Comments on: Japan’s battle of the bulge http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/ Australian Libertarian Society Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TerjeP (say tay-a) http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-49094 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:21:39 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-49094 Jason how is overweight defined if slightly overweight means that you live longer? Surely in deciding the optimum weight lifespan must be amoung the primary criteria.

]]> By: Tim R http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-49093 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:34 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-49093 This is what happens when governments take increasing control of health care.
I think it’s quite scary actually.

]]> By: Jason Soon http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48996 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:05:05 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48996 Here it is
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568692/Study-finds-some-overweight-people-live-longer.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/now-doctors-say-its-ugoodu-to-be-fat-399428.html

]]> By: Jason Soon http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48995 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:02:31 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48995 People who are slightly (bear in mind I said slightly) overweight live longer than people who are underweight. I read this somewhere, will try and google. It’s basically because the underweight are wimps who tend to have weaker immune systems and get more respiratory and other disorders that kill them faster than the things that kill the slightly overweight. You can be a bit on the chubby and side and still fit.

]]> By: Jason Soon http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48994 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:48:15 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48994 over 33.5 inches for someone over 40?
Jeepers, what is this Anorexia Nation?

]]> By: DavidLeyonhjelm http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48992 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:20:34 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48992 Drive across the Sydney Harbour Bridge at 60km/hr and you’ll be the slowest one on it.

We are surrounded by unenforceable laws. Lifestyle laws will simply join them.

]]> By: Mark Hill http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48989 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:37:56 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48989 Private exclusion. You’re not against that are you Perry?

]]> By: Perry Ferguson http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48988 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:35:30 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48988 Well if you are arguing for fat people being excluded then what is stopping them from excluding you if you have more than 3 beers a week or dont jog every day or smoke or do martial arts or bungee jumping or eat too much meat and any other thing that could possibly be bad for you.

Not all fat people die from heart attacks you know.

]]> By: skepticlawyer http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48987 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:33:29 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48987 I’ll bet there’s a special exemption for sumo wrestlers. Along with piles of pointless paperwork to fill in, too.

]]> By: conan1989 http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/06/27/japans-battle-of-the-bulge/#comment-48985 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:10:02 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-48985 if people wanna let them selves get fat, that’s their choice.
just don’t force the rest of us to pay for you. eg, with flying. you pay for your luggage, why not pay for your total weight. bags + ass = bill

and health care. (welfare argument aside) if you get $X fat, then you don’t get healthcare paid for with tax dollars on issues that are caused by weight. eg, heart

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