Alabama Plans to Tax Fat Employees to Recoup Insurance Costs

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But the fact remains that obesity, by and large, is preventable and is a product of poor decisions made by the individual.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Those are some very wide strokes you are painting, and the color is very ugly. Fact is, you don't have any understanding of all the facts. The truth is that obesity is far too complex an issue to just say "eat less exercise more". An alcoholic does not have to drink to live. A smoker does not have to smoke to live. An obese person does have to eat to live. People are able to exercise, and have otherwise fit measures of health, in the presence of obesity. The only "truth" I can derive from your statement is that you have never had to struggle with it nor be the target of the only remaining socially acceptable discrimination.