Obesity is a disability?

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There's possibly an argument for it, based on the lack of education of how unhealthy most foods are these days. You wouldn't say people who get skin cancer would be categorised under a lifestyle choice because they were out in the sun all day without sunscreen, they're just a bit dim.
 

red1 said:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/18/obesity-can-be-disability-eu-court-rules

That's basically what the EU said :D Haha. I would have thought it was a lifestyle choice...but someone in the comments section on that page refuted it by saying that people who get injured doing sports etc. are also disabled due to a lifestyle choice! What do we think?
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Sheer ignorance on your behalf is what I think.

Depression often leads to obesity as the depressed person can rarely exercise and resorts to comfort eeating.

People with overactive glands can end up right porkers without ever over eating.

it is far too simple, not to mention lazy, to say every fat person has made "a lifestyle choice".

As it happens I had thought chronic obesity was already recognised as a disabling condition in the UK.
 
Elong said:
There's possibly an argument for it, based on the lack of education of how unhealthy most foods are these days. You wouldn't say people who get skin cancer would be categorised under a lifestyle choice because they were out in the sun all day without sunscreen, they're just a bit dim.
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Ah man, you always stood out because of your gangster avatar...you have emasculated him with that hat. Disappointing. :D
 
The truth is a lot of health issues can be prevented by not smoking, not drinking, not doing drugs, eating healithly, not playing sports, etc, etc.

I fear a society which seperates the ill into the deservedly ill and the undeservedly ill. It's a lot like how the right like to seperate between the good poor and the bad poor. It's not a nice way for society to go, when you have to prove that you're in a bad spot honestly befopre you get help as if if you make any bad calls you don't deserve sympathy anymore.
 
Khalekan said:
Sheer ignorance on your behalf is what I think.

Depression often leads to obesity as the depressed person can rarely exercise and resorts to comfort eeating.

People with overactive glands can end up right porkers without ever over eating.

it is far too simple, not to mention lazy, to say every fat person has made "a lifestyle choice".

As it happens I had thought chronic obesity was already recognised as a disabling condition in the UK.
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You forgot to mention "Big bones" in your crap excuses for being fat
 

I don't suppose it matters if it's self inflicted, I mean, if you're not 'able' to do routine and everyday tasks then by definition you are 'disabled'.

If I were to shoot myself in the spine for some reason or swing a sledgehammer over my head and between my shoulder blades or pole-vault into a bridge or voodoo tamper a self styled doll or such then I'd be expecting one of those parking discs

If these fat folk are not able then they're not able
 
If you lost your legs you ain't getting them back, if you have MS or Parkinson's it won't go away, if your brain damaged you can't get a new one. If your obese you can diet and exercise.
 
Elong said:
There's possibly an argument for it, based on the lack of education of how unhealthy most foods are these days. You wouldn't say people who get skin cancer would be categorised under a lifestyle choice because they were out in the sun all day without sunscreen, they're just a bit dim.
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Yep. Health literacy in the US is abysmal even in highly educated folks.
 
The worrying thing is the rapid increase in child obesity rates. A lot of that is down to too much Xbox, not enough getting outside and playing.
 

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