Author Topic: Does America need a Department of Exercise? (Read 1534 times)

Eagler · « **Reply #45 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:06:05 PM »

hehe

reminds me of that commercial showing a big boy sitting on his couch watching tv choking down a pizza while being zapped by a six pack ab maker ... telling his buddy on the phone to call back as he was busy working out

funkedup · « **Reply #46 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:14:03 PM »

Since we are eliminating lazy fat people from the health care system, I think we should eliminate all other people who take part in activities which increase their risk of incurring health care expenses:

- Let's start with skiers and snowboarders. Let Darwin take care of these bellybutton clowns when they are freezing on a mountainside with a compound femur fracture. They can pay for their own ski rescue team and helicopter.
- Anybody who takes part in any dangerous sport. Skydivers, mountaineers, skateboarders, bicyclists, etc. Emergency room and orthopedic surgery costs would plummet.
- Also anybody who drinks alcohol or smokes. Both addictions cause disease, and alcohol also increases the rate of accidental injury. Drunk drivers cost us millions every year. Dirty addicts!
- People who drive cars that can go faster than the speed limit. We know that speed kills.
- All motorcyclists. No other activity creates more drooling vegetables. Brain surgery costs would drop quickly if we got these idiots out of the system.
- People who work with power tools. Sew your own damn finger back on. Emergency rooms are full of these guys.
- People who own guns. Guns are more likely to injure their owners than any other person. Rosie was right!
- People who spend a lot of time outdoors. Skin cancer KILLS!

Join me, let's clean up this country and reduce health care costs! Keep the USA healthy and safe!

Montezuma · « **Reply #47 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:16:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Rasker
hmm sounds like we need Diet Nazis and Exercise Nazis to herd the unfit and overweight into Diet und Exerzize Kamps where "workouts macht thin". Isnt the right to be fat in the Second Amendment someplace?

"When Fat is outlawed only Outlaws will waddle"

Go ahead and eat as many bacon cheeseburgers as you can cram in your pie hole, but the government should provide public parks and recreation opportunities for those that want it.

mosgood · « **Reply #48 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:23:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Wlfgng
if they can afford to pay for their own care great..
if not, Darwin comes to mind.

I agree. DO most health insurance companies penalize for obesity? If so, judging from the increasing percentage of overweight people in our country, maybe the should penalize more. It would seem that their in the best position that effect change.

batdog · « **Reply #49 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:31:15 PM »

If you wanna run heavy fuel you gotta build a big engine. Muscule mass burns calories 24/7 365 days a year. The more muscule the more calories it requires to operate.

Arobics are great..running is great. The can burn quit a few calories while doing them. You must be doing them to burn those calories though....

Fat is stored E.... even when the body is in a starvation mode from dieting it will still feed off muscule tissue as well as fat.

The best plan for excercise isnt rocket science... a mix of arobics and anarobic is good.

Kids today are allowed vie thier parents to spend alot of time infront of a PC..or TV. Parents themselves do this. Check out some of the pasty skins found in this game.

mosgood · « **Reply #50 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:33:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Montezuma
.....but the government should provide public parks and recreation opportunities for those that want it.

Why? There's not a side walk that they can run down?

Maybe the government should provide bellybutton wipers in every public bathroom because we're not responsible enough to take care of ourselves.

Rasker · « **Reply #51 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:46:24 PM »

Mosgood, shh, some politician might read this board! Don't give them any ideas!

Wlfgng · « **Reply #52 on:** March 13, 2003, 02:47:32 PM »

ok funked..

I'll play all the sports I can , including so-called dangerous sports and you eat all the cheeseburgers and fries you can.

we'll so who ends up where at the end

'dangerous' sports, including 'extreme' sports cause far fewer deaths and health problems than the populace that's obese and does nothing for their own health..

btw.. I'm not trying to single out fat people per se.. in fact, I read somewhere that a 'fat' person that regularly excersices will have fewer health problems than skinny people who don't excercise.

miko2d · « **Reply #53 on:** March 13, 2003, 05:04:34 PM »

Montezuma: ..but the government should provide public parks and recreation opportunities for those that want it.

Local municipality and state - surely. Do what you want in Calfornia or wherever you live.

But the Federal Government is constitutionally barred from owning land in the states other than military installations with the state's agreement. Go read the Constitution if you don't believe.
So unless you "park" is an infantry training center, mind your own local business, do not push more government on us.

miko

Wlfgng · « **Reply #54 on:** March 13, 2003, 05:26:34 PM »

don't build any stinking 'parks' around here please!
we have all the outdoors we need and we like it just the way it is thank you...

more hockey rinks would be good though...
oh, and someplace to rollerblade with a grade less than 8-15 percent

oh.. and a McDonalds, please build one

Montezuma · « **Reply #55 on:** March 13, 2003, 05:55:09 PM »

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Originally posted by mosgood
Why? There's not a side walk that they can run down?

Maybe the government should provide bellybutton wipers in every public bathroom because we're not responsible enough to take care of ourselves.

One of the reasons there are far fewer fatties in San Diego than the Midwest is that San Diego has things like Balboa Park, Mission Bay, Mission Trails, and State/Municipal Beaches. The private sector does not magically toejam out stuff like that for the people's benefit.

funkedup · « **Reply #56 on:** March 13, 2003, 08:23:21 PM »

This just in:

HARM (Health Agency for Risk Management) has added onto my list. Those eating rare steaks and sushi are now excluded from health care. Also anybody who has ever been within 50 yards of a McDonalds.

mosgood · « **Reply #57 on:** March 14, 2003, 07:24:35 AM »

Montezuma,
What I'm saying is that making the government responsible for peoples personal health is NOT the road anyone wants to go down NOR is it the answer.

Also, I can't see that the guy that's too damn lazy to get off his ass, walk out his front door and jog down the road on his own volition, OR go into his own back yard to pick up a jump rope for 15 minutes WILL instead drive to a park to jog or jump rope? That's why excercise videos and home gym stuff is such a big market. People have just gotten to lazy to leave home.

The reason there are so many healthy people in San Deigo is the same reason that there are in all the sunshine states. And it's the same reason there are more unhealthy people in the northern/ colder states. There are more available days in the year for outside activities and the people that don't take advantage of the sunshine now.... WONT when there's a new park doen the street. So, if the government put a new park down the street from Joe Shmo in Detroit , Michigan, I don't believe he's going to excercise one calorie more than he would if the government spent the cash somewhere else.

Parks are great but they are not the answer for obesity. Self-respect and a desire that take responsibility for your own health is.

The private sector does provide ways for people to get fit and stay healthy. Books provide education on nutrition and fitness. The internet has thousands of sites that are fitness and nutrition related. Go turn on ESPN and workout with hotbodies on the shores of Hawaii.

IMHO

lazs2 · « **Reply #58 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:40:30 AM »

a microcosm...

problem... people are too fat for their own good..

solution..

democrats.... form a government agency to fix it for our own good.

dowding.... tax everything that is remotely related to fat.

lazs.. "So... what's the problem it's their life."
lazs

mosgood · « **Reply #59 on:** March 14, 2003, 12:18:58 PM »

I agree. it is their life. But since 50% of americans are now classified as "overweight" that creates a HUGE effect on Healthcare and Health Insurance rates. We're all paying for Joe Shmo's heart transplant through higher H.I. rates. So while it IS their life, they should be the ONLY ones paying the bills for it. Do you agree?

A new park isn't going to get Joe bellybutton in gear BUT $100 bucks a month more in H.I. payments has a better chance.

Let them carry their own weight around.