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Obese should have health warnings on their clothes
Daily Mail ^ | Dec. 15

Posted on 12/15/2006 10:52:27 AM PST by Bushwacker777

"Oversize clothes should have obesity helpline numbers sewn on them to try and reduce Britain's fat crisis, a leading professor said today.

And new urban roads should only be built if they have cycle lanes, according to Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow

He is calling for more government intervention with a central agency set up to deal with the problems of obesity.

Britain's fat problem is so acute that it could even bankrupt the health system if nothing is done. "

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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America has the most obese people in the world, followed by Mexico and then the UK. Maybe tax breaks for people who keep their body's fat percentage within healthy limits might be the answer.
1 posted on 12/15/2006 10:52:30 AM PST by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777

I think that tax breaks won't inspire fat people to loose weight. Mockery does.


2 posted on 12/15/2006 10:53:27 AM PST by Kurt_D
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To: Bushwacker777

So should liberals.

LIBERALISM is bad for your health too!


3 posted on 12/15/2006 10:53:46 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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Oh PUH LEESE.

This is ridiculous. If the US does this it would be the equivalent of all the ridiculous space-wasting data/info on food and drug labels.

Plus, I'm already aggravated by current clothes:

-placing the instruction tag on the left WAISTline which is difficult to find compared to the collar
-putting at least a duplicate of the instructions in Spanish if not several other languages, making it MORE frustrating trying to find "my" instructions

Great, what we need is more tag length/width/quantity.


4 posted on 12/15/2006 10:55:28 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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And would anyone object to the US government giving tax breaks to businesses that adopt comprehansive wellness programs in their jobsites?

Ever been to Russia? There the women are fit -- here they look like what the Russians used to harpone.


5 posted on 12/15/2006 10:57:48 AM PST by Bushwacker777
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Here are my suggestions for the number:

1-800-EAT-LESS

1-800-UR2-HUGE

1-800-XOR-SIZE

1-888-TOO-MUCH

6 posted on 12/15/2006 10:58:10 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Kurt_D

Wolves! They will chase and catch the slow, fat people giving much needed exercise to the not quite so slow and fat. Unfortunately PETA will probably complain about the high cholesterol diet the poor little wolves will be eating.


7 posted on 12/15/2006 10:58:13 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Baker's Iraq Surrender Group - warming up the last helicopter out of Baghdad.)
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To: Kurt_D

Mockery doesn't work either.

I simply tell people that "Every time you lose a pound, God kills a Liberal", it helped to get me thinner.

I guess that would make Ann Coulter is a mass murderer.


8 posted on 12/15/2006 10:58:22 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: nmh

...and SOCIALISM is deadly!


9 posted on 12/15/2006 10:58:31 AM PST by Kurt_D
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I think this whole notion is idiotic, and as for that, ignorance is doing more damage than obesity ever could. Can we start discriminating against the stupid?

Can I start with the idiot that came up with this suggestion?

Can we just kill him and his offspring and move on with the knowledge that the gene pool got a little cleaner?

I think we've explored the logic of all these sorts of efforts enough for one day.


10 posted on 12/15/2006 10:58:48 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Bushwacker777

When I lived on SlimFast to get to 105, my hair fell out, my electrolytes screwed up and I was fainting on the job.

By your standards, I was healthy. My body fat percentage was within healthy limits. Hmmmmmmm.


11 posted on 12/15/2006 10:58:51 AM PST by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: Bushwacker777

Might be partly because there isn't much food in Russia in the first place.


12 posted on 12/15/2006 10:59:17 AM PST by RockinRight (Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He's a Socialist. And unqualified.)
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To: Kurt_D

Yup - another tag to wear!


13 posted on 12/15/2006 10:59:50 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Bushwacker777

America is a pretty amazing place. Things are so good here that we have fat poor people!

What a country!


14 posted on 12/15/2006 10:59:54 AM PST by RexBeach ("In war there is no substitute for victory." Douglas MacArthur)
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it could even bankrupt the health system if nothing is doneTheir runaway immigration, socialized medicine, and poor dental hygiene are creating their health system crisis.
15 posted on 12/15/2006 10:59:54 AM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
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To: Bushwacker777

"Oversize clothes should have obesity helpline numbers sewn on them to try and reduce Britain's fat crisis, a leading professor said today.

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and homosexuals should have a tattoo on their bums warning of the dangers of their lifestyle.


16 posted on 12/15/2006 11:01:07 AM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Bushwacker777

Fat people shouldn't breed. I don't understand how they some do it?


17 posted on 12/15/2006 11:02:33 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: RockinRight

Been to Russia five times -- they have plenty of food. They don't, however, have lots of cheap junk food.

Japan has less obesity than any industrialized nation -- and they have plenty of money. They just don't sit in front of the TV shoving junk down their esophogas.


18 posted on 12/15/2006 11:02:36 AM PST by Bushwacker777
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

You know remember the last time, of course, when there was some sort of state-sponsored mandatory tattooing of a group of people.


19 posted on 12/15/2006 11:02:53 AM PST by Kurt_D
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To: TruthWillWin

they some do it? = they do it


20 posted on 12/15/2006 11:03:15 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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