Comments on: NPR Claims Lazy Morbidly Obese Cretin Starving Because of “Bad Economy”

By: Tntsgram

Tntsgram — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:29:18 +0000

These are the lazy people we are supporting; when we the working class need to get a job, we go for any job, regardless of the pay, sometimes we work two jobs. What is galling about this, is they are stealing from Social Security (we paid in) and Medicare (seniors pay premiums and copays) to pay for these fat slobs.

By: Yongyoon Kim

Yongyoon Kim — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:05:06 +0000

Exactly. Just get a cheap bike to commute to work. I did that for 6 days a week and even when I was running low on money and skipping dinners for three days in on week. I lost 2 pounds that way. It’s unhealthy, but it’s better than living life as a parasite.

By: Thomas Bailey

Thomas Bailey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:37:55 +0000

Can’t afford a car or gas? Get a bike. Does the job just fine. I myself am obese and actually enjoy biking, even for great distances, such as to San Francisco (40 miles one way), Hollister (60 miles), and Oakland (40 miles)

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:59:26 +0000

Well said Tamara. I’ve gone through some lean times too, lived in poverty level most of my life and took public transport or walked to every job I ever had. It wasn’t until I started working from home that I began putting on weight, and then when I gained to much I switched to diet soda and started getting moderate exercise and lost 30lbs in the first month. If these two were walking everywhere it’d be impossible to stay fat.

Then they want us to support them?

By: Tamara

Tamara — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:33:31 +0000

I have a few things to say about this topic. I have a friend I have known for years who is extremely morbidly obese. She does not work(her husband does well for himself) she doesn’t cook, clean or care for anything. She takes nine million different medications and has had both Gastric ByPass surgery and Lap band surgery. She complains that the surgeries didn’t work when all she is willing to do is sit on the couch all day and eat take out. She never exercises and shuns our group of friends for eating well, exercising and attempting to get her involved. It is tedious at best. A person like this will make all kinds of excuses for their behavior and then blame others for their lack of initiative. It makes it difficult for anyone to feel empathy for someone who takes no responsibility for themselves. My friend’s husband started showing interest in me because I am thin, I am outgoing and I take care of myself. This started a Holy War with me being the focal point. The reason I am mentioning all of this is because some people never take responsibility for themselves and the rest of society suffers from their irresponsibility. I am sure that most of us would love to sit on the couch eat take out, never work and become as big as Jabba the Hut but in the real world we must make a contribution to society. Anyone who defends people that lack the time effort and discipline to change their lives especially when they have the resources to do so must be just as sick as the person who takes no responsibility and burdens society with their ills. If there is to be a program within “Health Care Reform” that makes concessions for the growing population of morbidly obese people and allows them to not work and live off of my tax dollars sign me up. I’d like to eat Bon Bons, not bathe for days and get back some of the contribution I paid out in taxes over the years. Sorry but this has hit a nerve. I have worked from the day I turned sixteen and have had some rough times of my own. I have never had the luxury of depending on others for my basic needs. I have been without a car and (god Forbid) walked or taken the bus to a job until I could find a “better” mode of transportation. I have eaten less when times were slim and I never once complained. In fact, I think I felt better. I valued what I had and didn’t take anything for granted. defending people like this only allows them to become a burden on society and creates yet another problem for future generations to deal with. I cant think of any parent who would suggest to their children that it’s OKAY to pay for people who cant and wont help themselves when they themselves(future generations) will never see the benefit of their tax contribution.shame on anyone who suggests otherwise

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:46:39 +0000

So you’re claiming that we should accept that these two fat people are “starving” because you think it’s discrimination to judge people by how well they care for themselves?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:14:26 +0000

It is unfortunate that the severely obese are discriminated against on a daily basis. Just judging from some of the comments left here it would appear that attacking someone based on there weight is all right with many people. What people don’t understand is that being morbidly obese brings challenges to your life that most people simply don’t recognize and losing weight for these people is almost impossible short of surgery. These two women are obviously too fat, physically limited and under educated to get a decent well paying job. My fiancé is in a somewhat similar position as she is over 400lbs and despite having a college degree in education, still finds it hard to get people to hire her. Most people view the morbidly obese as lazy, unclean, stupid and needy. This type of attitude toward people of size is really unacceptable because most of them other than their size are no different than the so-called normal people.
What people also don’t realize is that fat discrimination is based on archaic beliefs regarding deadly sins which are nothing more than a fantasy based value system developed during the early years of the Roman Catholic Church. This ancient and used up prejudice is nothing more than a spring board that enables bad behavior on the part of the discriminator. People who actively practice this type of behavior justify it by believing all sorts of outlandish claims of obesity causing anything from high insurance premiums to global warming. It’s a damn shame that droves of supposedly educated people are too stupid to recognize that scapegoating entire segments of the population based on weight or appearance is naïve juvenile thinking, flat out wrong and worst of all reprehensible bigotry.

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:36:56 +0000

That is outrageous nonsense. I have been poor, I did not turn to crime to get food (and neither did these cretin) nor did I go without. America’s poor have a higher quality of life because of we import cheap goods and produce cheap food, thus even people living at poverty level can afford three meals a day.

Being poor doesn’t lead to criminality, this is the kind of vacuous elitism a person selling a weight loss scam can be expected to blurt out when trying to sound serious. And losing weight has nothing to do with discipline and willpower? Only a degenerate selling an ebook promising lazy people they can lose weight without trying would even suggest such a dangerously uninformed opinion.

People get fat because of the sedentary lifestyle they lead. Period. If people don’t want to be fat they’d work out. None of this is my problem or my business.

I don’t allow such obvious snake oil to be peddled on my site. Find your suckers elsewhere.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:21:46 +0000

Food addiction is the number one cause of overweight, all the way from small overweight, to extreme morbid obesity. (Not the only cause, but the number one cause.)

This type of addiction in turn has several possible causes, but the result is certainly bizarre perceptions and behaviours around food, even being in complete denial of overeating, and in fact having amnesia for overeating (including the nausea that accompanies that).

It really has little or nothing to do with willpower because the whole incredible array of thoughts and behaviour is mediated entirely unconsciously.

This isn’t to say there is no answer, because there certainly is with modern therapies like BMSA, but that’s not going to happen when we hang onto some kind of blame game or keep giving out diet programs (which simply don’t work for anyone).

When lean people are poor, they do tend to lose weight because they sacrifice food in order to survive. Naturally lean people don’t have to diet or deprive themselves of food because food just isn’t that central for them.

There’s no point a lean person claiming the moral high ground for what comes pretty easily and naturally to them. Weight loss has very little to do with discipline or willpower.

When obese people are poor then tend to find ways to keep up the food level (and obviously in many cases this involves a level of crime). Another outcome is that they may actually eat somewhat less, but retain their weight due to a slowed metabolic rate. In that case you’ll see increased rates of depression, fatigue, sleep disorders, immune disorders, skin disorders, and a range of other illnesses.

With rising rates of overweight and obesity, we need to realise what is REALLY going on and use proven methods to address it. If we don’t, our already messed-up health care system is going to collapse altogether.

By: Cori

Cori — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:02:35 +0000

People who refuse to take care of their health are more likely to make others (taxpayers or anyone else) responsible for any number of other things for which they choose not to take responsibility.

Whether it is a food addiction or drug addiction, this is the mentality: “Shame on you” for pointing out the obvious and “please help me, I can’t help myself” when I keep going to the same addiction as my solution.