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In reply to the discussion: tax unhealthy food/drinks/products [View all]HappyMe
(20,277 posts)99. I do have tons of compassion.
I cannot find it in my heart to find any compassion for people that eat & eat & eat......
tons of calories, no concern for any health. Yet, we're supposed to be just okay with that, simply for the reason that they are over weight.
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What about the skinny people (like my uncle) who drop dead? Can we tax their heirs?
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#7
First off, show me a study that demonstrates that fat people live shorter lives or cost less money
MannyGoldstein
Nov 2012
#9
From Harvard Med: Obesity is linked to heart disease, adult diabetes and many cancers.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#18
I believe the 2012 Harvard medical study is valid. Also, genetics is only part of the puzzle.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#44
Yes. They develop diabetes, then die 10 years earlier than the average Japanese citizen.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#66
You are confusing fitness helping someone live longer, with exercise making an obese person as fit
Honeycombe8
Nov 2012
#68
No, it simply isn't true. Nothing makes up for too much fat around the heart and other organs.
Honeycombe8
Nov 2012
#83
There is a difference between moderate over-fat and being obese and being morbidly obese.
Honeycombe8
Nov 2012
#64
I didn't say tax fat people, I said tax unhealthy food and drink products!!!!
francolettieri
Nov 2012
#12
I'm very sorry about your health issues. I got in a dust-up in a Halloween candy thread. Link...
slackmaster
Nov 2012
#111
Do you take any medicine or treatment for blood pressure, blood sugar or cholesterol?
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#24
and anyone who has ever had to take something like insulin without a prescription plan to pay for it
InsultComicDog
Nov 2012
#28
Maybe she never would have gotten diabetes in the 1st place, had she eaten better?
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#38
Good. But, she did develop diabetes in the first place, and you describe her as being obese.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#42
She had diabetes because she was eating too many carbohydrates and not enough protein
liberal_at_heart
Nov 2012
#49
obesity is rising in every country in the world. whether they use high-fructose corn
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#133
I have no doubt that she was harmed by steroids or other expesnive medications.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#60
LOL! I never said anyone should be taxed extra for being ill. That is your strawman, not mine.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#74
Yet peer reviewed scientific studies show that obesity and diabetes are linked.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#91
I am glad that you are not on meds at all. You had mentioned that you visit the doctor often.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#33
and even in Canada I hear that it is very difficult to get very high quality butter
InsultComicDog
Nov 2012
#37
1. The word is "unhealthful"; 2. What foods would you exempt? Let's see your list.
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#32
Diabetes and high blood preassure is not always linked to diet, but it often is.
Dr Fate
Nov 2012
#86
No this is the kind of thing that pisses people off about liberals. Tax cigarettes and nothing else.
craigmatic
Nov 2012
#77
Frankly I don't care what pisses off people on the right but I do care about what
craigmatic
Nov 2012
#117
'fetish politics'. i like it. imo, the strange desire of the upper-middle class to get
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#116
I'm a vegetarian IMO meat is unhealthy, who is going to decide what is healthy and
Raine
Nov 2012
#110
yes, we need to tax the poor even more. soon they won't be able to eat anything,
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#114
Nanny-staters are all for "freedom of choice"...provided you make the choices they agree with
Bad_Ronald
Nov 2012
#120
As if you can't over-consume healthy products and be overweight anyway. nt
RedCappedBandit
Nov 2012
#128
yeah, don't tax upper-middle class foodies, tax blue collar workers and poor people!
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#130
it's right there in the text. price per calorie of energy. it's about satiety value, food
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#141
the main thing the body runs on is calories. try eating vitamins and minerals without
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#144