Obesity Poll

I am going to go with the first option, but I do believe that the person should have to show that they are making an effort to lose weight the healthy way before any drastic treatments are covered. Obesity IS a disease, but often it's a self-imposed disease. Our culture has made it easy for people to become obese, and stay obese!

I also think it would be lovely if my health insurance covered a certain amount toward a gym membership.... but that's a pipe dream! :laugh:

My thoughts exactly. My father in law is now all excited to go get weight loss surgery, but he's never even tried losing weight the right way. He sits on his butt all day and eats AWFUL food. He's never even tried, but now he thinks he can go have surgery and fix it for free...

But I love the insurance helping to cover gym membership suggestion!!! That would be nice

I think obese people should force themselves to be on MFP.

One. But only to a certain degree, such as, providing free gym memberships, covering visits to a certified nutritionist or weight loss specialist, and these can only stay covered by showing improvement in your weight or health. On another note, educating the public on what they eat has got to become a norm for every business, even grocery stores. My daughter just went through basic training for the Army, at the cafeteria they labeled everything they served with green, yellow, or red stickers. Green for low calories options, yellow for mid calorie options, and red for high calorie options. They would recommend to choose the calorie option best suited to your physical needs that day, in other words, the more you move the more cals you can have. Its such a simple process with a very visual tool. Sure, labeling the calorie content gets the attention of some, but, can you imagine walking into a fast food restaurant and seeing all the items on the lighted up menu above written in green, yellow, or red lettering?