So we should ban all fast food then? Cut it out altogether? I mean someone who buys one large burger may in fact buy two smaller ones instead and cause the same problems.
That way no one can get fat and waste resources and become a burden.
The thing is though, people who are overweight don't necessarily overeat. They could just eat the wrong things and not get exercise. They could also have a medical condition that is a completely unprovoked need for them.
I have a mate who weighs about 85 kilos wringing wet and eats two bbq chickens for lunch.
Maybe you should stop eating and donate your food to compensate? :crazy:
These are all ridiculous points.
1. Of course we shouldn't ban fast food, but we shouldn't make it easier for people to get fat either. Obesity can be reduced to a manageable level in which resource wastage isn't so profound. Actions like this do nothing to help however.
2. Everyone burns a certain number of calories per day. These calories are dependant on your metabolism, size, and daily exercise. To gain weight you need to eat an excess of calories. More calories are burnt as you gain weight eg. Someone who weights 90kg will burn more calories at rest than someone who is 60kg. In order to gain weight you are overeating, you can't get fat without overeating, it's pure mathematics. To maintain an overweight figure, you need those base calories, otherwise you start losing weight. Thus, someone who is overweight will be eating more calories than they would be had they never gained weight in the first place. Fat doesn't just appear out of nowhere.
Medical conditions are a completely different kettle of fish, to lump them in with people who overeat because they are either lazy, ignorant or both is just stupid. Prader-Willi syndrome is a condition in which the hypothalamus can't regulate your hunger prangs, and it affects about 1 in 12,000-15,000 live births. Basically, you are hungry all the time, all you think about is food and eating, you can't controll it at all. There is a huge difference between someone who overeats because of a medical condition and someone who overeats because they're a f**king idiot.
3. Good for him, maybe he uses up a lot of calories, maybe he eats only 1 or 2 meals. Again, you need to look further than the obvious. How can one little anecdote prove my entire point useless?
4. No way, I f**king love my food.
I'm talking purely about obesity here. I'm not talking about people who are just a bit overweight. I am talking about people who are the literal interpretation of Timmah, the jabba the hutts of this world. This group is probably bigger than you think, and I have the funny feeling that it's growing every day. I don't want society to have to take the weight (pun intentional) because burger king wants to profit and becuase fatty-fatty-boom-boom wants his caaaaake.
