The Civil Rights movement must be bored.

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**gunslingerpro**

SilverMK2 wrote:
gunslingerpro wrote:
Because it is currently illegal to charge someone who is morbidly obese more in insurance. It's considered discrimination. Thus we all pay more (well, those of us Stateside).

You kind of missed what I was saying - why put money into the hands of insurance companies when you can help prevent people getting ill through being morbidly obese?

Nope. I'm getting what you're saying. If it would cost you more to be obese, wouldn't that prevent you from becoming obese?

Fafnir wrote: Which (barring the rare biological disorders) is ridiculous.

Absolutely agreed. But hey, almost everyone gets minority status in the US when it comes to ACLU.

**azazel the cat**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Fafnir wrote:
Why not just put a sin tax on junk food, like there is on alcohol and tobacco products? Lards get to get as fat as they desire, and the taxes will hopefully cover for when they have their inevitable quadruple bypass/adult onset diabehtus.

And I don't know too much about US education requirements, but up here in Canada (at least in Alberta), we're required to take phys-ed until at least grade 10. I know I was also required to take a life skills course (Career And Life Management was what they called it at my highschool), they could take the time to make sure people knew basic, healthy personal cooking in a class like that instead of wasting time ranting about how bad drugs are (let's face it, by time you hit highschool, anti-drug education already has done its job or has failed).

The problem likee said earlier. Is parents not willing or able to teach their kids good eating habits. It get generational. Like Me. Im working hard at loosing weight. It takes quite a bit to loose years of ingrained eating habits. Another problem is, even at 20, im still subjected to the food my family eats. Because I cannot pay for my own groceries and my familiy refuses to listen to eating right(seriously, my family considers Coliflower with cheese sauce healthy.) im restricted to what they eat.

Use skim milk, no cream cheese and no butter to make the cheese sauce, and it's actually a reasonably healthy option.

**ExNoctemNacimur**

Just give the kids an extra 45 minutes of exercise every day. Take them out for football, take them out for rugby, take them out for athletics etc. Increase the length of the school day if you have to. Obesity is getting to the point of ridiculousity.

**Frazzled**

ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Just give the kids an extra 45 minutes of exercise every day. Take them out for football, take them out for rugby, take them out for athletics etc. Increase the length of the school day if you have to. Obesity is getting to the point of ridiculousity.

Make them pick cotton.
1. They'll be healthier.
2. They'll immediately gain an understand of a quality education.

**AlmightyWalrus**

Frazzled wrote:
ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Just give the kids an extra 45 minutes of exercise every day. Take them out for football, take them out for rugby, take them out for athletics etc. Increase the length of the school day if you have to. Obesity is getting to the point of ridiculousity.

Make them pick cotton.
1. They'll be healthier.
2. They'll immediately gain an understand of a quality education.

And they'll get some appreciation of why slavery was a bad thing!

**d-usa**

Fat people save healthcare money. The temporary increase in expense is countered by shorter lives.