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   rightisright said, 4 months ago

   Go back to communism and the good old days of starving to death.
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   saywhatwhat said, 4 months ago

   @rightisright

   Nobody makes you over eat.
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   Michael wme said, 4 months ago

   Another news story: people who are grade 1 obese or just overweight live longer (but not statistically significantly longer) than those whose weight is considered ‘normal’.
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   Jase99 said, 4 months ago

   On the one hand, it’s estimated that 75% of the American populous will become diabetic within the next 50 years if current trends continue. Those people can live mostly normal lives if they get it together and manage their self-inflicted condition. On the other hand, it’s estimated that around the world, 1 person dies of starvation every 4 seconds.
   
   Our nation, as a whole, is making itself sick by seriously overeating while others literally starve to death. The absurdity of that is astounding.
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   Chillbilly said, 4 months ago

   How ‘bout if fat people are killed by assault weapons it’s only a misdemeanor? That will satisfy both the gun lobby and improve our national health.
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   ODon said, 4 months ago

   @Chillbilly

   Would you include fatheads?
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   MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago

   Perhaps this is a way out of the perceived Social Security crisis: BIG MACS FOR ALL!!!
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   Fourcrows said, 4 months ago

   What many people don’t understand is, in a growing number of cases in this country obesity is actually a symptom of starvation. Any dietician can point this out, but what is actually happening here is the types of food products that are cheap (American cheese, flour pastas and noodles, ground chuck, potato and corn based dishes and snacks) are high in trans fats, calories, and carbohydrates. People buy them because they are cheap and easy to fill up on, especially if you are low income and feeding a family. Unfortunately, they provide bulk, but not enough energy to increase the excercise required to burn it back off. Therefore, the body puts on weight, storing the excess fat and craving more food. By using more of the same food, the cycle continues and the body gets larger, but is now unable to get enough necessary nutrients from such a diet, and it begins to starve, resulting in severe health problems.
   So those people viewed as gluttons actually cannot help themselves by this point because they have to constantly eat these low-nutrient foods they can afford to maintain ANY energy level to function. This is, ironically, the same way we fatten up cattle.
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   rightisright said, 4 months ago

   @saywhatwhat

   Your comment has nothing to do with my comment. That said: be fit and healthy, so the democrats can tax you to death.
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    ruff said, 4 months ago

    @Fourcrows

    Well said.
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    Radish said, 4 months ago

    Go back to feudalism and let the peasants starve.
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    Harleyquinn said, 4 months ago

    Yes sir re, we have the fattest poor in the world. And Obama has doubled the welfare class and just made us fatter for it. Go Obama
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    Harleyquinn said, 4 months ago

    @Fourcrows

    You are not far from the truth. But the problem is what do the poor do with the energy they have? Do they limit the calories or just eat more. You can eat healthy easy. And if you just stop feeding your face you will lose weight. You describe the downward spiral of the lazy. I am saying with the same amount of money you can eat healthy in the USA. In fact with I have not heard one case of pellagra in the USA. So I yes, USA is forcing more and more unhealthy food down the guilt, but it is their choice to be fat.
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    Rottiluv said, 4 months ago

    Well I guess it’s a good thing all those Africans are dying of AIDs rather than starving to death. I’d also like to know how these figures were proven. Skinny people have heart attacks too you know.
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    Harleyquinn said, 4 months ago

    @Chillbilly

    How ‘bout if fat people are killed by assault weapons it’s only a misdemeanor? That will satisfy both the gun lobby and improve our national health.

    how liberal of you, they are bigger slower and more likely to be poor. So let us make them a target.
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