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['Ban restaurants from serving obese people']

'Ban restaurants from serving obese people'
By Tom Leonard in New York
Last Updated: 1:52am GMT 04/02/2008

A new bill in Mississippi would make it illegal for restaurants to serve obese customers.

The legislation, introduced by three members of the state’s House of Representatives, would allow health inspectors to revoke the licence of any restaurant that "repeatedly" feeds extremely overweight people.

According to the bill, which has been referred to the judiciary and public health committees, the state’s health department would determine the criteria which would then be sent to all restaurants.

Mississippi usually comes top in surveys of America’s fattest states, just as its citizens come bottom in terms of taking physical exercise.

Two-thirds of adult Mississippians are overweight and 30 per cent obese, according to the latest federal figures.

The bill proposes that the state’s health department establishes weight criteria after consulting with Mississippi’s Council on Obesity. These criteria would then be supplied to all restaurants so they could decide who not to serve.

Although it is widely predicted that the bill will not become law, it illustrates the level of concern about an issue that is estimated to cost the state’s free medical care system more than $220 million each year.

Ted Mayhall, one of the politicians who proposed the bill, said he was hoping to "call attention to the problem".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...3/wobese103.xml

Westcoast's opinion - this Ted Mayhall is a retard

 

"call attention to the problem".

What problem is he talking about? The free health care system/socialists/the health dept's policies?

[Ted Mayhall]

How do these two cradle to the grave nannies call themselves Republicans. When I first read this (above), I thought for sure it had to be a democrate socialist nut case!

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Obesity bill won't make it to floor

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"It's dead on arrival at my desk," Holland, D-Plantersville, said in a news release. "While I appreciate the efforts of my fellow House members to help curb the obesity problem in Mississippi, this is totally the wrong approach."

The bill filed by State Reps. Ted Mayhall, R-Southaven, John Read, R-Gautier, and Bobby Shows, D-Ellisville, would make it illegal for restaurants with more than five seats to serve people who are obese. The criteria for obesity would be set by the state Department of Health, and restaurants that do not comply would have their permits revoked.

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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll...50377/1001/news

 

While this is an absurd, but real example, this can be used to demonstrate the fact that we can't legislate behavior. i.e. gluttony, smoking, drinking, etc.  

While some try to use power with good intentions, they must realize that they're opening the door for other forces to use power in the same manner.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Medical costs higher for thin, healthy folks

By Maria Cheng

The Associated Press

LONDON — Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday.

It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars.

"It was a small surprise," said Pieter van Baal, an economist at the Netherlands' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, who led the study. "But it also makes sense. If you live longer, then you cost the health system more."

In a paper published online Monday in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal, Dutch researchers found that the health costs of thin and healthy people in adulthood are higher than those of either fat people or smokers.

Van Baal and colleagues created a model to simulate lifetime health costs for three groups of 1,000 people: the "healthy-living" group (thin and nonsmoking), obese people and smokers. The model relied on "cost of illness" data and disease prevalence in the Netherlands in 2003.

The researchers found that from age 20 to 56, obese people racked up the highest health costs. But because both the smokers and the obese people died sooner than the healthy group, it cost less to treat them in the long run.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nati...6_health05.html