working so of course they just eat out.Obesity causes lots of health problems,and we know tax money goes to that too.I know growing up I was pretty poor,we would eat what we could afford.Wich was basically hot dogs and rice with ketchup,or top ramen,have you seen the nutritional info on top ramen 400 calories for one pack,Fat food is cheap food.I do wish the government would step in and do something.I never seen someone tease someone for smoking,I don't think teasing or name calling is the thing to do,I know alot of fat people are ashamed of the way they look.I got freinds who are fat,I got some fat on me,I just always tryto get my freinds to come with me to the gym.But Making someone feel bad and teasing them,Nah.No Need.That would be prejudice,yelling at someone because of the way they look.Whats next,yelling at someone cause of the color of their eyes,or hair,or because they are poor.We need more education in the schools,better physical education programs a must in school.I dunno,just something.

 

[Jeeper]

If someone smokes it directly effects me if I am near them, if someone is obese how does that effect me?

It affects you by the fact you are helping to subsidize their healthcare. Bypass surgery isnt cheap. I think that healthcare costs should be proportional to the shape you keep yourself in. If you are a big fat hippo then you should have to pay more since you are more likely to need expensive medical care. People will only wake up when it costs them money. I think HMO's should start buying gyms and giving free memberships to their customers. I bet it would be cheaper in the long run.

 

[fantasma62]

It promotes that type of lifestyle as being acceptable. No wonder why so many children are fat.

...and that's the reason children have parents. If they see a fat person on the streets, do they then go pig out because they saw a fat person? That's ludicrous Viope. The lifestyle is not acceptable, I don't discount that, but the fact that they are fat, does not mean that they are going to affect you personally and make you sick (maybe to your stomach, but not deadly enough).
Who do you blame for that? TV, Radio, Newspaper. The people that perpetuate McDonalds and Dennys (my god that's a heart attack waiting to happen)...
The parents need to educate their children to maintain the right lifestyle...

 

[fantasma62]

It affects you by the fact you are helping to subsidize their healthcare. Bypass surgery isnt cheap. I think that healthcare costs should be proportional to the shape you keep yourself in. If you are a big fat hippo then you should have to pay more since you are more likely to need expensive medical care. People will only wake up when it costs them money. I think HMO's should start buying gyms and giving free memberships to their customers. I bet it would be cheaper in the long run.

I sell gastric bypasses and gastric lap bands to doctors in Latin America as part of my business. Since when is the Gastric Bypass surgery free? You don't subsidize their insurance, they pay for it. If they don't have insurance, they can't pay for it. It's a very expensive procedure that requires you to have the BUCKS. Do I agree that this should be covered by the insurance? Hell No, but there's nothing I can do about that now.
I know for a fact that people go to Latin America and Europe to do this procedure because of the high costs involved....
I have yet to see a fat person go to a public hospital to get a gastric bypass for free. Then again, just because I haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but I need some hard proof to actually believe it.

 

[jack52]

Something about what was written about the kids on the street reminded me of some things that happened when I was at my fattest. I weighed 414lbs until I had a stroke and couldn't fit in the f'ing MRI machine. It took a stroke and then the embarrassment of wheeling my lardass back to my room to wake me up. Anyway, I would meet friends walking their kids and stop to talk with the parents and the kids would ask me why are you so fat. The parent would try to hush them up and apologize, but I started to tell the kids because I eat way too much of the wrong kinds of food and don't exercise. So make sure you eat your vegetables and run and play instead of watching TV. The kids always smiled and the parents looked like they were going to puke. I'm down now to 238 and fit nicely in the MRI machine.

 

[fantasma62]

Something about what was written about the kids on the street reminded me of some things that happened when I was at my fattest. I weighed 414lbs until I had a stroke and couldn't fit in the f'ing MRI machine. It took a stroke and then the embarrassment of wheeling my lardass back to my room to wake me up. Anyway, I would meet friends walking their kids and stop to talk with the parents and the kids would ask me why are you so fat. The parent would try to hush them up and apologize, but I started to tell the kids because I eat way too much of the wrong kinds of food and don't exercise. So make sure you eat your vegetables and run and play instead of watching TV. The kids always smiled and the parents looked like they were going to puke. I'm down now to 238 and fit nicely in the MRI machine.

Congrats Jack, keep it up.....It took a dream to "wake me up" and lose the weight, or at least try to....

 

[ponyboy]

Congrats Jack, keep it up.....It took a dream to "wake me up" and lose the weight, or at least try to....

That's great and you should be commended for taking those steps. Unfortunately it is all too common that it takes something like a heart attack or stroke or death of a family member before people decide to do something about their physical health.

 

[fantasma62]

That's great and you should be commended for taking those steps. Unfortunately it is all too common that it takes something like a heart attack or stroke or death of a family member before people decide to do something about their physical health.

I agree 1,000,000%
In fact, last year a good friend of mine passed away. No, it wasn't a heart attack, but he smoked, drank and ate enough. He was rather fat and his heart got weaker and weaker and weaker. He had the heart of an 80 year old. He could have had 10 heart attacks and wouldn't know it. He died in his sleep when his heart simply stopped beating. That wasn't my wake up call, but it helped. He left a 3 year old and a 6 year old....
That's what they should show, what happens when you are fat...

 

[I Are Baboon]

Yell at fat people? Seeing how 65% of the American population is overweight, I don't have the energy to yell at two out of every three people I come across every day.

 

[Crono1000]

we make them get rid of Joe Camel but we idolize Ronald McDonald?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[fantasma62]

Yell at fat people? Seeing how 65% of the American population is overweight, I don't have the energy to yell at two out of every three people I come across every day.

 

[pmech]

Cause Ronald is a clown, and all we can associate with cigarettes is a camel? Come on work for it people. Maybe a midget selling cigarettes would work better.

 

[Dale Mabry]

I don't care if someone else is fat, why waste my precious calories trying to yell at them?