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Government will require all Americans by 2014 to have a Obesity Rating (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=230762)

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Originally Posted by teedubya (Post 6883823)

With the new Health Care reform thing, this shouldn't seem as much of a surprise. This is just the start, IMO.

If you smoke or are fat... you are the new "3/5".

ST TNG reference?

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs (Post 6883822)

People are fat in this country because the food industry dominates advertising and doesn't give a shit about keep people healthy. The only way to combat that is the government. So you either regulate the food industry, which would make everyone bitch and moan and would be wrong anyway, or you precisely target fat Americans with free weight loss, nutrition and exercise programs.

And really really expensive health insurance if they choose not to fit into the government mold for their height and weight.

smokers..check
fat people..check
old people...check

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Originally Posted by teedubya (Post 6883743)

There will be fewer fat Americans when things have less toxins in the food... and less High Fructose Corn Syrup... and less aspartame... and less shit.

But, the theory behind this is good... but I think the execution of this will be greatly flawed.

What? Actually they should replace corn syrup with aspertame. That would help.

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs (Post 6883822)

regulating the food industry "would be wrong"? what about the FDA?

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk (Post 6883832)

What? Actually they should replace corn syrup with aspertame. That would help.

No, it wouldn't.

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs (Post 6883822)

LOL

Are you saying America was a better place to live 100 years ago?

I think you are taking this to the extreme. The business world just wants to make money, so they're not going to solve the obesity problem. Expecting people to just magically become more responsible isn't going to happen, nor is the food industry going to change their ways.

The only remaining option is the government do something about it...saying that's a bad thing is just stupid. Where else is a solution going to come from?

People are fat in this country because the food industry dominates advertising and doesn't give a shit about keep people healthy. The only way to combat that is the government. So you either regulate the food industry, which would make everyone bitch and moan and would be wrong anyway, or you precisely target fat Americans with free weight loss, nutrition and exercise programs.

People are fat in this country because of decisions they make.

You act as though the advertisements are pumping fat into their blood. Or that their eyes are being held open and forced to watch said fat pumping ads.

I'm seen as heartless in this discussion when I at least have enough faith in people to believe they're capable of making their own decisions and should thus be bound by them.

But entirely too many people have your attitude - people are helpless and only the government can step in to save them from themselves.

Oh yeah, and to whatever degree the country is better now than it was 100 years ago, that has everything to do with technological innovation and nothing to do with government intervention. The average American has less purchasing power per hour worked than he did 100 years ago and that's because much of that purchasing power is going into propping up a massive federal apparatus that tells us what we can do and when we can do it.

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs (Post 6883705)

...If the average fat American was visited by a representative from a government-sponsored weight loss program...

A government-sponsored weight loss program? Are you out of what little there ever was of your ****ing mind?

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs (Post 6883822)

Bullshit. People are fat in this country because they eat too much and they don't exercise. Food industry, advertising, and government inaction have nothing to do with it. Everybody knows they should eat better and they should exercise and they choose not to.

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 6883829)

ST TNG reference?

I'm gonna go with an Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution reference.

Black folks = 3/5 of a person.

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Originally Posted by Brock (Post 6883835)

No, it wouldn't.

Sure it would. Zero calories vs. A Lot of calories.

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk (Post 6883832)

What? Actually they should replace corn syrup with aspertame. That would help.

Considering that aspartame is the devil's semen...

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk (Post 6883845)

Sure it would. Zero calories vs. A Lot of calories.

Read up on it and get back to me when you're a little more educated.

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Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco (Post 6883839)

A government-sponsored weight loss program? Are you out of what little there ever was of your ****ing mind?

Perhaps not, but he sure has been indoctrinated well, hasn't he?

Jesus, the Government has wet dreams thinking about the job they've done on this sap.

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Originally Posted by teedubya (Post 6883846)

Considering that aspartame is the devil's semen...

It helped me lose 50 pounds.