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Obese adults should get counseling, federal task force says
The Los Angeles Times ^ | June 25, 2012 | Melissa Healy

Posted on 06/27/2012 9:55:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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1 posted on 06/27/2012 9:55:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The communists that have infiltrated are government are pining for the ways of China. Go to Hell, communists!


2 posted on 06/27/2012 9:58:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
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Yeah, have a social worker talk people out of being fat, that should work.


3 posted on 06/27/2012 9:59:06 PM PDT by PGR88
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our government


4 posted on 06/27/2012 9:59:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...
I, on the other hand, have lost 28 pounds so far following something analogous to the Wheat Belly diet. No counseling needed.

Nanny State PING!

5 posted on 06/27/2012 9:59:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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This is about far more than fat people and tax deductible dieting. If it was that much I’d say fine, make these diet programs tax deductible and see what happens.

This is about jolly well anything the high muckety mucks think they ought to do about people’s health no matter how quixotic. Imagine Bloomberg with PPACA powers.


6 posted on 06/27/2012 10:01:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
First they came for the fat people and I said nothing because... because...

Hey! Wait a minute! I AM fat!!!

7 posted on 06/27/2012 10:02:45 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1254 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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Thanks for the ping! And... congratulations!


8 posted on 06/27/2012 10:03:34 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xzins; blue-duncan

Fat people are the last to die in a Famine.

Skinny people are the first to die.

Remember that next time you decide on the Salad rather than the Big Mac.


9 posted on 06/27/2012 10:04:43 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Virgil Goode! Because everyone else is Bad!)
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OK..they can start the program with that fat lady in the uniform...the Sturgeon General. If they can get her to loose about 50 lbs they can trumpet their success.


10 posted on 06/27/2012 10:06:22 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Geez, what’s next? Taxpayer funded contraception and abortion?


11 posted on 06/27/2012 10:08:07 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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“Obese” Americans should demand that powah-hungry, lowlife politicians and “public servants” also be required to get “counseling”. Preferably the kind that involves frequent ass kickings by two doctors named Vinnie and Louie.


12 posted on 06/27/2012 10:08:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America! The big pinata!)
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As much as I detest this, I am chuckling a bit at the thought of what some overweight liberals I know will think when they’re assigned a therapist to counsel them on their weight. Compliments of their hero Obama.


13 posted on 06/27/2012 10:10:49 PM PDT by richmwill
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Eliminate food stamps to anyone who is overweight.


14 posted on 06/27/2012 10:17:30 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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Fat people are the last to die in a Famine.

Historically, that might have been true for some time, but maybe not today. And we haven't seen famine since the USSR.

The flip side is that some skinny people eat the Big Mac AND the salad and the fries.

I don't expect to be the first one down. ;)

/johnny

15 posted on 06/27/2012 10:22:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This obese classification is so stupid I want to scream.
I took my five year old grandson for his kindergarten check up and he was declared obese because of the federal guild lines.
The doc kept reweighing him, she said good god I can count his ribs, he is not obese.
Yet, he became part of the fed statistics.
I am beginning to loath any/all federal guild lines.


16 posted on 06/27/2012 10:23:13 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wheat Belly diet? Is that anything like the beer belly diet?


17 posted on 06/27/2012 10:23:46 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (What did the president know and when did he stop knowing it?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I guarantee that the government will get the correct science necessary to give good advice. For an insight into some of the newest science on the matter, here is this post from today:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2730564/posts

And this, from December 20, 2010:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2678741/posts

It is becoming evident that it is the type of calories we eat and not how much of them you can burn off.


18 posted on 06/27/2012 10:24:41 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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Or where you’ve gone from a six-pack to a full keg.


19 posted on 06/27/2012 10:25:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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I guarantee that the government will get the correct science necessary to give good advice.

Like in catastrophic anthropogenic global warmism?

20 posted on 06/27/2012 10:26:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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