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Being overweight is a choice that makes our healthcare system enormously more expensive. None of the things you mention are remotely comparable to it.
by matchbok 8y ago
Being overweight is a choice that makes our healthcare system enormously more expensive. None of the things you mention are remotely comparable to it.
- learc83 8y agoSitting too much is at least in the same league as being overweight, but the extent to which being overweight increases healthcare costs is largely down to the number of people who are overweight. There are many choices that an individual can make that are just as costly that aren't ridiculed. Furthermore, it's not clear that obese people actually consume more healthcare dollars. "Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained." https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...