Obesity costs Canadians 30 billion a year, costs USA 270 billion a year

Freedom of speech = freedom of fat

That sure is alot of fat people in America

Because being healthy just isn't incentive enough anymore.

They want a special bribe to lose weight and be fit...

Hmm... its important to note that the US has a much, much higher population than Canada.

I think it's a big range of reasons though, a big one being Canada generally has a much wider selection of healthier foods.

fattynucks

Noted.

I think the article is pointing out that both nations are overweight. Not comparing the two.

UK

£80m bill for obesity: Benefit claims by those too fat to work have soared under Labour

The number of people claiming incapacity benefit because they are obese has doubled since 1997 as ministers moved people off the dole queue and on to sickness benefit.

The obese are £25 a week better off if they claim incapacity benefit rather than jobseeker's allowance


Read more: [link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

While they are some people doing that I don't know what it's like in America but here in the UK it's a lot cheaper to buy microwavable meals that are super high in sugar/salt than buy fresh foods.

It is cheaper, or just easier?

There are way too many "fat and dumb" voters to go after them so the government will continue to fleece the smokers who can't get any of the "fat and dumb" sheeple to defend their rights.


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Well for example the cost of a bell pepper is about $3 which you could buy 2 microwave meals.

And for other products for example if you buy the cheapest tin of beans it's mainly full of salt.

Canada pays 1/9th of what the U.S. does, but has 1/10th the population.

That would mean, Canada pays more (percentage-wise) than the U.S.

Is this just in the city?

Although I do remember London being really expensive when I lived there for 3 brief months.

That's bullshit. Prove it. Most fat people don't have any insurance.

Illegals cost that much, they use ER's like it's their GP...

What do you mean prove it?

Just go to any workplace in America.
If they work, they very likely have insurance.

Ok and have you considered the vast difference in population OP?


Geez, this is even a Wiki: [link to en.wikipedia.org]

1 People's Republic of Chinan2 1,341,710,000 January 12, 2011 19.5% Official Chinese Population Clock

2 India 1,192,660,000 January 12, 2011 17.3% Indian Population Clock

3 United States 311,876,000 January 12, 2011 4.52% Official United States Population Clock


36 Canada 34,319,000 January 12, 2011 0.5% Official Canadian Population clock





Now here is a non-Wiki link: [link to www.cia.gov (secure)]

1 China 1,330,141,295 July 2010 est.
2 India 1,173,108,018 July 2010 est.
3 United States 310,232,863 July 2010 est. ...

36 Canada 33,759,742 July 2010 est.

Work those statistics down to cost per 100 Americans vs Canadians. America has a larger population and the government does not subsidize health costs also most hospitals and clinics are for profit institutions. Medical supply companies usually have a 500 percent markup on their products then medical providers add their markup.

shhhhh.

Be verry carfull you know which side of the wall is the inside, and clearly understand your amendments 13 and 14
before you speak more on this.

13: Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

14: Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

Its a numbers game to the wise, the more, the less. Many a precedent has been set where by a loan forfeiture, or debtor is remanded to custody. at this writing your, and each of your household owe $45,254.21
[link to www.brillig.com]

One may also pay heed to what is lawful money and what is not when the bill is due, the wise shall be freed, the unaware shall be workers, if on protest, housed.
[link to www.investopedia.com]


My only question is, is it a sin, knowing this and hoping more will come so as to lessen the cost of our own freedom?

Democracy is the two edged sword, it is the ebb and flow, the yin, and the yang, for as soon as you seek to impose your will on another, you have really stripped yourself of something.

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ridiculous horseshit..fat people buy more food therefore contributing to the GDP at a rate 4 times that of skinny people. additionally they create massive dollar revenue to Dr's and clothing makers.

If they all lost weight the farmers and cotton gins would collapse and we'd all starve to death.

Canadians live in the USA also OP, we all know that. You can go anywhere south of the border and even south of that and find tons of Canadians here in the USA. I know some and they love to eat & drink-very important life function to them (they are good cooks too).

Lets face it our lives here on planet earth are depressive the way it is now, time to rid ourselves of those causes so we can all have a better future.

on a per capita basis, it works pretty similar
889.1549767485974 US
879.4600636370787 Canada

lard asses are every where in this country, believe me

And a lot of times it's a "I like to go to McDonald's too much" issue.

Ha! Canadians are worthless and weak. Can't even get fat as good as us.

uhh..


population difference must be at least 9x.

loss of worker productivity due to higher rates of death ($49 billion)

LOL That's kind of pulling at straws here -- like there aren't 100 people waiting to step into that burger-flipping job.

I'm 6'5''. I weigh 266 as of Thursday. My BF 11%, resting HR is 52. I run, swim, bike, strength train, and practice judo and boxing. VO2 Max of 63ml/kg/min at age 36!

By the BMI standard, I'm a fatty. BMI is bullshit.