Who's to blame for obesity? And who should pay?
It's Monday. We're all starting our diets. Again. So here's some food for thought from Health:
While experts argue over whether to blame individuals, society, fast food or families for the rapid rise in obesity rates, the perhaps more pressing question is what to do about it. The answers are pouring in -- from radio talk shows, blogs, editorial pages -- amping up the feelings of the already fed up.
Read the rest of the story here, and in a related piece with the provocative headline, "Fed up with fat and saying something about it."
What do you think? Are fat people just getting their just deserts -- should they pay more for their actions? Or do those skinny types need to shut their pie holes?
-- Rene Lynch
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Fossil fuels are to blame for obesity. Who should pay? No-one, it is a self correcting issue, just give it a few more years.
Posted by: joe | February 07, 2010 at 06:28 PM
Make the fat people pay extra taxes!
Posted by: Marc Twane | February 07, 2010 at 01:10 AM
We need to just stop being fat. That's my solution.
Posted by: Natalie | February 05, 2010 at 05:42 PM
The government totally caved to big agricultural and screwed up the american diet for the last 50 years and can now spend the next 50 years and billions, if not trillions (it's just so easy) of dollars to fix their mistakes. First off, stop farm subsidies to BIG AG!
Posted by: socialregis | February 01, 2010 at 09:36 PM