Finally, obesity is a choice. And in 2016 34% of the population were overweight with a further 27% being obese. There is a very strong link between obesity and cancer/diabetes/cardiovascular disease. A person admitted to hospital for covid may on average spend 2 days there. There will certainly be people that spend a great deal more time there, but there's also a great deal that leave that day. Actually, I'll assume I'm wrong and say the average covid victim that gets hospitalized will be there for 2 weeks. How long does a person with cancer stay in a hospital? Or a person with diabetes or cardiovascular disease? I am so sick of the moral superiority self portrayed by people too #%=>ing lazy to even get out of their car to get their crap food. They got a pin prick two, maybe three times and climb up onto their high horse even though they haven't the self control to eat an apple and drink water. And when they do manage to crawl out of their car because they need to use the washroom, they're too lazy to pull a door open and instead push the handicapped button to open the door for them. Handicapped people that NEED to use that button would probably trade just about anything to not need to use the button, meanwhile the sloths basically choose to be handicapped.
Your argument is ridiculous. Obesity is not a choice with the possible exception of Sumo wrestlers.
How many obese people are saying "I love being fat and being shamed for it"?
The exception is fat boobs. "You've got small boobs. You'll never get a guy" or "No boobs, no fun." Doesn't anyone consider the size of the heart behind the left one?
A healthy diet is a big part of it but with both parents having to work to afford the million dollar starter home, convenience foods, high in fat and sugar, become the norm.
Some weight problems are hereditary. Some are cultural (Not pigging out is an insult to the cook)
We constantly fail to recognize the brain washing power of the ten huge companies that provide most of the food we buy.
They spend billions of dollars to engineer foods that encourage us to pig out.
Go to an antique market and find a Coke bottle from 60 years ago. That was a serving. They don't make them that small anymore. Research "Super-sizing" and the psychology behind it.
How much does our education system spend on counter-advertising, the understanding of the psychology, smoke and mirrors geared to make us want something. Advertising is meant to make us unhappy so we will go out and buy stuff thinking that will change our lives for the better. It's more harmful than drugs.
The key to eliminating obesity is education not dieting. Diets have a pathetic counter productive effect.
Education starts with a capable government that has the long term interests of Canada in mind.
I can forgive the bungling of the first six months of covid due to the speed of the infections. Since then it is been nothing but bungled misinformation and policies.
HTA 172 and its variants is proof that politicians haven't the brains to resolve a problem without resorting to gestapo tactics.
Radar fishing holes instead of investigating crimes is proof that politicians balance their budgets on the backs of victims.
Politicians will bend over backwards to get SNC Lavalin off the hook for alleged criminal offences. SNC Lavalin isn't in the same league as the really big companies that rule the economic system. There isn't a hope in hell that any government will go after the food conglomerates. If they banned sugar the average grocery store would shrink to the size of a 7-11.
Obese people are victims not perpetrators.
