Has anyone heard of Susanne Eman?

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I heard somewhere that the world actually produces enough food so that everyone on the planet could get above the needed daily calorie intake for males. If that is indeed true then that makes people like this woman (morbidly obese) incredibly selfish people. I don't care if they've had a traumatic childhood, i don't care if its a defensive mechanism to cope with stress, if you get that big there is no reason to justify that at all.

Agreed it is selfish. She's putting herself well before her children (parents should put the interests of their children ahead of their own interests), not to mention being a burden on society (the taxpayer gets to foot the bill for medical expenses, etc?)

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Somebody call Obama, I know how he can get a spy in north Korea.

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Not strictly true in a state where one has state funded welfare, like the UK. The NHS is spending countless millions on treating complications as a result of obesity. The medical victim is the person making themselves obese. But financially we're all suffering as a result.

Yep. This guy cost the British taxpayer est. £100,000/year and over £1,000,000 in total. He's now lost a huge amount of weight and wants the State to remove the flabs of skin left over.

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I fully support welfarism, especially because I benefit from it (Diabetic myself, type 1) and because without it we'd be more like the US which is split between haves and have nots.

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My main gripe is that, in the vast majority of instances, obesity is self-inflicted. There are certainly many cases where it is not (genetics, perhaps depression from an uncontrollable event such as bereavement or something), but the ones that are are draining resources from other, arguably more important areas.

One of my friends is a GP and I asked him one time is it true that overweight/obesity is linked to type-2 diabetes? He said yes and that he wished that many of his patients would heed his advice and loose weight to combat their disease.

It is true that obesity can be the result of other things like certain medications or certain conditions, but that isn't too common.

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That's the fault of the system then. You set it up to allow the treatment of preventable illness, don't be upset when people take advantage of it.

Um, wrong. Any public service that is provided by taxpayer money should be accountable and people shouldn't be allowed to "take advantage" of it like that...