I understand that people have to be responsible for their own lives, but who here has never eaten fast food or had unprotected sex? Who has ever sunbathed? Ever smoked? Ever drank alcohol? Ever driven a car? Who has eaten produce they didn't grow and cook themselves, without the use of pesticides?
I understand your point. I do. But my point is that we're almost forced to do things that aren't in our best interests.
If you're going to go on a rant about fat people, why not about people who drive cars? Cars cause 700,000 deaths per year solely as a result of accidents.
It seems to me that you are picking on people because of their size. That's known as bullying.
Why does childhood overweight and obesity matter?
Consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle during childhood
Childhood obesity is associated with a higher chance of premature death and disability in adulthood.
Overweight and obese children are more likely to stay obese into adulthood and to develop noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at a younger age.
For most NCDs resulting from obesity, the risks depend partly on the age of onset and on the duration of obesity. Obese children and adolescents suffer from both short-term and long-term health consequences.
The most significant health consequences of childhood overweight and obesity, that often do not become apparent until adulthood, include:
•cardiovascular diseases (mainly heart disease and stroke);
•diabetes;
•musculoskeletal disorders, especially osteoarthritis; and
•certain types of cancer (endometrial, breast and colon).
Data from 2005 shows the long-term consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle:
At least 2.6 million people each year die as a result of being overweight or obese.
The OP is about fast food, that's why I targeted it in my comment. There are obese people even in places where fast food restaurants don't exist, Iran is an example. Both my anger and sympathy are directed toward those who are obese regardless of what they eat.
Eating fast food and having unprotected sex were only examples from a long list of behaviors that are originally personal choices but affect the general population as a whole. The examples you mentioned are from that list, and I totally agree with you on all of them. People totally ignore the outcome of their actions and live selfishly as if social responsibility was a crime.
I truly sympathize with obese people, they clearly need help overcome their "addiction" and selfishness, yes their way of life is really selfish; "let me eat and become fat and later dysfunctional, let me raise fat kids cuz I'm fat and can't ask them to go slim, I don't care how much I'll cost the health care system and spend the taxpayers' money on my avoidable obesity-caused diseases instead of putting that money in schools or treating kids with cancer".
I insist that obesity is becoming a major pandemic. Again, I invite you to read WHO (World Health Organization) statistics and see the bleak future of an obese world population.
Smoking is bad, so is eating fast food. The governments raised taxes on cigarettes to discourage people from smoking, why not do that with fast food??
why do fat people....
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I understand that people have to be responsible for their own lives, but who here has never eaten fast food or had unprotected sex? Who has ever sunbathed? Ever smoked? Ever drank alcohol? Ever driven a car? Who has eaten produce they didn't grow and cook themselves, without the use of pesticides?
I understand your point. I do. But my point is that we're almost forced to do things that aren't in our best interests.
If you're going to go on a rant about fat people, why not about people who drive cars? Cars cause 700,000 deaths per year solely as a result of accidents.
It seems to me that you are picking on people because of their size. That's known as bullying.
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Why does childhood overweight and obesity matter?
Consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle during childhood
Childhood obesity is associated with a higher chance of premature death and disability in adulthood.
Overweight and obese children are more likely to stay obese into adulthood and to develop noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at a younger age.
For most NCDs resulting from obesity, the risks depend partly on the age of onset and on the duration of obesity. Obese children and adolescents suffer from both short-term and long-term health consequences.
The most significant health consequences of childhood overweight and obesity, that often do not become apparent until adulthood, include:
•cardiovascular diseases (mainly heart disease and stroke);
•diabetes;
•musculoskeletal disorders, especially osteoarthritis; and
•certain types of cancer (endometrial, breast and colon).
Data from 2005 shows the long-term consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle:
At least 2.6 million people each year die as a result of being overweight or obese.
The OP is about fast food, that's why I targeted it in my comment. There are obese people even in places where fast food restaurants don't exist, Iran is an example. Both my anger and sympathy are directed toward those who are obese regardless of what they eat.
Eating fast food and having unprotected sex were only examples from a long list of behaviors that are originally personal choices but affect the general population as a whole. The examples you mentioned are from that list, and I totally agree with you on all of them. People totally ignore the outcome of their actions and live selfishly as if social responsibility was a crime.
I truly sympathize with obese people, they clearly need help overcome their "addiction" and selfishness, yes their way of life is really selfish; "let me eat and become fat and later dysfunctional, let me raise fat kids cuz I'm fat and can't ask them to go slim, I don't care how much I'll cost the health care system and spend the taxpayers' money on my avoidable obesity-caused diseases instead of putting that money in schools or treating kids with cancer".
I insist that obesity is becoming a major pandemic. Again, I invite you to read WHO (World Health Organization) statistics and see the bleak future of an obese world population.
Smoking is bad, so is eating fast food. The governments raised taxes on cigarettes to discourage people from smoking, why not do that with fast food??