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srkad t1_ix0stak wrote

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The American healthcare system costs 4.1 trillion dollars.

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/NationalHealthAccountsHistorical

I don’t care about your anecdotal situation in your one nursing facility. Obesity accounts for only 4% of healthcare related costs in this country. Those are facts, not anecdotes.

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SayRaySF t1_ix0zg1w wrote

Still a staggering amount of money on something very preventable. And that cost will only continue to rise with our current trends. Complacency is not an option here lol.

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srkad t1_ix114qd wrote

And the costs associated with excessive alcohol use are almost 100 billion higher per year.

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/onlinemedia/infographics/cost-excessive-alcohol-use.html

Yet people aren’t calling for sweeping changes to how this country views and consumes alcohol. Ultimately the cost to YOU individually is negligible.

Creating government programs and regulations to help combat obesity is completely different from random people on the internet pointing out to fat people that they are fat and telling them they need to lose weight. I’m not against creating regulations to make the food we eat healthier. What I am against though is people thinking that telling someone what they should or shouldn’t eat is going to somehow help them. Mind your own business.

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elixier t1_ix12k6o wrote

>Yet people aren’t calling for sweeping changes to how this country views and consumes alcohol.

Again, "People".

Which people? Not the people in this thread, you just cant accept that, can you?

You say mockingly that people don't do anything to curb alcohol deaths and that we don't care, but when we do and just also include obesity in the list of things that need prevention just like addiction to alcohol, and say people shouldn't glorify it as a good thing, suddenly its "well it's their bodies leave them alone!!!".

The issue is anyone glorifying being overweight as okay is doing damage, I'm not saying people should be mocked, just not treated like its a GOOD thing, but you literally cant wrap your mind around any of that and think its somehow an insult or that people pick and choose.

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srkad t1_ix147nf wrote

The vast majority of Americans are the people. What discourse is there among American people for a prohibition of alcohol? Go to a new thread kid your replies to me are all fucking stupid.

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elixier t1_ix14kwl wrote

>The vast majority of Americans are the people

And Americans are the only people on earth or reddit are they? Fucking pathetic how Americans think they're the only people that matter. Hilarious how you say "you people" when you're talking to someone who you can't believe doesn't fit your pathetic worldview to the level that you disregard my existence and shift the blame to a huge group of people I don't even belong to. Only fucking stupid person is you not being capable of talking to someone without massive sweeping statements whilst also ignoring everything they say

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