Comments on: Is obesity a disability?

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:08:34 +0000

Steve, did you really just blame the government for your obesity? Seriously? Did someone from the Secret Service come to your house and hold a gun to your head, making you eat until you stretched your stomache to the point that only surgery can make it not huge? Grow some willpower, lower your caloric intake and take a walk. And if you refuse to do this than I do not feel an ounce of sympathy for the fact that you will be dead soon. One less fatty to be on disability.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:09:44 +0000

Morbid obesity is a disability. I am a victim of it and I can’t get any help. My doctor told me that I’m going to die within 10 years if I don’t get gastric bypass operation. I don’t have $25,000.00 cash to get it. I see a lot of people are really cruel in this website and they don’t understand what we are going through. I am 415 pounds and a diabetic suffer severe high blood pressure and sleep apnea. How can I work with these conditions. I have tried everything in the book. I will tell you what the real truth of the matter is. It’s all about the MONEY. That’s right, the government knows that people are dying from this condition including the insurance companies out there know it too. The governent does not want to give social security disability all because of a stupid Bart Simpson show that scared the hell out of social security and where afraid about obesed people applying for disability. Well I can’t work anymore because I am disabled. I’m dying in a slow manner and I can’t pay for barriatic surgery. I’m on 12 different kind of medications a day, but they say we obesed people are not disabled. It’s all about politics and MONEY. The government has time to waste billions of our tax dollars on the Iraqi war, People that hate us stipid Americans, but no money to spend on it’s own citizens that needs help the most. why is it the skinny guy or the female Chinese doctor working in our emergency room that look down on us being over weight? I don’t want to be like this, but I am. I had to hire a lawyer to fight the dam social security system cause they deny 75% of the people that apply for it. I worked hard all my life and paid into the system like a good American should pay. Now I feel that social security needs to pay back what I put in and not write me off since they misused our tax dollars. Tell that to AMA,Social Security, and Obama.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:40 +0000

tom,

fat people don’t eat more calories to maintain being obese. yes, they eat more to get there and the delivery system is carbs.

if i told you to get fat by eating steaks, you wouldn’t be able. your body couldn’t eat that many steaks.

all starvation diets fail unless they contain a large percentage of fat to satiate the patients.

all the mumbo-jumbo about emotional eating is a crock. nobody wants to be like this. they are freaking hungry because of a defect.

By: Rule .303

Rule .303 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:33:40 +0000

Are you kidding me? 90 percent of the people with disabled parking permits are fat black women driving Caddielacs. Lay off the fried chicken Bertha, you should be parking at the BACK of the parking lot and walking your fat ass.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:20:03 +0000

Obese people do not eat anymore than anyone else.
Adam – your soap box broke at that statement. You must not have any obese friends because obese people do eat more than slim people. What we eat is also important but blaming the government is a copout. Someone must live in a cave not to know high fat foods, refined sugar and carbs and over processed foods will make you fat. But people still buy foods that they know are not good for them. It is a decision not a conspiracy

By: adam

adam — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:42:45 +0000

Obesity is caused by sugar and refined carbs. There was no such thing as diabetes or populations of obese people before the Western diet of breads and sugars.

Obese people do not eat anymore than anyone else.

These government agencies refuse to admit they were wrong about high fat diets being unhealthy.

Nothing will change until the causes are addressed.

By: Willa

Willa — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:30:35 +0000

I have a friend that is 50. She has every disease associated with obesity. Now she gets disability cause she can barely walk. She continues to switch doctors cause the ones she had for years have come right out and told her that there is no magic pill for her pain. One doc told her that every time she come, she is bigger & bigger. She claim that the bedside mannor of these doctors are terrible and she refuse to be talk down to. Is their a nice way of telling a patient to get off their fat a$$ and take control of their life. These doctors are tired of talking common sense to idoits.

By: DannyX

DannyX — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:29:48 +0000

Obesity is a sin, it says so in the Bible.

God created Adam and Eve, NOT, Fatty and Obesia.

Obesity is a CHOICE! Fat people will one day demand the right to marry cakes, ice cream pizza, and pie.

Gluttony is a sin. God hates fat people. Its in the Bible.

By: GRACE

GRACE — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:25:10 +0000

I will go deeper. I don’t think health care companies should be required to pay for obestiy issues. Obestity is causing health care to sky rocket. I’ve been with my company for 13yrs. I have watch coworkers gain 20-30lbs per year. I have co-workers who are on their 2nd gastro bypass surgery. They are too lazy to go get their lunch, they have 2000 calories/100 grams of fat delivered every day. My company has excellent heathcare package. If these people with these uncontrollable appetites had to pay for the up keep of their bodies, they would learn some self control.

By: HamBone

HamBone — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:19:25 +0000

People need to exercise, drink plenty of water, and stop eatin like a drunk on a binge. Eat to live, not live to eat. At lunchtime and you are not hungry, take a walk and skip the meal.