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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately. We all pick up the cost of obesity related illness via increased premiums. Your health neglect becomes our expense. [/quote]

Yes, and we also pick up the expenses for your my co-worker's anxiety attacks, my thin husband's high blood pressure, and the cancer treatment that everyone is likely to need if they live long enough. And end-of-life care, which is astronomically expensive. That is the point of shared risk, and not everyone's health conditions are readily visible.

Shouting about a People magazine cover and being cruel to fat people is NOT going to bring health expenses down. It's just not.[/quote]

Being honest about healthy choices and not glorifying obesity will bring down health expenses if obese people start eating less. If society tells obese people that is is ok then we will continue to pay for preventable diseases. We shouldn't glorify smoking either. [/quote]

Have you not gotten the memo? Society is NOT telling obese people that they shouldn't eat less. What planet are you living on? Society persists in shaming fat people, both to their faces and in anonymous forums like this one. You complain about People magazine? Take a look at the hundreds and hundreds of magazine covers next to it with information on diet and exercise, and LOSING WEIGHT.

So why the hell is the deafening societal message that fat is unhealthy and disgusting not working? By your rationale, everyone should be thin as a rail because society really, really clear on what "healthy" looks like. This why epidemiologists, obesity researchers and public health experts are scrambling to try to figure out what is going on with our food supply and our metabolisms.

And guess what, in the meantime, fat people need to wear clothes, and it's the good old American way to try to find a way to make money off of selling people what they need. And now a big, fat model with a beautiful face is making a shitload of money to sell clothes and cosmetics to people who aren't driven to desperation by the mere sight of a fat person. Why are you surprised that People magazine is also cashing in, both on people who are happy to see the model AND on those who are getting so angry! I bet you clicked on their link, at least!!
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