[Adder]

Nawww...you'll just have to pay a "fat tax". If you won't lose the weight, the gov't will help you by charging you by the extra pound "to pay for obesity related diseases".

Maybe a new IRS form, the "ton-forty"?

The percentage of "obese" people rose dramaticly when the government lowered the threshold for what is considered obese back in '96. I noted at the time that they would be coming out of the woodwork with alarming new figures and here it is. We have been manipulated and lied to by these agenda driven people. This all just a scam and we need to tell these idiots to shut up legally, scientificly and totally. Its just junk science and its wrong.

[goldstategop]

Hmmm... every woman should look like Lara Flynn Boyle and every guy should aspire to resemble Leonardo Di Caprio. Yeah, right.

[RipSawyer]

"The percentage of "obese" people rose dramaticly when the government lowered the threshold for what is considered obese back in '96. I noted at the time that they would be coming out of the woodwork with alarming new figures and here it is."

Amen, the weight charts are such that in my case if I drop
DOWN to the maximum allowed for my height on the chart everyone I know would be concerned and want to know why I am "drying up to nothing". By these charts Arnold Swartzenegger is probably very overweight.

[eXe]

You are so right.. Used to be when someone was "obese" they were rather large.. now the govt says you are "obese" if you are 20 lbs overweight. No accounting for body type, mass, or anything.. just make people instant "obese" with new guidelines and a new "disease" to deal with.