Any ideas for obesity?

[cobra_ky]

better health care, better food. that's the only way.

 

[cobra_ky]

Fat person goes to buy chocolate bar.

Till worker asks fat person to step on scales.

Fat person is too fat.

Till worker can't sell the bar to the fatty because they are too fat.

Just make rules like these - fat people CANNOT be allowed to feed their addiction. Eating too much IS an addiction.

and that's why most rehab programs make you quit cold turkey.

 

[hungoverbear]

outlaw trans fats once and for all. oh and high fructose corn syrup.

 

[Vuljatar]

Obesity isn't something that can just be "solved". People have to take responsibility for their own health. If they don't, sucks for them, and the rest of us can have a good laugh at their expense.

 

[cowbell40]

The following is an excerpt from my junior year "Modest Proposal" assignment where we had to solve some problem in a disturbing way while backing it up with shady facts from anonymous sources. My paper tackles overpopulation, world hunger, and the energy crisis all in a couple of easy steps. This is the last section from the paper, and it concerns oil and food shortages.

Spoiler

..."But that still leaves a tremendous amount of people still in need. How will those who are hungry today get the food they need? Why has food become for scarce for them in the first place? According to an anonymous source from inside the National Center for Obesity Research, our world's obese population consumes over 65% of the food supply, leaving very little for the rest of us. It is they who are the true cause of the suffering. So how can we deal with this problem in a moral, effective manner? Simply killing off all of the world's fat people would be extremely wrong; an action equivalent to the genocides of men such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mobutu. There is a way, however, to put these burdens to use for humanity; a use which will simultaneously cure us of our global shortage of oil. And, as we know, a good end justifies any means, so my solution is completely in the realm of morality. Now, as we all know, oil came from plant and animal life whose dead remains were compressed over millennia by the ground. The carbon within the organisms' tissue is the main ingredient in the oil. It isn't feasible to wait for such a geological process to occur again, so we must induce such results with what we have. And what we have is 90 million overweight people, each containing several hundred pounds of precious carbon for us to harvest. My plan of action is similar to what scientists have done to create artificial diamonds. We shall place the obese person on a large metal platform and proceed to lower a large hydraulic piston on to him. The extreme pressure created - estimated at over 10,000 atmospheres - will compress the person's carbon-filled tissue into chains and chains of oil molecules, which can be harvested. Though the expenditures of building several of these platforms would be great, in the long run this plan would save billions in both oil extraction costs and in aid packages sent to starving countries. Though the deaths of the 90 million people would be tragic, it will save countless lives in the years to come."...

YES, this is a joke.

 

[esperandote]

adults have the right to mess their health all they want but parents should get warnings for feeding their children obese.

also a good health campain could be good.

 

[jboking]

Wow, seeing some of the comments on the front page I feel kinda bad about being fat.

Maybe I should increase my quad weekly walks from 10 miles to 15...

Or maybe I should try increasing my lifting weight 30 more lbs...

or maybe I should change my lifestyle...

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[small]or maybe I should accept the fact that I'm fat and healthy and quit trying to make ultimately futile attempts at being thin.

Edit: oh and of course accept that I will be made fun of the rest of my life for something I have found through practice that I can't change.[/small]

 

[Vetinarii]

Before the 1900's being fat was a sign of good fortune and wealth... I suggest forcing people to hunt for themselves and anyone who says no because they are a vegetarian (spelling check) should be thrown into a hole until they begin to canabalise or die... then others canabalise (check all spelling there). BTW I am joking vegetarians are fine upstanding people who are very very annoying. I eat way too much and very unhealthy food eg Mc Donalds is a frequent meal, I am still thin. If I'm like this I can believe certain fat people can't get thinner.


Mimes on the other hand should be shot on sight.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Dear world, I can be any fucking size I want and if you don't like it, I shall quite happily repeat your "kind" words back at your tiny, shaved-bird-like self and if you don't like it?

I don't care, because you obviously don't care about me if you're addressing me in such a manner.

But, now I've said my part, on to the subject: There is no problem.
A fat person is fat for a reason, this reason is not because they're fat.

If I watched my family die and became fat because I was scared to go outside and was depressed, you'd have to cure my depression to revert me to "healthy" behavior.

If you want a person to have lifestyle healthiness, you've gotta fix the underlying "problem", not just aim at the fat, the obvious target.

No. Buy a treadmill.

That's all that's needed: burn more calories than you eat, it's not that hard.

 

[Quel0]

your ideas are poorly designed...

unless capitalism fails... idea 1 wont work

ideal 2 is very unfortunate because the amount of energy in versus the energy out from bike riding does not give a net gain in energy

People are different, didn't you learn that in grade school? Our kooky idea of what beauty is is terribly skewed and silly.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

this is the reason for obesity

Spoiler

the heart stopper

 

[Sindaine]

Maybe if grocery stores made a limit to how much people could buy things could change.

But then you'd still see the hambeast mother who buy just their own twinkies and diet coke, and refuse to get things for their kids.

but yeah, the only real cure for obesity is some carrot sticks and a treadmill.

 

[Wilfy]

Bacon Slicers.
For when you need to get thin fast.

 

[kamix]

I just made my acount to reply to this and other forums
i dont think that not making cloths for them is bad....in fact it would probably make hims worse. some obese people eat to be happy and if that happend then they would be more depressed
to be honest i think they should just do exercise and diet a bit, but no "rewards" for dieting and exercise either

 

[Abedeus]

What body part do you think I'm using to come up with these responses, anyway?

Addendum: No?
I will stop being a smartass when I want my suggestions taken seriously.
Despite my support of them, executions are not the way to improve the national GPA.

I think you are pulling those suggestions from the lowest part of your back.

Your response means "I won't stop being a smartass, because I don't want my suggestions taken seriously". Also, your suggestions don't apply to at least 1/3 of obese/overweight people.

 

[Booze Zombie]

No. Buy a treadmill.

That's all that's needed: burn more calories than you eat, it's not that hard.

Yes, depressed man, buy a treadmill.
I'm sure having a treadmill will overcome your motivational issues and inferirority complex instilled in you by people yelling "fat ass" at you, for sure! (Sarcasm.)

 

[pirateninj4]

I was just DOING WHAT THE FUCKING THREAD SAYS...ideas, not being a dick. Also, why not be a miracle man?

 

[Lord Thodin]

Easy. Anyone over 400 pounds gets shot and then we use their blubber for candles for as long as that lasts us and save money by not powering our lights. Recession solved.