Why is it any of the goob's business that I'm a slob ?

[kevin1]

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/hea?guid=20060225/43ffe450_3421_1334520060225-1569292591

I'm overweight , drink too much , and don't excercise . I'm ugly too , but that's neither here nor there ...

Should that be the goob's business ? Why ?





Your thoughts ?

[mr-pirk]

Oh, I don"™t know, perhaps;

Governors say states can guide people to healthier choices - and that they must to cut rising health care costs.

The toll is 700,000 a year from chronic diseases. And the cost is $117 billion a year to the economy.

Thanks
Mr-Pirk

[The Rev]

That is still not governments business... You are guys are screaming about the patriot act,, this should outrage you, what I eat is no one's business. If they don't like the diet, then buy my grocieries...

[North Texan]

If I'm eating healthy, I have nothing to hide, right?

Patriot Act defenders?

Hello?

HELLLOOOOOO????

ANYBODY HOME???

I KNOW YOU WERE HERE EARLIER!!! (hears echo)

[Charlie P]

Health care has to be about keeping people healthy. Not just helping them after they've become sick," said Michael Leavitt, secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

This is what many of the eastern midicinews are about treating people so they don't get sick.

The toll is 700,000 a year from chronic diseases. And the cost is $117 billion a year to the economy.
It's time to change the nation's culture, Huckabee said, in the same way that the nation changed its thinking on littering, drinking and driving, smoking and driving without a seatbelt

Would it be such a bad thing to educate people a little better about how to stay healthy?

I say tax the heck out of fast foods and junk foods just like they do with cigs and alcohol.

You are guys are screaming about the patriot act,,

I'll have to add this one to your list Rev.

[The Rev]

You are guys are screaming about the patriot act,,

I'll have to add this one to your list Rev.
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Thanks I can sleep at night, knowing your keeping tabs on me...

[The Mind]

watch this Iddiott - I got Huckabee as a govenor and since he's been excercising he's been trying to force it on everyone. The biggestgripe I have is a stupid BMI test for everyone who attends public schools.

BMI tests are about as accurate as carbon dating - in other words, they have no consistant accuracy at all !

There can be good things come from this - like healthier foods in schools, but it can be taken overboard. I run, play sports, racquetball, hike - everything, and I try to eat pretty well, and while I'll tell you to get off your fatrear and do something, I won't try and force the issue.

Kill yourself by being a stagnant, fat, lazy slob if you like - its NOT what your body was meant to do though

[Briman]

BMI tests are worthless, a body builder with 4% body fat could possibly be considered obese by the test.

[vc1111]

And the cost is $117 billion a year to the economy.

In the future, we may see health insurance accounting for lifestyle, in addition to the ways it does now.

If one fails to care for oneself, others are affected in a variety of ways. Business is also affected directly in adverse ways.

To me its sort of like the helmet/motorcycle argument. If you fail to wear a helmet and your injuriies are exacerbated when I cause your accident, why should I be held to the same benchmark as causing injuries to one who wore a helmet and suffered lesser injuries as a result? Its about as dumb as having your kids ride on the tailgate of a pickup at freeway speeds. Hey, if you want to do that, its okay with me, till you sue my brains out when they fall in front of my car.

[The Mind]

Its about as dumb as having your kids ride on the tailgate of a pickup at freeway speeds. Hey, if you want to do that, its okay with me, till you sue my brains out when they fall in front of my car.

Thats okay with you, but Crocodile Hunter's antics with his child isn't ?

hmmmmmmmmmmm