Comments on: NAFTA not nannyish enough for NYT

By: Moishe Pipik

Moishe Pipik — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:41:16 +0000

Nobody is more opposed to obesity than me. As a 5’10” 155# male, I am very disturbed by the fact that 2/3rds of Americans are obese or overweight, and the cost to society. I maintain my weight by strictly counting calories. The math and physics behind weight gain is well known–for every 3100 more calories a person consumes than what his body burns in a day, you will add a pound of fat. This is true for everyone.

However, I do not advocate restricting certain foods or putting warnings on them. Used responsibly, there are no good foods or bad foods.

Rather we should make sure that the cost of obesity is borne by the obese. Why should publically-funded health care pay for expensive treatment options for an obese type-2 diabetic when the best treatment may be for the patient to lose weight — something that costs nothing?

Let insurance companies charge premium prices for the obese and overweight, and if weight-loss is the best treatment for a specific ailment, then that should be the option available by our public health system. (They’re free to pay for other options out of their own pockets.)

By: rxc

rxc — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:15:42 +0000

I want to die while I am living, not live while I am dead.

By: cc

cc — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 15:08:14 +0000

In a materialistic, pleasure seeking society, it is so incongruous to be upset about fat and sugar. Why not enjoy your life a die 2 year sooner? Who decided that an ascetic lifestyle is the best? Should we all sleep on the bare floor, wear hair shirts, and walk everywhere? Why? The quest for purity is fine for yourself (though perhaps silly) but evil when you want to impose it on everyone else. Are we going to ration how much candy people have? The Brits have already passed a law about candy bar size.
And when they reach this idea society where there is no salt in the food, no fat, people are all their ideal weight, will they leave us alone? hahahaha no