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Obesity? This is a job for Supernanny(neo soviet barf alert)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2330255,00.html ^
| 8 27 06
| Minette Marrin
Posted on 08/28/2006 11:20:06 AM PDT by freepatriot32
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this issue has gotton so far out of hand its ridiculous. If this author thinks the government should get involved in peoples weight and food choices he can perhaps point to even one thing the governments of england or america have got involved in where the problem was better afterwords and not 1000 times worse.
To: Gabz; SheLion; Diana in Wisconsin
ping be warned im not kidding about the barf alert
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:21:01 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: Abram; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Allosaurs_r_us; Americanwolf; Americanwolfsbrother; Annie03; ...
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:21:41 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: freepatriot32
'Way too many people are 'way too fat.
This is not the government's problem ... it is their problem.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:22:42 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: freepatriot32
Besides, there is the embarrassing fact that those who eat and drink junk do so for cheap comfort and because they are either too poor or too ignorant (or both) to prepare healthy food.
Oh, BS.
No one's too poor to eat healthy. Fresh produce and meat costs far less than the prepackaged frozen stuff.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:23:31 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(No one will be sitting in sackcloth and ashes wailing, "Oh, if only we had listened to Art Bell!"))
To: freepatriot32
Nobody who craves cheap comfort food will willingly give it up. But if over-processed, over-refined food and junk food were to become expensive while healthy fresh food became cheap the opposite of the case today people would be forced to eat well. This could be done through taxes or subsidies. Alternatively, you could ration unhealthy food.
Had the Libs not been in control for so long, this would be a nonissue. Feeding their entitlement contingents at our expense caused this. And you can bet on seeing government action continuing to attempt to curtail it, some 75 years after the fact.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:25:04 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: freepatriot32
In other words, we communized healthcare and now it can no longer meet the needs of the market, so we need to communize groceries in order to assist the failing communized healthcare system.
Facinating mental rpocess at work here.
I liked the anti-American bigotry too.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:25:26 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: freepatriot32
1. This article shows us why there shouldn't be government (a.k.a. socialized) medicine: people have no incentive to be healthy.
2. Maybe the reason poor people are fat is the same reason that many of them are poor: bad decision making/lack of personal responsibility.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:25:53 AM PDT
by
Sicon
To: freepatriot32
if over-processed, over-refined food and junk food were to become expensive while healthy fresh food became cheap the opposite of the case today Bravo Sierra! I can get the ingredients for a LARGE (a dozen servings) bowl of healthy fresh chicken-vegetable soup for the price of one jumbo grease meal at Mickey D's.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:26:40 AM PDT
by
steve-b
("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
To: ArrogantBustard; Xenalyte; freepatriot32
OTOH, it has everything to do with the insurance industry. There are already employers who refuse to hire the overweight and/or smokers. It's more expensive to insure them than 'healthy' people.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:27:37 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Xenalyte
Fresh produce and meat costs far less than the prepackaged frozen stuff.Three words: rice and beans.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:30:15 AM PDT
by
Caveman Lawyer
("If there is anybody here I have not insulted, I apologize." - Brahms, leaving a party in Vienna.)
To: Sicon; wideawake
Yes and yes. But then again, what would you expect after being raised on the hedonistic platforms of the left?
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:30:17 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: freepatriot32
But I thought the biggest problem for the poor in this country was that sooooo many poor children went to bed hungry.
Silly me.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:30:22 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Froufrou
They've apparently missed the {Blue Whale|Blimp|SSBN|Whateveritis} occupying the office a few doors down from mine ...
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:30:39 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: freepatriot32
Obese parents produce obese children, and obesity places a crippling burden on the National Health Service.
Just one more in a long list of reasons for the government to stay out of Health Care.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:31:15 AM PDT
by
xpertskir
(Shave the Whales)
To: Caveman Lawyer; Xenalyte
Actually, 11 of the 13 essential amino acids are in rice and beans. Add cheese and you got 'em all. The issue is portion control.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:31:25 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: freepatriot32; Just another Joe; CSM; lockjaw02; Publius6961; elkfersupper; nopardons; metesky; ...
Nanny State Ping..........thank you FreePatriot - you are correct the barf-alert was needed.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:31:29 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
To: steve-b
"Bravo Sierra! I can get the ingredients for a LARGE (a dozen servings) bowl of healthy fresh chicken-vegetable soup for the price of one jumbo grease meal at Mickey D's."
True, but the difference is that the McD's meal is already made. Some people just don't have the time.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:31:56 AM PDT
by
PCBMan
(Wernstrom!!!!)
To: freepatriot32
That reminds me: I'm hungry. I wonder what's in the fridge?
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:31:58 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
To: Froufrou
That and understanding that chips, soda and candy are NOT in the essential food groups.
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posted on
08/28/2006 11:32:31 AM PDT
by
najida
(The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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