You can't tax the poor.l which is where that would occur the most.
Education is what's needed. There are people among us who believe a salad is healthy.. when paired with a dollop of full fat mayonnaise.
Cooking and nutrition needs to be more prominent in schools along with finance classes.
Totally agree about education. Instead of having advertising everywhere in our faces these days maybe some should be educational rather than trying to sell **** people don't really need . Maybe 10% of ads are educational or something, healthy food, general health, exercise tips etc.Education is what's needed. There are people among us who believe a salad is healthy.. when paired with a dollop of full fat mayonnaise.
Cooking and nutrition needs to be more prominent in schools along with finance classes.
Am not too sure about thatYou can't tax the poor.l which is where that would occur the most.
Am not too sure about that
As there seems to be loads of poor people that smoke and they seem to find the money for the high TAX cost on there cigs easy enough
Having others pay tax to treat you in hospital via the NHS because of your bad choices and lack of self control is equally unethical
That's down the government not the individual. They impose tax and the NHS system which causes all these problems.
But the obesity is down to the individual.
Yeah but it's not unethical for that individual to then accept medical treatment on the NHS when they have been taxed to the hilt on their income.
You can't have your cake and eat it, i.e. impose an NHS that treats everyone's medical conditions but then imposes additional fees or taxes for anyone that doesn't live the perfect government approved lifestyle. That is basically a pseudo-insurance system.
You started off with the problemHere in the US I think it's totally ignorant to blame obesity on the individual.
/cool story bro
I've driven about 500 miles today, I stopped off the i40 at a place in New Mexico called "Gallup" to gas up and get dinner because I was starving. I drove around for about 25 minutes looking for a sandwich, the best I could find was something 2x thicker than my arm (which isn't thin at all) and was about as good as eating 2x big mac meals, so I drove round and round going past endless fast food joints, until I ended up at Sizzlers where I ate a mediocre steak.
Literally every single person I saw in Gallup was obese, the adults, the kids everybody, and it's completely obvious why - there's literally nothing other than fast food to eat, the place is absolutely saturated with it. From one end of the town to the other, and this is typical of so many small US towns.
To me it seems crazy to blame the individual, you build an environment like that, put people in it - when they start using the environment that's been created for them (eating at these places) they get obese and sick. Then so quickly - we point the finger and start blaming them for having no self control, 'if only they'd eat less or be more healthy' and completely ignore the reality of the environment these people are living in.
Nobody stands a chance of being healthy in an environment like that, and I go back home and I see us converting our high streets and other places into junk-food hotspots and nobody seems to even notice it's happening, the results of it are entirely predictable, entirely obvious and seemingly almost totally unstoppable.
How many miles did you walk, jog, run or ride a bicycle that day ?you driven 500 miles today
A lot of fashion brands are under pressure to show oversized models, and pretend it's ok to be like that.
I wish more people would embrace cycling as a way of maintaning health.
Here in the US I think it's totally ignorant to blame obesity on the individual.
/cool story bro
I've driven about 500 miles today, I stopped off the i40 at a place in New Mexico called "Gallup" to gas up and get dinner because I was starving. I drove around for about 25 minutes looking for a sandwich, the best I could find was something 2x thicker than my arm (which isn't thin at all) and was about as good as eating 2x big mac meals, so I drove round and round going past endless fast food joints, until I ended up at Sizzlers where I ate a mediocre steak.
Literally every single person I saw in Gallup was obese, the adults, the kids everybody, and it's completely obvious why - there's literally nothing other than fast food to eat, the place is absolutely saturated with it. From one end of the town to the other, and this is typical of so many small US towns.
To me it seems crazy to blame the individual, you build an environment like that, put people in it - when they start using the environment that's been created for them (eating at these places) they get obese and sick. Then so quickly - we point the finger and start blaming them for having no self control, 'if only they'd eat less or be more healthy' and completely ignore the reality of the environment these people are living in.
Nobody stands a chance of being healthy in an environment like that, and I go back home and I see us converting our high streets and other places into junk-food hotspots and nobody seems to even notice it's happening, the results of it are entirely predictable, entirely obvious and seemingly almost totally unstoppable.
Worry about yourself. Stop judging.
I got 99 problems but a slightly high BMI ain’t one.Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.