The New Smoking
Being fat is probably going to get you discriminated againt in the workplace, if it already hasn’t. As another group of hack researchers come out with a claim to bolster the anti-obesity hysteria.
Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers’ compensation claims as their fit co-workers.
Obesity experts said they hope the study will convince employers to invest in programs to help fight obesity. One employment attorney warned companies that treating fat workers differently could lead to discrimination complaints.
Duke University researchers also found that the fattest workers had 13 times more lost workdays due to work-related injuries, and their medical claims for those injuries were seven times higher than their fit co-workers.
Overweight workers were more likely to have claims involving injuries to the back, wrist, arm, neck, shoulder, hip, knee and foot than other employees.
What this study will do is encourage employers to not hire fat people. What this study does is stigmatize a major part of the population. It also is another justification for nanny state clowns to start segregating and quasi-criminalizing them the way they have smokers.
This is the pattern for this kind of work. First someone creates a crisis. Like global warming, for example. Then they get a handful of scientists to say its a real crisis. Then some government stooges call for an investigation. Then some other scientists put in for grant money to study the problem, get it and support the findings. More government stooges make more dumb statements and the cycle escalates until you have laws restricting more of our liberties and limiting our choices even more. It’s the drip drip process of government stupidity and we really need to figure out how to stop this nonsense.
Here is a fantastic article that helps explain the obesity trend in the U.S. It was a real eye opener for me.
Posted by on 04/25 at 04:22 AMProcessed food are not good for you. I try to stay away from them, myself.
And yes, poor people tend to eat a lot of processed food. Some of the worst kinds. Fast food is cheap and convenient. If you can afford a restaurant, you can probably afford McDonalds.
Better education is needed so people can make informed choices.
Posted by James Hudnall on 04/25 at 08:41 AM
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