Five Financial Costs of American Obesity

Topics like this never fail to bring out the "fat activists" that transform discussions about physical well being into discrimination. If you take their logic seriously, then combating alcoholism is analogous to discriminating against alcoholics. Certainly no one should suffer discrimination, but to make the topic of obesity an issue of discrimination is simply a way to justify one's personal poor lifestyle.

After being on an airplane where an obese person was seated in the middle seat and flowed over into 1/3 of my seat, I'm not as sympathatic to loosing my rights in favor to someone who didn't buy the two seats he really needed.

I've watched obese people being waited on hand and foot by their families who end up with no life because they won't get help for their addiction. I've seen children loose the involvement of their parents because the parents are to obese to go to the events that they participate in.

The lose is more than money, it is loose of involvement, infringing on others time and space, extra privledges and rights the rest of us don't have.

Why does one group get privledges when it is something that can be dealt with vs. those who have disabilities that they have no control over.

I have had close relatives who were obese and who have dealt with it and saw their struggle. I'm not unaware of how tough, as with most addictions, it is to conquer. I'm very suspecious that our food has so many chemicals in it that it triggers addiction in some people and not others. None the less, it can be addressed.

its about time we can talk the effects of obesity on our society. maybe we can do something about it and not get into trouble for discriminating against large people.