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Can Blaming People for Being Fat Help Curb Obesity?
US News and World Report ^
| May 22, 2008
| Katherine Hobson
Posted on 05/23/2008 7:17:18 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That’s it! I’ll have four instead of one.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:01:19 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: JustaDumbBlonde
42
posted on
05/23/2008 8:02:17 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Madame Dufarge
In case you’re interested...
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:03:14 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
To: Mr. Mojo
Hey, as long as they don’t pick on Twiggy types (like me), it’s groovy and I’m cool with that. :-)
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:03:33 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The NRA is well organized and have an answer for every stupid liberal argument, God bless them. They are a shining beacon to demonstrate exactly how to fight simplistic retarded feel good legislation.
Unfortunately, the oil, food and alcohol companies are falling right in line behind the tobacco companies in trying to appease liberals hoping they will get what they want and go away. They’re the next ones to go over the cliff.
They’ll learn their lesson the hard way.
45
posted on
05/23/2008 8:04:09 PM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Thanks for inviting the great and gracious and eloquent Madame. :-)
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:04:19 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: sheik yerbouty
Even Rosie Odonnell balked at that, exclaimning; Did you ever see the size of my a*s? File under "Mental images I could have done without."
OTOH, we may have just found a use for the Sunday New York Times.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:06:35 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(Congress does not want answers. They want scapegoats. (andy58-in-nh))
To: Mr. Mojo
You can express disgust, contempt or anything else you want, that’s perfectly fine, but it rarely stops there.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:07:25 PM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Smoking used to be cool obesity has always been stigmatized. Some people eat comfort food to make up for feelings of rejection more stigmatization will only make matters worse.
In most cultures including America (at least for men) being fat was a sign of prosperity.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:09:11 PM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(It's too bad I've already promised myself to never vote for McCain.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
To: Dr.Zoidberg
Indeed. When I encounter something that I find “disgusting,” I simply avoid it and don’t put myself into the situation again. Funny, it works all the time, and I get what I want sooner.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:10:01 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: gracesdad
Ah! But during the Roman Period and even into the early 19th Century a full figure or more was considered to be a sign of wealth and well being.
When I was a child I was extremely active, they should have diagnosed me with HADD. My Grandparents used to tell me I was too skinny, which made me feel a bit inferior. then in the sixties when Twiggy and and the new designers came into power, I fit right in.. Still I was told by my folks that I was too skinny and that I should eat. Heck I could put away a quart of ice cream and by morning I would have lost at least 1 pound. Go figure.
Leave people alone is my view, I look on the inside not on the outside.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:10:01 PM PDT
by
oswegodeee
(Dee) ( Born in the South and raised in a G_D centered home)
To: GOP_Lady
He can pry that burger from my plump greasy hands.
To: Eric Blair 2084
Fat people are harder to kidnap. We have that on our side, also, we’re not going hungry.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:14:04 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
To: Eric Blair 2084
If only there were more shame in being fat, maybe more people would be motivated to lose weight.I nominate Little Richard Simmons to handle the problem.
To: GOP_Lady
Indeed. When I encounter something that I find disgusting, I simply avoid it and dont put myself into the situation again. Funny, it works all the time, and I get what I want sooner.
It would appear you are one of the rare people who aren't interested in forcing your view of the world on others, a desirable trait.
Uncommon, but very admirable.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:14:50 PM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
To: GOP_Lady
Twiggy was hot back in the day. (Haven’t seen a pic of her since the ‘70s).
As far as the ultra-thin go, pick out almost any Ann Coulter thread — “Hey Ann, eat a friggen steak, would ya?”
For the record, I don’t have a problem with anyone stigmatizing anyone for anything. ....including AC for being a beanpole. Just as long as they don’t cry to the gov’t to do something about it.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:18:05 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: GOP_Lady
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:21:05 PM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
Ahhh (dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah). . . YES! It's already happening. People have been conditioned and are talking about it openly and how we shouldn't eat as much. You know it, we hear it all the time.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:24:03 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: bill1952
Ummm....Bill....ever stop to think the reason you don’t see it much anymore is because you are a criminal if you do it anywhere? That gives the false impression that hardly anyone smokes. My guess is it’s different in different areas and states, but I’d say about 30 per cent of the U.S. still smokes. The Nazis, of course, claim far less.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:27:01 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of Rudy McRomney
(Using Hillary to nip Obama's heels is like beating a dead horse with an armed nuclear bomb.)
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