yinObese Plan PART 1
October 19th 2006 04:44
So it's very topical the last few years, in the developed western nations particularly. The weight crisis. Kids are fat. Adults are fat. Super sizing is normal. Australia is getting steadily obese. Although I find it hard to believe when they say 20% of women are obese - not just overweight, but obese. Recently my friend's held a dinner and there were 20 of us there. Statistically there should have been around four OBESE women chewing down on the chicken wings, but there was not even ONE 'solid' woman amongst us. Granted half of the ladies were Asian (dam skinny cows) but still.... I think of most the people I know, and there is only a handful of overweight people in the dozens of people I know.
I was shocked recently when I read how much of tax payers money goes into covering Medicare costs on obese related conditions and services. Now I am not rich, or stuck up, or particularly Generation Y ("me me me") but a little part of me feels angry at these obese people. C'mon, I am struggling financially - and nowadays I have to pay $50 every time I see my local doctor, and can no longer afford counseling because Medicare is covering less and less. Don't even get me started on dental! It seems a little unfair that the tax department are demanding I pay them back $145 (which I don't have) and there are big fatty's out there shoving their faces with Pringles... That was low... I don't really mean that.... It just seems a bit unbalanced...
And I know there are self esteem, education and lifestyle factors that contribute to being obese. I also know food can be an addiction just like heroin and cigarettes. I know the cycle is that you feel bad, you eat more, you get fatter, you feel worse, you eat again .... etc.... but I have a plan.
Next post will be my ingenious plan to help the national Medicare debt, help these poor obese Australians and generally help Australia.
I was shocked recently when I read how much of tax payers money goes into covering Medicare costs on obese related conditions and services. Now I am not rich, or stuck up, or particularly Generation Y ("me me me") but a little part of me feels angry at these obese people. C'mon, I am struggling financially - and nowadays I have to pay $50 every time I see my local doctor, and can no longer afford counseling because Medicare is covering less and less. Don't even get me started on dental! It seems a little unfair that the tax department are demanding I pay them back $145 (which I don't have) and there are big fatty's out there shoving their faces with Pringles... That was low... I don't really mean that.... It just seems a bit unbalanced...
And I know there are self esteem, education and lifestyle factors that contribute to being obese. I also know food can be an addiction just like heroin and cigarettes. I know the cycle is that you feel bad, you eat more, you get fatter, you feel worse, you eat again .... etc.... but I have a plan.
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Comment by TomN
Boat Heaven
Now I am stuck with, wait fo it, 42 kilos to lose to get back to my fighting weight. At 60 yrs I don't just go to the gym, stop drinking 10 glasses of claret a night or cycle 40 ks.
Funny as it may be the Sydney Olympics were partly to blame. Untill then I managed to keep myself fat not obese. Then after watching the best athlets in the world in my sport perform I said "I can't do that" and stopped.
BEWARE WE ARE ALL At RISK!!