Cost blowout from obesity epidemic

Kudos, fatsos.

"The health problems associated with obesity are well known. Now there are some alarming revelations about the economic cost of carrying too much weight.

Access Economics says the cost of dealing with obese Australians has blown out to $58-billion a year. That's nearly three times the cost just three years ago.

And it's also billions of dollars more than the estimated cost of drug and alcohol abuse to Australia's health system."

And it is happening elsewhere, too.

Like in the USA where so-called health care reform is nothing more than a costly boondoggle.

Where the USA is apparently facing a multi-billion/multi-trillion financial meltdown. (and possibly elsewhere)

Where a $700 billion bailout is relative chump change to a system that spends about 3 times that amount for a silly sick care system.

Want to solve the financial problems, save some lives and improve the lives of many?

Here are some places to start getting "contributions" by recovering IMHO stolen money and blood money:

1. Cut all "investment" in overweight/obesity research. What causes it and fixes it is known with absolute certainty.
2. Do not pay anything from the public coffers for drugs and procedures to "cure" the overfat. They are malpractice and do not worl.
3. Tax the fat more and make them pay their fair share of the costs for their calorically irresponsible behaviors, e.g., pay more for air travel.
4. Have the fat pay more for "health" insurance, as they cost more since they develop costly diseases of choice.
5. Stop all business wellness programs, since they are doomed to fail, just as all weight loss programs do. Then implement programs that have a chance of succeeding.
6. Stop paying more for "healthy" foods in schools. There are no "healthy" foods, there is only eating healthily. No special foods are needed to eat healthily.
7. Enforce CAPTA, especially holding mandatory reporters accountable, e.g., apply the law to docs, teachers, sick care workers, school principals and others who fail to report nutritional child abuse.
8. Because of the risks associated with fat people having kids, both to the fat adult and the unlucky child, discourage fat people from having children and when they do, have them pay more.
9. Cease all advertising of weight loss products, programs, "health" foods, etc., based on the conventional stupidity (e.g., BestLife, Zone, WeightWatchers, You: On A Diet, Fat Smash and others)
10. Hold the IMHO Robber Barons of the diet industry accountable for their misdeeds, including suing them for recovery of money they IMHO fraudulently took from the public and jail time for the harm they knew or should have known they were causing. IMHO, this includes (the list is not exhaustive):
Oprah Winfrey,
Mehmet Oz,
Barry Sears,
David Katz,
Jorge Cruise,
David Zinczenko,
Bob Greene,
Kelly Brownell,
Art Agatston,
Diet Book Publishers (e.g., Simon and Schuster),
Media Broadcast Companies,
Sick Care Institutions,
Big Pharma,
The AMA,
Commercial Weight Loss Programs/Clinics (e.g. WeightWatchers),
Companies displaying the South Beach Diet or BestLife seals on their products,
"Health" Periodical Publishers (e.g., Rodale) and
Etc.

Now that is a good start.