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1 year ago
in Pay Fat People to Lose Weight? on Natural Bodybuilding with Marc David
Ok, I know a lot of people think this a dumb idea, but step back and look at the big picture. Obsity is more common among people of lower income more often those of middle or upper incomes. To me this incentive sounds like a way to help those who couldn't afford to get help losing weight.
Also the quotes says "A doctors group has proposed that overweight people be given a $170 subsidy to attend an accredited weight-loss program."
The defination of a subsidy is, "Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest."
This money is either designed to help pay for the weight loss program or the cost associated with it. For example, trying out healthy new foods, a good pair of shoes for excercising, or equipment like a bike, rebounder or excercise video that makes workout more fun.
Sure if they give the money directly to the individual some people will missuse it, but governments always put rules and regulation on programs like this to reduce the amount of abuse.
In addition to that, if these people that go to through the weight loss programs and get the $170 incentive actually do lose weight, even just 20lbs they will save the health care system tons of money in the long run.
To give you an example I'll use myself. I'm type 2 diabetic and I have to spend over $200 in supplies and medication each month, and that's buying them at Walmart, if I had to get them at Walgreen or some where else, I'd spend twice that, if not more.
If I don't take care of myself someday I will get so sick that I won't be able to work, and the government will have to take care of me. Even if the cost of my supplies and medications didn't increase that's $200 a month, plus doctors visits, plus disablity payments, etc, etc, etc...
A one time investment of $170 from the government when I was in my early 20 to help me lose weight and teach me how to keep it off and led a healthy lifesytle would have been money well spent.
When I was 20 I thought the only problem with being overweight was that I wasn't the American image of beauty. Well I didn't want to be beautiful. I wants to be liked for who I was, not what I looked like. I was hiding years of abuse and neglect under the weight. Food was my only comfort when I was hurting because the people I grew up with where evil.
No one wants to be overweight, not really. Most people who are seriously overweight, have bad habits and can't change them without some support. Others, especially women are hiding under their weight. Many overweight people feel trapped inside their body, a prisoner to cravings they don't understand and can't resist.
Sure will power works for awhile, but when stress builds up and our will power fails and we fall back on the habits that helped us cope in the past, unless we have the support and knowledge to try new things.
This $170 subsidy is a small price to pay when compared to the long term cost of obesity.
Also the quotes says "A doctors group has proposed that overweight people be given a $170 subsidy to attend an accredited weight-loss program."
The defination of a subsidy is, "Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest."
This money is either designed to help pay for the weight loss program or the cost associated with it. For example, trying out healthy new foods, a good pair of shoes for excercising, or equipment like a bike, rebounder or excercise video that makes workout more fun.
Sure if they give the money directly to the individual some people will missuse it, but governments always put rules and regulation on programs like this to reduce the amount of abuse.
In addition to that, if these people that go to through the weight loss programs and get the $170 incentive actually do lose weight, even just 20lbs they will save the health care system tons of money in the long run.
To give you an example I'll use myself. I'm type 2 diabetic and I have to spend over $200 in supplies and medication each month, and that's buying them at Walmart, if I had to get them at Walgreen or some where else, I'd spend twice that, if not more.
If I don't take care of myself someday I will get so sick that I won't be able to work, and the government will have to take care of me. Even if the cost of my supplies and medications didn't increase that's $200 a month, plus doctors visits, plus disablity payments, etc, etc, etc...
A one time investment of $170 from the government when I was in my early 20 to help me lose weight and teach me how to keep it off and led a healthy lifesytle would have been money well spent.
When I was 20 I thought the only problem with being overweight was that I wasn't the American image of beauty. Well I didn't want to be beautiful. I wants to be liked for who I was, not what I looked like. I was hiding years of abuse and neglect under the weight. Food was my only comfort when I was hurting because the people I grew up with where evil.
No one wants to be overweight, not really. Most people who are seriously overweight, have bad habits and can't change them without some support. Others, especially women are hiding under their weight. Many overweight people feel trapped inside their body, a prisoner to cravings they don't understand and can't resist.
Sure will power works for awhile, but when stress builds up and our will power fails and we fall back on the habits that helped us cope in the past, unless we have the support and knowledge to try new things.
This $170 subsidy is a small price to pay when compared to the long term cost of obesity.
