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| fat man, ole miss, force, games, beasts, exercise fat, fred mcdowell, board, atkins, website hosting, role playing, lowfat eating, fat bitch, trans fat, | More important, the argument based on taxpayer-funded health insurance proves mastercook too much. It gives the government mastercook an open-ended license to tax, regulate, or ban any behavior that might lead to disease or injury. In Food Politics, Marion Nestle declares that "obesity contributes to increased health care costs, thereby becoming an issue for everyone, overweight or not." When I ask her how far she would take this principle, she says that mastercook depends largely on how social norms evolve. "The government deals with all kinds of risky behavior: smoking, seat belts, alcohol -- all of those," she says. "I think it’s a case-by-case situation." But if, as Nestle insists, "diet is a political issue," what isn’t? The same logic suggests the government should take an interest in how much sleep you get, what kind of sex you have, and whether you floss regularly. |
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| But ultimately, if the taxpayer is paying for those choices...that is where the justification for government involvement comes from." As Finkelstein and his co-authors acknowledged, however, it’s not clear that taxpayer costs are higher, on balance, than they would be if everyone were thin. In the case of smokers, economic analyses indicate that taxpayer fat man savings from less health care in old age and fewer Social Security payments (because of shorter life expectancies) outweigh the costs fat man of treating tobacco-related diseases. Finkelstein argues that the calculation is likely to come out differently in the case of obesity, fat man partly because "the elderly obese have only a marginally shorter life expectancy." Yet the data from the Framingham Heart Study suggest that obesity and smoking have a similar impact on life expectancy. University of Chicago economist Tomas Philipson, whose work on weight trends is widely cited, says "it’s not clear whether obese people are costing us more or costing us less." |
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