On the childhood obesity thing, I agree. On the health issue, it still isn't that serious. People get sick and die all the time, what is the difference if somebody gets fat and dies. Unless said fat person is doing something to help society in a noticeable way, he/she should be treated like a normal person. Death by fat shouldn't be taken any more or less seriously than anything else putting a dent in our health.
It's not that people get fat and die, it's that people get fat and sick and cost money on other people's expenses.
They get themselves in a state such as that, where they can hardly move, if at all and can't work.
And then they get sick from being so large that they can't look after themselves hygenically, aswell as the strain their fat causes on their actual body.
And then when they get taken into hospital, or they get their benefits paid for by the government, for helpers or what have you, the cost comes from the taxpayer, from the people who aren't so big out of their own fault and are capable of working.
>always though I was overweight
>check chart
>perfectly healthy
:D
I generally reccommend you get a couple opinions on people you can trust, on whether you're overweight. Medical opinions if possible. It's too easy for someone to think they're too fat and to then starve themselves, or to think themselves too skinny and to overeat.
It happens in all first world countries. The USA has people like it, the UK has people like it and there are people in Europe and Asia and Australasia and Africa who are just as bad.
They're no help to society and it's due to their own cause. That's why people go on about the obese.
