Being unable to maintain your diet / exercise / health is a shameful thing, not because their fat bothers me, but because it robs that person of living out their full potential, and the world from experiencing their greatness.
Even worse is when they feed their own horrible diet to their children and make them obese even in childhood. The poor kid spends their school years being rejected and bullied, they can't participate in activities or play sports as well as they might have, it sets them up for a lifetime of health issues, and makes it exponentially more difficult to lose weight and keep it off. Who does that to their own child?
It's a bit strange to me that more insurance companies don't make fat-loss programs a requirement before they get to morbid obesity. Are they allowed to charge more for obese people? It would save so much in the long run if patients were put in a special program as soon as they hit the overweight category. There could be options like diet counselling (where they can help them get into the right mindset, or see if they need actual counseling for trauma), meet with a dietitian/physical trainer a few times, and require a cooking class. Even if only half managed to get to healthy weight, imagine the savings for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, weight loss surgeries, all that jumbo-size hospital equipment. Plus, the rest of us wouldn't have to be embarrassed when other countries accuse the US of being fat.
That episode had some epic shaming of all sorts of people.
No way that script would be approved today unless it was 100 percent bashing conservatives and Trump supporters.
One of the best shows.
We need Al Bundy, now more than ever.
Al Bundy was a great character.
He was sort of a modern day Archie Bunker but without the politics.
I never really understood why he found Peg so undesirable, though.
She was pretty hot in the outfits she wore but maybe he just felt trapped by the whole marriage and kids deal?
HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO MY FACE?!
Well I'd say it behind your back, but my car's only got half a tank of gas!
Being unable to maintain your diet / exercise / health is a shameful thing, not because their fat bothers me, but because it robs that person of living out their full potential, and the world from experiencing their greatness.
Change my mind.
Even worse is when they feed their own horrible diet to their children and make them obese even in childhood. The poor kid spends their school years being rejected and bullied, they can't participate in activities or play sports as well as they might have, it sets them up for a lifetime of health issues, and makes it exponentially more difficult to lose weight and keep it off. Who does that to their own child?
It's a bit strange to me that more insurance companies don't make fat-loss programs a requirement before they get to morbid obesity. Are they allowed to charge more for obese people? It would save so much in the long run if patients were put in a special program as soon as they hit the overweight category. There could be options like diet counselling (where they can help them get into the right mindset, or see if they need actual counseling for trauma), meet with a dietitian/physical trainer a few times, and require a cooking class. Even if only half managed to get to healthy weight, imagine the savings for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, weight loss surgeries, all that jumbo-size hospital equipment. Plus, the rest of us wouldn't have to be embarrassed when other countries accuse the US of being fat.