Sunday, June 21, 2009

Obesity as an epidemic

Do terms like "BBW" downplay the obesity epidemic in the western world? With all the new political correctness in the world, we are no longer allowed to remind people who are more than 30% overweight and sedentary of the inherent risks to their health. Now they have a way they can find validation for being self-destructive with the personals-ad acronym BBW big beautiful woman.

A MEDCO report finds that diabetes treatments were the second leading contributor in total dollars to prescription drug spending growth in 2006, trailing only cholesterol drugs. Spending on diabetes treatments increased 14.5 percent from 2005 to 2006 and the use of diabetes drugs increased 5.1 percent.

I dont care how wonderful a charitable, caring, philanthropic human being one might be as a person. There is no justification for a weight of 375 pounds unless you are a motorcycle.

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