Savoury and lean
Haha, couldn't be much worse than roo meat could it?
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Savoury and lean
On the topic, no, please don't use my tax for funding bariatric surgery.)
'Medicare covers some bariatric surgical procedures, like gastric bypass surgery and laparoscopic banding surgery, when you meet certain conditions related to morbid obesity. Your doctor or other health care provider may recommend you get services more often than Medicare covers.'
Straight from Medicare's website, they already do.
Not exactly. Inactivity is a problem for a number of reasons, however it is not the biggest contributor to expanding waistlines - high calorie intake is. If you keep the same calorie dense diet and start exercising you will not lose significant weight. To lose weight, you HAVE to change what you eat. Exercise is important of course as our bodies are not designed for sedentary lifestyles.
As far as taxpayer funded bariatric surgery - no way. People need to take personal responsibility for themselves.
Medicare does not cover the cost of the gastric band itself.
Perhaps we should encourage people to smoke.
A generation or so ago when more people smoked there was no obesity problem then like there is today (there's food for thought)
I dont want my tax dollars funding self inflicted obesity.
But our tax dollars do fund self inflicted tobacco and alcohol damage. Our hospitals and doctors are kept busy dealing with all the sequelae of smoking and alcohol addiction - lung cancers, liver cancers, emphysema, alcoholic brain damage, alcoholic liver damage, stomach ulcers.
And they shouldn't.
So maybe we should turn away all smokers and drinkers from hospitals, medical clinics, close the drug/alcohol wards and psychiatric wards - let them all go to drug/alcohol nirvana?