I'm not kidding.
Thank you. That was my first thought when I read the article. It infuriates me to see these trashy looking obese people at my supermarket at the start of the month filling their cart with crap I won't buy or eat myself, even though I have to pay for theirs. Nothing healthy in the cart. No fruits nor vegetables. Mostly sugared soft drinks, cake, frozen pizza. And no, orange soda is not a fruit, Cheez Doodles are not a dairy product nor a good source of calcium. The government is giving them our money to buy them crap so they can get fat.
I could not agree more-that stupid food pyramid never made any sense to me, or any of my family-just like every other “study” government pays for with OUR money, it was agenda-driven and totally wrong-now we are all asked to pay still more for yet another useless program.
As a slender person, used to hard, physical work, maybe I’m an unsympathetic bitch for commenting on the plight of the obese, but I AM observant, and the individual alone is responsible for their obesity.
I don’t buy that obesity is a “disease”, any more than I think addiction is-both are choices. Adults make choices, and responsible adults accept the consequences of those choices, period. If there is a problem, it is that person’s responsibility alone to seek therapy, nutritional advice, go on a diet, etc. No government should be involved in anyone’s personal behavior choices-none of them.
I may think your personal choices are stupid and even offensive, but I will still defend your right to make them-to the death if I must-and I expect you to do the same-that is what being a free person and an American means.
When you live on a farm/ranch and produce most of your own food, you learn to eat the things nature intended for humans to eat-natural food-and obesity is an aberration. I continue to eat that same way-but that is my choice and I won’t force it on anyone...