Good News! Fat is Now a Disease
Great news for all you fatties. Overweight and Obesity now have NOTHING TO DO with what or how you eat. It's a disease! Officially sanctioned by the US government by way of Medicare, you can get half your stomach removed (gastric surgery) at the expense of the rest of us. Read the nonsense here:
Medicare Redefines Obesity As an Illness.
AND (the good news just doesn't stop!), they're now coming up with "exercise in a pill." Science Comes a Step Closer to a Workout in a Pill.
Here's a little history on this---uh, monumental---decision:
One month ago....
Texas Kids Among Fattest in US
Overheard at the family dinner table in Texas:
"Well now, y'all, we jess cain't figger it out... why ouah kids is kahndah plump that is... Billy-Bob! Put them Twinkies away - you'll spoil yer appetite! Bobby-Sue, you don't need them 'tater chips, we's havin' french fries with our mac 'n' cheese tonight! Both of you, turn off the TV, 'n' come set the table, pour some of that nice orange drink to go with yer dinner... an' we's gonna be havin' Brier Rabbit ice cream fer dessert! Why ah guess we jess grows 'em bigger here in Texas..."
Today....
... breakfast at the same table in Texas...
"OK now, Bobby-Sue, Billy-Bob, jess as soon as y'all are done yer breakfast we'll stop by the grocery store fer some more of that sunshiny "D" orange drink y'all like so much - finish up your "Fruit 'n' Chocolate Balls" cereal - I bought that special for y'all - then we're gonna go and see the doctor at the clinic and see why we got this here "fat illness" that the Medicare Man was talkin' about. Maybe we can get the doctor to give us some of them new "Workout Pills" that I was readin' about... And then, if yer really, really good, we'll stop at the convenience store on the way home and see if them fresh donuts is in yet! Then, when we get home, you can take yer new "Workout pills" and git some exercise with yer video games! We'll all be slim 'n' fit before we know it! (Humor courtesy of Nurse Mark. Ya'll don't get your knickers in a knot over a little funnin').
Dr. Myatt's Comment: This should come as great news to those people who don't want to claim responsibility for any part of their lives, even their eating choices. For the rest of us, this "fat funding" just looks like so much government-sponsored foolishness, fueled by Big Medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.
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