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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.
- 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
- epikore0
I wonder if this thread is offending 40% of the qbn users, but then again most designers are lean.
- yea that is kind of odd... is that because we don't have time to eat?nicole_marie
- most designers are geeks and sit on the computer all day w/o any physical activitiesepikore
- felizfeliz0
33 stone at aged 15 year old:
- ukit0
I have trouble seeing it as genetic...you didn't see obese cavemen
- ive never seen a caveman.baseline_shift
- i don't see any cavemen. how many do you see?7point34
- must have to do with running for your food, or running away to prevent from becoming it.sputnik2
- ShaneHolley0
What I've never understood is how the hell to you get obese in the first place? Surely you think "oh I'm putting on a few pounds, I'd better watch my diet a little", or do you one day wake up and look in the mirror going "shitting hell I'm 20 stone!". It's not like obesity creeps up on you without you or anyone else noticing... or does it?
- exactly, at which point do people think its OK to be as large as they are!Not_Just_Another
- GeorgesII0
retarded thread alert
--------------------------I can't believe some of you are blaming obese people for global warming, this is borderline demential
this article is based on nothing, I repeat NOTHING, if you want to debate something, trying debating the quantity of sperm needed to be considered a sperm whale!
- sputnik20
reminds me of this:
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.co…
should fat people have to pay for 2 seats if they ooze over/under the arm rest? discuss.
- duhsign0
is fat the new gay?
- jfletcher0
The idea of food addiction interests me. Why is it we now have so many things we never had before. Everything is an excuse. Food addiction is just one thing. All the ADD stuff is another.
It is a static lifestyle combined with medical industry wanting to make money? Personally I don't believe a lot of the excuses. People should take control of their own lives... but it's easier to blame something else I suppose.
- epikore0
Lard save us all
- ********0
Is it legal to record conversations without consent in the UK?
- only if they are fat********
- but then their heavy breathing will wash out the sound of their voice********
- they'll most likely be eating and not talking********
- only if they are fat
- sputnik20
partial from this article http://www.usatoday.com/news/hea…
"Thorpe and his colleagues analyzed national surveys of about 14,000 people from 1987 and 2002. The data included health care spending, medical conditions and trips to the doctor, hospital and pharmacy. Findings:
• The percentage of obese people being treated for high cholesterol, mental disorders and upper gastrointestinal disorders increased 10 percentage points.
• The increase in adult-onset diabetes contributed to a 64% rise in diabetes treatment from 1987 to 2002.
• About 25% of the extremely obese (80 or more pounds overweight) were being treated for six or more conditions in 2002, compared with 14% in 1987.
Thorpe's findings add to growing evidence that extra pounds increase medical costs. A study last year by RTI International in Raleigh, N.C., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that obese and overweight Americans racked up about $75 billion in weight-related medical bills in 2003. Because much of this is covered by Medicare and Medicaid, taxpayers pay about half the total, the study found."
many conditions are completely avoidable and directly related to obesity. fat = $
- ********0
- ********0
anyone heard that crap from that American "doctor" who was claiming obesity was actually a transmitted disease that is like a cold and from catching it you eventually become a fat fucker. But he was saying the fat people have already transmitted it and are no longer infectious. So basically it was some big excuse that would say its not fat cunts fault because it was a contagious disease they caught but also you can';t shun them because they are no longer contagious and its thin people you will catch it off.
There was some documentary about it on Channel 4 a few years back. His other evidence was obesity seemed to move across america in the 80's like a disease would... although you could probably find a connection between that and chain restaurants/corn syrup shit food.utter bollocks it was, people should stop apologising for these gluttonous fucks.
- NotByHand0
I'm really really really fat.
Sorry about the rising temperatures... I'll try a salad.
- lowimpakt0
typical Sun bollox. It is a sad twist on the science to apportion blame to obese people.
Food is actually a greater contributor to climate change than almost all other things we consume. Meat and dairy being among the worst.
if anyone wants the science/reports/studies I'll happily share the links.
- if food is a major contributor, wouldn't that make over-eaters a problem?! Especially the ones that dont eat grain and veg?baseline_shift
- GeorgesII0
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don't waste your time, apparently even if the dr who's "research" are creating such a fuss isn't a doctor, after all noone caresI guess its the obese people's fault
ps: email me some links always happy to read some studies not based on bs