the obesity epidemic affects each and every person in our nation, and this uniquely american idea that an individual is solely responsible for their own well-being is unrealistic. we really need to make some big changes or we are headed for failure.
fit people are more economically productive than obese people. so, solutions we could be looking into:
education. this, in my mind, is the most important. P.E. classes in public schools should be structured more specifically to teach students the fitness skills they need to lose weight. lifting weights is difficult if you've never done it before. people don't understand how exactly cardio is supposed to work, what heart rates to aim for and for how long. HIIT should be taught, and people should be taught weight-bearing exercises (lifting) with proper form. also nutrition education is a joke in this country and it's so sad that there are candy shops and soda vending machines in every high school. education efforts should go beyond children, too. we need community outreach programs, and frequent ads on TV and youtube reminding people of the economic costs of obesity. the government was able to successfully (and rightfully) demonize tobacco companies, and now it's time to radically shift public opinion on junk foods.
healthcare professionals doing their part. guess this is more education, but a lot of the time doctors and nurses opt for the path of least resistance when dealing with fat people (i've seen it) and don't properly explain the consequences of being fat. or simply don't mention it at all. being fat is a MEDICAL CONDITION, not an acceptable lifestyle choice. and medical professionals need to be speaking up about this to fat people at every available opportunity.
heavy "sin taxes" on junk foods, and big fines for snackfood companies. they created this problem. it absolutely should be illegal to push candy on kids with cartoon characters advertising the stuff. again, we should treat unhealthy foods more like tobacco and regulate it more carefully. advertising shit foods at all should be banned imo.
subsidize healthy foods, instead of corn syrup and soy. not that corn and soy can't be healthy, but the result of us subsidizing these foods is a plethora of junk processed food made with soy protein and corn syrup. this needs to end.
and idk. there's a lot more but i'll let you guys talk now :P
Gabriel Sullivan
why do traps always type exactly how you do and use dumb smiley faces?
Cooper Cox
Obese people > crossdressers
Kayden Foster
what are you even talking about.
this is not solving the obesity epidemic! :O
please stay on topic.
Nathan Wood
>our nation not my nation hahaha burger
James Russell
end the fucking corn subsidies that make HFCS so dirt cheap
Jaxon Hernandez
if you live anywhere in the western world you're not much further behind m8
Anyways people have the right to be fat as long as I don't have to pay for their healthcare.
Luke Edwards
Literally the only thing keeping america fat is people being too lazy to do something about it. So many Americans are fat because they don't care enough to do something about it. They don't know or care to know that their food is chock full of sugar and shit.
The only solution is to make fatties care somehow, like by jacking up their health care prices unless they're below a certain bodyfat percentage for their age.
Levi Nelson
>Anyways people have the right to be fat as long as I don't have to pay for their healthcare. but we all do pay for their healthcare. whether direct or indirect, their health problems are covered by money we all pitch in. there's no way around this.
don't buy in to republican lies lol :(
Adam Johnson
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Henry Martin
pol please get out. lazy racism adds nothing to a conversation :/
Logan Walker
Only because of mandatory insurance and hospitals not being able to turn them away Get rid of medicare, obamacare and allow hospitals to choose their patients
Job done
Jose Reed
HALT! Facts are racist if they go against the liberal narrative!!
Bentley Parker
>tfw your state barely slipped
Joshua Thomas
Forced fat loss labor camps. They will provide free work doing manual labor for the state with healthy food provided, losing weight and repairing our nations infrastructure at the same time. This will also lessen the health care costs associated with obesity. The only problem with this final solution to the OQ is so called "basic human rights". But I would argue that forced fat loss labor camps are a basic human right that should be forcibly accessible to every over weight American.
Julian Ortiz
hospitals WANT the costly patients. you're making zero sense here and that's sad :(
Aaron Morales
The problem with P.E. classes now is that they COMPLETELY ignore the "E". They don't teach jack shit about nutrition or exercise, the only thing they teach is to make kids hate exercise. The coaches are fat and lazy and just tell the kids to run around while they sit on their fat asses.
Ryder Cox
>but we all do pay for their healthcare. whether direct or indirect, their health problems are covered by money we all pitch in. there's no way around this. >don't buy in to republican lies lol :(
I shouldn't have to pay for their healtcare faggot
Ayden Brooks
Fats are a higher drain on welfare, disability insurances, take more sick days, less productive, etc.
It is more than just healthcare. A fat society is a weak one that affects us all
Liam Bailey
Fuck i cant wait till you kill yourself
Oliver Rodriguez
Ignorant liberal scum. Facts do not lie. Facts that show that minorities are in more risk for obesity do not lie. You however live a lie. A man pretending to be a woman wants to tell everyone else how to live, how to fix their problems, when you yourself can't even fix yours.
Luke Myers
this
Blake Anderson
>What do we do about obesity guise :( >>Oh hey evidence suggest minorities are much more likely to be obese than whites and when we superimpose maps of obesity by perentage and maps by percentage there is a correlation between the too >Stupid racist scum
Yeah keep living in a fantasy world. Niggers and spics are the fatties of America because they're stupid. What else do you want?
Ethan Ramirez
>I shouldn't have to pay for their healtcare faggot yet that is not at all the world you live in. even if fat people were no longer allowed to have health insurance, their medical costs would impact the rest of us. hospitals would still take them in even if they didn't have to, and they would charge them massive amounts of money. when the fat people could no longer pay, the hospitals would take legal action to try to get a little bit more. and when they could no longer get money from the fat person? the overall cost of healthcare goes up for everyone to make up this deficit.
idk why this is so confusing :/
this is absolutely true.
guys can we please not? :(
Owen Perry
Welfare shouldn't exist though
The purpose of starvation and disease is to cull the weak and useless and strengthen society
Colton Wilson
>has no clue about how the world works
why is it always libs who theorycraft how they think things work but actually have no clue?
Brandon Green
Fuck off you niggerfaggot.
Joshua Lewis
Kill yourself fucking freak
Nathan Barnes
we get rid of the niggers and spics, the obeastity rate will go down in the US.
niggers are 50% more likely to be obese than Whites.
spics are pretty fat, too.
Anthony Phillips
yeah but they arent inherently prone to it. its society that forces them into it. they live in worse neighborhoods and make less money. cigarettes are cheaper in minority neighborhoods. alcohol is cheaper in minority neighborhoods. junk food is cheaper than healthy food. facts dont lie but they dont always tell the whole truth.
Sebastian Jenkins
You're just as fucking stupid as vegan trap. NO WHERE in USA legislation does it say to treat group ABC different than group XYZ. It is not systematic. It is not prejudiced. Cite one fucking piece of law that says otherwise you liberal shit. Its called STATES RIGHTS. If a single state wants to charge more for alcohol or cigarettes its up to the state. BOO HOO minority groups can move to another state where that isn't the case. Idiot L's like you and vegan trap would have us all answer to the buracracy known as the federal government, living under the boot of authority. Just like vegan trap I bet you live in a gated community of whites only. You piece of fucking trash. You have no idea.
Anthony Edwards
>you have no idea why is it always the people who know the least that claim to know the most?
Cameron Brooks
Refute me then you white liberal garbage, upset a minority doesn't agree with your self hatred and constant attempts to keep us down?
Jonathan Evans
Why are white """""""""""people""""" like this?
Cooper Hall
not white
Charles Sanders
so this thread totally solved the obesity epidemic! turns out the answer was racist nonsense and baseless insults :/
go fit; you guys did it! xD
:(
Noah Jenkins
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Jaxon Moore
Lol you are the racist. You would gladly let minorities suffer so you can live in your gated community of whites only. You solved nothing, you are worthless. If you cannot see that disproportionately effected subpopulations exist within population separately by race, each having their own problems then you cannot solve the obesity epidemic. Each answer must be tailored to each race as each race has different susceptibility. You are a white fucking male. A liberal scumbag who jumped onto the tranny popularity train to brag about how tolerant and progressive you are when in fact you are the exact opposite. Selfish, arrogant, and ignorant.
Joseph Perez
people like that are just ignorant. if they read anything outside of breitbart and fox news, its not possible they would believe the things they say.
Andrew Fisher
See You are no different you white shit. You are the definition of ignorant
Robert Lee
can you kill yourself already
Adrian Martinez
>I am a retard who thinks the all-powerful nanny state is the end-all be-all of solutions The Post
Levi Peterson
>what is income and class
aka wow its fucking nothing
go back to /pol/. Veeky Forums is a board of homosexual nigger lovers.
Jace Johnson
Only thing the federal government can and should do is drop the retarded subsidies on corn and wheat and shit. After that it is up to the individual states to fix the problem, or even better, the individual
James Butler
> this uniquely american idea that an individual is solely responsible for their own well-being is unrealistic
Wrong. The healthy members of society have no obligation toward the refuse, and educational material on fitness has never been more readily available than it is now -- a simple, quick internet search away.