today.reuters.com — More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday.
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Closed AccountJul 25, 2006
i just roflcopt'rd when i read this.i would also fall under this category ^_^
easycheezJul 26, 2006
Good point, the obesity epidemic is partially responsible for the sky-rocketing health care prices. If people don't eat healthy they get sick, and we end up footing the bill. All those Gastro-Bypasses have to cost billions a year.
Closed AccountJul 26, 2006
its also survival of the nerd who gets laid. which obviously isnt you.
022aJul 26, 2006
"Yes, people who are tall do get some advantages, but this applies usually to people who are under 6'5, after that, they are too tall for many people's comfort and this counteracts the advantages they might get."As someone who is 6'5"+ I concur. I'd say that 6'2" or 3" is the ideal tall height. Once you get past that, troublesome things start to stack up. You start paying a premium for everything you have to interact with from clothes, to your bicycle or car. Social situations in public and at work get tough as people are inevitably split between being intimidated, overreacting so as not to feel intimidated, f**king with you in some lame david and goliath attempt, accusing you of f**king with them in some made up school yard bully scenario. 90% of strangers you meet will ask if you play basketball. 80% will make that same old stupid-ass "How's the wheather up there?" joke. 70% will ask how tall you are then immediately tell you you're wrong because "______ is ______ tall and you look _____er than him."On the bright side, 80% of women who ask how tall you are digging you and used the question to give you the easiest opener of you life.
lylumJul 26, 2006
@missflibblesI would agree with you. However, obese people in group health insurance pay the same premium as everybody else and thus other people pay for their obesity. Same with medicare. If fatties would pay for healthcare out of their own pocket I wouldn't care. Just as I wouldn't care if people not wearing their seatbelt would not cost the society money, but they do.
robotcitizenJul 26, 2006
It's not as simple as natural selection. Not when the rest of society has to pay for the healthcare costs that obesity incurs.
richiestang78Jul 27, 2006
Who cares if there fat, if there fat and cant get medical care, then let them die. If you let yourself get that big then its your own damn fault, there is no weight issue in America just alot of f**king retarded lazy asses.
wailsharkJul 27, 2006
I find that as a child, in an immigrant family, with both parents working and studying to retake all of the tests they had already done just because they weren't validated in Canada my mother still made time to cook meals every day. Some were cooked late the night before for the next day and left to heat up for whoever was at home to eat at the time out of my mother, father, and myself. There is always time to make a good meal and it may well end up being cheaper than the junk you can buy (not to mention healthier). We ate out maybe once every 2 months and even then it wasn't always at a fast food joint. I just don't see the appeal of the fast food lifestyle at all nor do I see how it can be seen as rational.
evilempireusaJul 10, 2007
Study: Many Americans Too Fat To Commit Suicide:<a class="user" href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_many_americans_too_fat_to">http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_many_americans_too_fat_to</a>
anne1129Dec 5, 2007
My friend on pluscupid.com, weighing 280 pounds, encountered such a problem last month.