Fatness. Reducing Fatness May Heavily Reduce The Need For Healthcare Reform.

I wrote a piece a while back outlining how the push toward “political correctness” was a huge factor in America becoming so fat. Again, there are a lot of contributing factors other than political correctness, but that is not the point here. The point here, today, is that weight directly contributes to people’s health. People that are of average weight and body mass have fewer health problems that those of similar genetic disposition and heavier weights. Heart, skin, joint, bone, and organ problems arise from packing on the extra pounds. Diabetes has made an exponential rise in the US, and this is directly correlated to obesity.

News flash: Political correctness promotes fatness!

We Americans are a FAT nation, not calorically challenged, not encumbered, not overweight for our height, but fat.  Many want to attribute the rise in fatsos to the ingredients in food, or genetics, but I attribute it to our society’s lack of having the “set” required to tell people that they are fat, huge, or [...]