New report: obesity cost USA 300 billion a year.

[Dresta]

Information is information. If the World Fat Alliance wants to publish a report on what healthy people cost the government, theyre certainly welcome to. Never hurts to have all the facts. People have an interest in where government money is going.

They wouldn't because there is no demand for such a report, and because it wouldn't fit with the contemporary form of health puritanism that has become the established consensus. Reports like this exist for one reason, and that is to convince people that the expansion of government powers into the personal lives and decisions of it's citizens is in their own interest, because it's costing them bare monies. It also gives worthless human beings a means of making a living too, i suppose.

[~primetime~]

I think you'll find that's just about primary justification for abortion: that it eases the burden on society in it not having to pay for and support millions of unwanted children.

Don't laugh at things your primitive mind evidently cannot comprehend. It is a fact that the obese don't cost more money in medical costs (on average) than the healthy. And if you were capable of thinking for yourself, you would realise this.

Thank you Dresta for being a fat depressed slob who will have heart failure before age 50, we healthy parasites won't have to pay for you in your old age. Your willingness to avoid the gym is really putting others before yourself, thank you oh great one.

[Balla_Status]

Fat ****s are the ones that should be discriminated against in society.

Gays can't help being gay. Black people can't help being black. 99% of fat people can help being fat. There are socioeconomic and health factors involved but for the most part it can be contained.

It's just as bad in England, Ireland, Australia etc. Fat ****s everywhere once you get outside the city.

[step_back]

People should take up skipping. A decent rope will only cost around $8 and you can get in great shape doing 10-15 minutes a day. You can do it literally anywhere and it's a low impact way of training as you only really need to bounce up and down on the balls of your feet.

I started doing it after my weight training. It's a brilliant way of burning calories.

[~primetime~]

also saying "long healthy lives cost more than short obese lives" may be true...but that doesn't take into account the fact that the average healthy life probably produces 10x the amount of money than the average fat fck who decided to sit on his couch his whole life.

healthy people PRODUCE and CONTRIBUTE more to society than fat slobs do...and I don't need to hunt down stats to understand that but here you go:




shocker , the thinner and healthy you are the more money you produce

[B-hoop]

Thank you Dresta for being a fat depressed slob who will have heart failure before age 50, we healthy parasites won't have to pay for you in your old age. Your willingness to avoid the gym is really putting others before yourself, thank you oh great one.

[Breezy]

Just because a 'report' or 'study' says something doesn't necessarily make it true. Especially studies like this that only bother accounting for one side of the equation. There are other studies that show people who live healthy and fit lives are the ones that actually cost society the most in the long run - these people are the true parasites of society. This is the reality when you take into account both sides of the equation and don't just select the statistics you want so you can make an argument for nannying the population.

Fat people, although repulsive and disgusting, really don't cost shit (relatively speaking). They die earlier, and elderly people, their medical costs and social care, are the biggest drains on public funds by some distance.

This. Fat people and smokers don't cost us nearly as much as people who live to 100 and collect social security for 40 years. If you die of a heart attack or liver failure at 50 your saving us money.

[KevinNYC]

Literally every lifestyle costs billions in medical costs. The cost that really matters is the downgrade to quality of life (self-esteem, social life, etc).

Also in economics wouldn't you consider the benefits? McDonald's revenue was 28 billion last year.

Coca-Cola had revenue of 47 billion. I'm at 65 billion just picking two companies.

[ALBballer]

also saying "long healthy lives cost more than short obese lives" may be true...but that doesn't take into account the fact that the average healthy life probably produces 10x the amount of money than the average fat fck who decided to sit on his couch his whole life.

healthy people PRODUCE and CONTRIBUTE more to society than fat slobs do...and I don't need to hunt down stats to understand that but here you go:




shocker , the thinner and healthy you are the more money you produce

Not only that but healthier people tend to visit the doctors less and need less medical care in general.

[ace23]

Also in economics wouldn't you consider the benefits? McDonald's revenue was 28 billion last year.

Coca-Cola had revenue of 47 billion. I'm at 65 billion just picking two companies.

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[BasedTom]

The Final Solution can't come soon enough...

Fatties are poisoning the well and sucking the life out of Western Civilization

Hit the gym, m8s

[Fearthejameer]

USA spends money to help obese people

other countries dont care about the fatties

USA #1!!!!

[Lakers Legend#32]

Obese = Oklahoma

[~primetime~]

Obese = Oklahoma

Louisiana #1


Really though this is a bit misleading as Colorado (our thinnest state) is still obese. You can say "state-X is fatter than state-Y" but the reality of it is that the US as a whole is "fat".

[BasedTom]

Louisiana #1


Really though this is a bit misleading as Colorado (our thinnest state) is still obese. You can say "state-X is fatter than state-Y" but the reality of it is that the US as a whole is "fat".

In the "fittest" state, 1 in 5 people is still a worthless fat sack of shit. This is like the black plague of our era.

These people should be quarantined and detained into rehabilitation camps (with barbed wire and 24/7 staff and security) where they can slowly but surely learn responsibility and how to live in a healthy manner. Or they can stay there and spend the rest of their lives stuffing twinkies and donuts down their throats. Either way, SOMETHING must be done to ensure that the innocent and healthy are not affected by their irresponsible, immoral, and evil ways.