[traumer]

"We're just too darn fat, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going to do something about it," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said

[Celtjew Libertarian]

At least it's more fun eating yourself to death than starving to death.

[Rokurota]

What are they going to do? Fat tax? Forced exercise? Illegalization of anything not Tofu?

[tahiti]

"``We're just too darn fat, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going to do something about it,'' Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Tuesday at a news conference."

Two things to point out:

1--every citizen has the right to eat as much food as they can purchase, to be as fat as they desire. (Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.")

2--I would rather die of obesity and a satisfied stomach than skin and bones, starving to death.

[anncoulteriscool]

I agree i ride the train everyday and it seems the number of fat people outnumber the in-shape people....however, the good news is that everyone is on the adkins diet now.....so by July or August i expect to see lots amd lots of skinny people. LOL!

[swarthyguy]

But unlike his campaign to end smoking, he is advocating only voluntary measures at this point.

Oh, my sides. Too funny.

[DainBramage]

SUV DRIVES 300 LB WOMAN TO MCDONALDS, MAKES HER SUPERSIZE IT

[goodnesswins]

Can someone please find the headlines about all the people "starving to death in the U.S."??????

[tkathy]

Last I heard, the dims were complaining about millions going hungry.

[monkey]

...and a decline in school physical education programs ... was cited by Thompson and other officials as factors contributing to the nation's fat problem.

What drivel. Let's take a study and attach a bunch of statist nonsense to it.

[Pontiac]

The House will debate a bill Wednesday that would shield restaurants and fast food franchises from lawsuits seeking to blame them for obesity and health problems related to it. The bill was prompted by the fast-food industry's complaints about a rash of lawsuits that fault their food for Americans' bulging bellies.

When is the Republican Majority going to start leading and push through real tort reform.

[ApplegateRanch]

There is ALWAYS a "leading cause of preventable death". When one (say, auto acidents) drops, another (say 'tobacco use') takes its place. As people quit using tobacco, and older users die, something else, (say 'obesity') takes its place.

Same thing with diseases, vying for charity dollars; as one is defeated, another takes its place as the 'leading killer..."

Quite frankley, I'd rather die happy, with crumbs on my face, than starve to death. Either one is dead, but still...

[Ken H]

The War on Fat has begun.

Get yourself a bag of dry-popped, unsalted popcorn and enjoy the show.

[cubreporter]

calling michil moooooore!

[trebb]

I almost choked on my double Big Mac and triple fries when I read this tripe... </sarcasm

[valkyrieanne]

Everybody dies, Sec'y Thompson - get used to it. If the fat don't getcha, something else will. It's a scientific fact that every person over the age of 50 who's died has at one time or another in their life eaten food.

[CommandoFrank]

We're just too darn fat, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going to do something about it,"

Oh oh... I just finished off a huge bowl of strawberry shortcake with a huge scoop of whipped cream. I expect a knock on my door any moment.

Burp...

[Sapper26]

For years they said smoking will kill me, so I quit. Like many ex-smokers I put on extra weight, now that will kill me. The hell with it, I going to start smoking again.

[Labyrinthos]

A poor diet and physical inactivity caused 400,000 deaths in 2000.

Oh please. If the report said that "poor diet and physical inactivity may have contributed to 400,000 deaths in 2000," I might give the report some weight. But "caused?" Yeah right.

[GraniteStateConservative]

``We're just too darn fat, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going to do something about it,'' Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Tuesday at a news conference.

It sure is a good thing the GOP is in power; otherwise, we might have a meddlesome liberal government sticking their noses in our lives where they don't belong.

[CSM]

"A poor diet and physical inactivity caused 400,000 deaths in 2000, a 33 percent jump over 1990, said a study released Tuesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco-related deaths in the same period climbed by less than 9 percent and the gap between the two narrowed substantially."

How the heck are these numbers even possible? I am very doubtful in a 33% increased number of deaths statistic. The only way it would be possible is to change the criteria for measuring the data! More government manipulation to create a "crisis" calling for more theft of money.

How has the tobacco use number increased while over the past 20 years there has been a 50% decrease in the rate of smoking? More fictitious data!