Obesity in America is something that you see everyday. Everywhere you go you can see people who are overweight and obese. It's saddening to say that its not uncommon to drive down the road or go to the store and see overweight people. What gets me is how some parents you see on television find it alright to let their kids eat whatever they want whenever they want. Kids who are three times their normal body weight for their age eating constantly and distorting how they're suppose to look, not that looks is everything. When they grow up they'll be targeted as being ugly and obese, which in the long run their self-esteem will be extremely low. Yeah we laugh at people who are majorly obese and laugh because they don't have decent nice looking clothes to wear. That's because you have clothing industries that are still stuck in the statistics of the average American sizes from 1950 when everyone was toothpick size. Ever go to the mall and find a shirt that you really like but look for your size and its not there? Maybe its just by chance that they didn't have it but for people who are overweight/obese the chances of finding a cute shirt or nice pants that makes you look nicer is harder to come by.
The thing that bothers me the most is models. Sure you look at them and think "Wow, I wish I looked that slim/good!" I feel bad for models, they're under constant pressure to stay top notch skinny because that's what America wants to see. Would you buy a magazine to look at if it was fat people modeling? I think not.
A probable solution is to regulate health care in a way that you have to be a certain BMI. And for people who are over that there should be some type of weight loss system that they would be on in order to get to a healthy weight. This might seem harsh but it would be for their better well being and but also reduce the costs of having to spend billions of dollars doing surgeries to remove fat or get gastric bypass done because people cant stop eating.
Also I feel welfare is another contributor to supporting obesity. What person wouldn't think sitting home all day watching TV and doing whatever you want pretty much doesn't sound good. You get a check every month for doing nothing, sounds great! While promoting you to be lazy and not find a job, yeah go to classes and weekly requirements to try to make you get a job when really there's people who cheat the system all over just to be able to stay home and do nothing while people who actually work pay for it all. Then when the working people retire then what? They get a monthly paycheck based on what they worked to live on. It makes perfect sense. We work while welfare people don't, then retire and not have enough money because we get little. Even though we worked for the people who did nothing.
The thing that bothers me the most is models. Sure you look at them and think "Wow, I wish I looked that slim/good!" I feel bad for models, they're under constant pressure to stay top notch skinny because that's what America wants to see. Would you buy a magazine to look at if it was fat people modeling? I think not.
A probable solution is to regulate health care in a way that you have to be a certain BMI. And for people who are over that there should be some type of weight loss system that they would be on in order to get to a healthy weight. This might seem harsh but it would be for their better well being and but also reduce the costs of having to spend billions of dollars doing surgeries to remove fat or get gastric bypass done because people cant stop eating.
Also I feel welfare is another contributor to supporting obesity. What person wouldn't think sitting home all day watching TV and doing whatever you want pretty much doesn't sound good. You get a check every month for doing nothing, sounds great! While promoting you to be lazy and not find a job, yeah go to classes and weekly requirements to try to make you get a job when really there's people who cheat the system all over just to be able to stay home and do nothing while people who actually work pay for it all. Then when the working people retire then what? They get a monthly paycheck based on what they worked to live on. It makes perfect sense. We work while welfare people don't, then retire and not have enough money because we get little. Even though we worked for the people who did nothing.
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- Delilah said...
May 19, 2008 at 2:32 PMIf the overweight don't like their clothes, most of them can do something about it. I agree with much of what you said though.
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