Freeze, Tubby! The Fat Police Are Here

LIONEL
NY's PIX 11 News Commentary
Aired: June 30, 2012

Here's some food for thought (pardon the pun). Beware of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

"Linda Bacon, a nutritionist, exercise physiologist and psychotherapist who wrote the book Healthy at Every Size, thinks it's time to stand down the war on obesity and curb the hurtful, bellicose talk about fat people. She is one of a renegade group of scientists and healthcare practitioners 'who question the dogma that you must be thin to be healthy -- and that encouraging people to lose weight is helpful.'"

http://www.latimes.com/health/booster...

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[RichardAngevin1189]

I love this guy ... and he is pointing out one of my main gripes about the new health care law. Now the gov't - in the public interest - has the right to tell me (and you) what we can eat, drink, and force us to work out. I do not need or want a nanny.

[imsiriustube]

Slavery is the new cool. Let the government control EVERYTHING!

[drixnot]

Oh sure... we should just treat the symptoms and ignore the cause. That is what the medical industry has been doing for years... ignore the fact that the patient is a fat azz and hand out the pills to treat the diabetes and heart disease... god forbid the doctors say "you know... you really need to lose some weight."

Drug companies don't give kick backs for that.

[Oversight85]

Lionel, I would have your babies if.. I was a woman. That's how much I love you.

Just wondering, I live on the west coast, how is your message taken in NYC? Do you get a lot of support or do you see mostly ppl turning the channel to Keeping up with the Kardashians?

[MyMrBoots]

Yeah man, check out my groovy whip lashes!

[MyMrBoots]

Yup. YTou can eat what you like if your willing to WORK

[Jalteck]

Some of us don't have cars...

My diet is high in (Empty) Calories, high in fats, high in salt, high in protein, high in sugar/carbohydrates...

If I stop exercising,I would blow up. Real quick.

But when I bike 20 miles a day at least ( that's 10 to and 10 from work)...I find it difficult to keep weight on...

People just need to find a balance for their own bodies, and Big Bro can't do that for you...

[supamat4u]

love the doctor who reference

[RichardAngevin1189]

By the way, I am not fat. I work out 5-6 times a week and all of that, but my point is that the government has no right to take on the "duty" to make us live a healthier lifestyle, yet that is where we are headed. I cringe when NYC Mayor Bloomberg opens his mouth these days. Obviously he doesn't believe in freedom, except his own of course. I am sure he believes in that.

[samakya]

Great comment, I couldn't agree with you more! Vinegar in Freedom tastes better than honey in slavery.

[samakya]

Thanks Lionel for the great vid, and calling it like you see it. Now that cellulite has been deemed illegal, makes me wonder who is really pulling the strings of our gov... Paris Hilton? Oh and let's not forget Monsanto, whose own engineers refuse to eat the GMO's that they have created and pumped into our food supply!