Study: We're Eating Ourselves to Death

AP ^ | 03/09/04

[traumer]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are sitting around and eating themselves to death, with obesity closing in on tobacco as the nation's No. 1 underlying preventable killer.

The government is offering constructive, even lighthearted, advice to fight what it calls an epidemic of expanding waistlines. Americans will be told in a new ad campaign they can lose midsection ``love handles'' and double chins one step at a time if they eat less and exercise more.

[traumer]

"if everyone is thin then no one dies... "

A Great Point !

Just watch TV ads around 6PM - all the 'ask your doctor what thia-and-that PILL can do for you !'
Seems the media is selling a new paradigm of endless health.

THIS WILL BE THE FIRST GENERATION TO DIE HEALTHY !

[ladyinred]

LEAVE US ALONE!!!

[traumer]

Those who smoked - died.
Those who didn't - died too.

[SamAdams76]

Disappointed in what? That I don't like subsidizing health care? If subsidized health care is so great, then why is everybody coming down here from Canada for health care when Canada has government provided health care? I've heard all kinds of horror stories from Canada. Hospitals basically shut down on weekends and the Red Cross ends up feeding the patients. You ought to do some research on that instead of accusing me of only worrying about me and my family. At least I'm willing to take responsibility for my own health instead of relying on some government weight-loss program.

I'm actually disappointed in you. What are you doing on a conservative board?

[metesky]

Did you even read my post to you before shooting your mouth off about my conservative bonafides?

I distinctly stated that you should be working to end government involvement in health care instead of complaining about it and you're talking about some sh!t in Canada. WTF?

Pay attention, slim.