Rush, their Talking to You Fat Boy!!!
Sin Tax always gets thrown on the Smokers- I suggest we tax the hell out of Coke, Cheetos and Big Macs!
I love the new camapign against taxing soft drinks- Notice the ‘Juice Drinks’ reference. What miniscule % is required to call it a ‘juice drink’ vs a Juice.
Holy smokes 7Up has lemon and Lime- that qualifies as a “healthy” Drink right?
And it’s not just those real sugar drinks either- consider the effects of an inverse Calcium/Phosphorous ration- Bone depletion (osteoporosis). Thus a combo of Sugar and phosphorous not only creates concerns about heart disease and diabetes, but debilitating bone fractures. Extensive Rehab at least - if not assisted or skilled long term care.
And as usual we have yet to find out what all these so called ‘natural’ and synthetic sweetners may cause. How many decades was saccarine used before they admitted it was carcingenic?
So essential what you ingest and what you inhale pose similar health concerns (heart disease, cancers and bone depletion) Except what you inhale doesn’t cause diabetes- a disease which effects all organ systems. so who presents the greatest cost to healthcare- Over weight Junk food eaters, Like Rush.

Well, if Americans would only stop to eat “junk food” all the time and keep to properly eat three times a day with more vegetables than poor quality meat proteins, plus stop drinking gallons of milk, and all sorts of colas and sodas, they would see a big difference.  Try it, it works.

MANY articles about “fat”, but near ZERO ON PEOPLE IN
THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH TO EAT.
Food pantries are bursting with customers, not food.
Huge increase in homelessness, huge increase in people
  who can’t buy food—- ignored in corporate media.
People are being turned away from food pantries.

I agree with ‘rollover’s’ assessment of the tv bombardment which was so disgusting to me that in May 2000 I disconnected my tv from cable and did not bother to use dish or antenna so that fixed the madison avenue attacks from that venue and because I mostly eat right and exercise enough, my health is doing OK besides what the doctor says is hypertension from heredity.

But that combination of madison avenue and the carbohydrate industry(definitely in the top 5 major useless and harmful industries)are a tough combo to remain unaffected by their incessant pounding to do anything but eat right because that won’t put the bucks in their pockets when people eat right and exercise.

And why people are fat? If you don’t understand what the pancreas does and what its hormone, insulin, does, then you deserve to remain stupid and ignorant about why the sudden jump in obese people not to mention the rise in adult type 2 diabetes in little children so with that being said just keep on believing what you will, most likely keep seeing on a goddamn tv set for your information and you will continue to stand around scratching your head and your rear in wonderment as to why people get fat(science does know why and the information is out there but it requires reading a book or two to get caught up).

hello. a preposterous notion about health care expenditures. i would like to get a snack, but first… am i the only person disgusted by the psycological bombardment of television commercials: that are designed to make me hungry for their product, but end up just making me hungry for what ever i can get my hands on- pets beware! if it is not a food commercial- it is medicine. that is the composition of 95% of today’s commercials. so half the time when i would rather be watching a program, someone is showing me delicious food to eat.

This may be a new opportunity for funding medical care.  Perhaps some of the budget should come from the profits of those fast-food institutions responsible for so many of those cases of obesity.  (That way they can share the metaphorical burden with the insurance industry!)

Science is not sure why some people are fat. It’s not overeating in particular, for all.  It’s something unknown, in a society that hates people for being fat and a long list of other things, disability, color, immigration, height…