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• nicole_marie0

  This topic interests me... I recently heard about job discrimination against people with obesity. I thought it was a interesting argument from both sides, but I side more with one. Obesity is a form of addiction and can distract and adhere you from performing your job, any other addict would be terminated as well if it were enough to be noticed.

  Obviously eating a bunch of twinkies is not the same as shooting up heroin at lunch break but I can see how being extremely large and unhealthy could make your performance less desirable then someone healthy.

  Then on the other hand they were saying it is a health condition, and individuals cannot help the way they were born... yadda yadda.

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  • Not to mention health benefit costs for the employer.baseline_shift
  • They also have increased risk of heart-attack.Corvo2
  • it's mostly about the burden of health costs/insurance premiums which are higher w/those obesity-related issuessputnik2

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