Studies have proven that more that one in every four children that is examined by a health professional is either obese, or possesses a great deal of risk for becoming obese.
What can we do to help the youth at risk? Many people don’t realize that when they remain significantly overweight, they pose risk for more than 10 serious and possibly fatal diseases.
The thing is – we need to be realistic. Fast food restaurants are never going to go away, and parents can only prevent their child for so long. I know of mnay children that were not allowed to consume fast food, but did it every chance they got when their parents were oblivious.
Also, we can’t always force the youth to get away from the TV, go outside and exercise. There are also parents that won’t force their child to do that either. Many parents say that schools need to do this and do that, but they think that the proposal stops at 3pm, and they don’t have to worry about anything. "Since the schools can take care of it." Many parents, especially parents that are also overweight will not force their child to do something "just to be skinny", the thing is, many parents feel as if their child does not need to lose weight because they feel as if they would be catering to society’s ideals.

Both are, for the most part choices. Both cost the community money — the obese person puts stress on the health care system and the financially irresponsible person is at risk for bankruptcy and having to rely on public assistance in their old age.

We mock fat people. Shouldn’t we mock financially irresponsible people too?

Or maybe no one should mock anyone. There’s a thought.
thanks for the link, but I’m 100% debt free.

I just turned 40 and I weighed 225 pounds. Over the last year, I have gotten down to 140 pounds. I’m very healthy now with no medical problems, and have low blood pressure. My question is this:
Am I still at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers because of my prior obesity? Have I ruined myself? I run 3 miles a day, and I wish I had never let myself get that way. I’m just hoping I didn’t ruin my health forever. Does anyone know?

Thanks!

I’ve met 2 guys in my life who are very obese and say it has to do with too much estrogen. Never said what their condition was called. What is it called?
It causes obesity(and these guys are REALLY obese) and manboobs.
Pretty sure its not cirrhosis. They’ve had this their whole lives. Also sure its not thyroid problems, although I met a guy at college who was only a little overweight (not obese) who had thyroid problems. I was surprised. He says that with the right diet and exercise people with thyroid problems don’t have to be obese, although there was this one guy back in high school who as very obese with thyroid problems and died of a heart attack. The sick thing is that there was an operation that would’ve reduced his risk but his family couldn’t affoard it (a good example of our broken healthcare system).

As for Klinefelter’s. Looked that up. That’s an extra X chromosome. Suppose thats possible.

I’m not thinking about those people who are obese because of a pre-existing condition like diabetes or a side effect of a medicine.But consider that most obese people are at a much higher risk of getting sick, while taxpayers-based health insurance like Medicaid must pay for their problems. So if you have a person who eats fast food junk everyday and weighs 300 pounds, should they pay some additional tax and why?