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You don't mention how many calories you eat or whether you're "eating back" exercise calories you've earned via exercise. Though it does sound like you have a fitbit or something similar. Does your step tracking device also give you a TDEE or total daily calories burned reading? Dianne's post has a lot of info, but if you…
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So, all medical care either comes out of your private pocket OR you agree to pay the "universal care" tax, and then you get to use the single-payer system for free? All private insurance available is now supplemental/in addition to the universal health government plan? No penalty for not joining system. Does that make…
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I haven't checked for every country, but I think most of these countries have compulsory insurance or a nation-wide single payer. This was 2012, but it wasn't until this past year where the US per capita spending slowed down at all. I'm letting my frugal flag fly here, but I think it's next to insane that we spend so much…
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What about universal care feels "utopian" to you?
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I think the VHA level of care depends on your locality, unfortunately. Some areas seem to have good wait/appointment times. The most consensus I've seen is getting prescriptions, the diagnosis/medication prescribed always seemed 20 years out of date, to me.
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Goodness knows I'm not holding them up as truly perfect systems, but do you think Medicare and VHA work ok at the Federal level?
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-Are you implying there are only 2 options? (1) Private health care where only the rich/lucky/disabled/old get care or (2) routinely waiting cruel lengths of time for care in a socialist nightmare? -Are you using anecdotal instances as evidence to prove your point? -Are you providing any sources/data for your stance?
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Am I being unclear? I'm sorry about that. Shall I rephrase my statement? Let me try, but please don't get mad or attempt to demean my opinion for reiterating something, ok? The people, the human beings in these countries with as rich and varied of lives, thoughts, and feelings as you, along with millions of people in this…
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Would it be more accurate to say "free-at-the-time-of-services-via-collective-taxes"?
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To them it's a "right." Just like some people in this thread think there's a right to property or a right to get your grievances heard before a court of law. I understand some people here don't think this is a right, and I really do respect and want to hear the other point of view, but some people in the US do think it's a…
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Obviously the people in these countries would disagree that it's something "dreamed up": Norway New Zealand Japan Germany Belgium United Kingdom Kuwait Sweden Bahrain Brunei Canada Netherlands Austria United Arab Emirates Finland Slovenia Denmark Luxembourg France Australia Ireland Italy Portugal Cyprus Greece Spain South…
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In case anyone wants to read the nurse/breast cancer study and not the hyped claims made of it.
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Study used memory of adult nurses to reconstruct their adolescent intake. But, it seems sound enough. Though, I would wonder if those three specific fruits are mentioned in their self reports not because they specifically lower risk different than other fruit, but because apples, bananas and grapes were the cheapest most…
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There's that funny phenomenon of when you have certain fat taken from your body, then you get fat, except you don't get fat in that one area, but you're fat all around it.
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Radiation is non invasive, too.
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If they're getting sick from overconsumption... like actually sick... is anyone to blame? Are the parents to blame? And if so, do we fine the parents? Put the kids in foster care? Again, it seems TO ME like it's way too big of a problem to lay solely on the backs of parents.
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Holy moly. I can't even imagine how this might effect someone with Raynaud's. But... then again... botox is essentially paralyzing yourself. So I guess this makes sense, too.
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It would seem not everyone in this thread agrees there ::should:: be rights to something like that. it isn't 'Murican enough and infringes on their freedom. Or something.
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Speaking of Michigan, your comment about Detroit makes me think about the water issue in Flint. That the world was so outraged about the water situation there and how people are getting sick, but those same kids are getting sick from our food supply. Is the Red Cross and the National Guard trucking in broccoli for them?…
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Even in a food desert?
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If we're talking about MY personal beliefs, I'd say that the obesity problem is too massive to pinpoint on one individual or one industry. Again, when we've gotten to the point where 35% or whatever of adults meets the BMI definition of obese, I think there's a problem. I think "we're all" to blame, since we can't possibly…
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When I'm awake at night with no new links on reddit to read, my mind wanders towards "following the money." Whenever I see wacky opinions from otherwise reasonable-seeming individuals, I try to follow the money, as in SOMEONE is making money from you having this viewpoint (or is protecting money they already have). So I…
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Good point about the "continues to produce it after conclusive evidence and hides it from the public." Surely, no conclusive evidence linking sugar to obesity has been established. But if one reads the blogosphere, there sure are a lot of articles trying to link them!
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Can we apply this to food manufacturers? Let's say wheat is conclusively proven to cause autism... i dunno... can farmers and the company that makes wonder bread be held to blame and be responsible for the autism treatment? Can Kroger be partially to blame for selling the wheat products?
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So let's say the factory next door to your house has been spewing ... ammonia... mustard gas... whatever your whole life. And 20 years later you get sick and it can be tied to the fumes conclusively, as does the 50,000,000 other people in your city who've been breathing the emissions. Do you feel that the factory owner…
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I'm sorry you felt I was asking the same question. I felt that I was reiterating my question because people were answering questions I didn't ask. For instance, insisting I was talking about ownership of a well and accusing me of moving a goal post when I feel a reasonable person would have noted I was asking about the…
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I get your point. And it's not like I wouldn't say there's too many "class action lawsuits" where there's seen to be some kind of collective damage that really seems to instead be more about the law firm making a name for themselves and a steady stream of income.
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So if somehow there was a "victim" in the obesity epidemic, maybe we could consider it a just matter to consider a collective threat?
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I really would appreciate you stop with the ad hominem statements. I ignored your first couple. And I apologized at one point in case I'd offended you. Yet the ad hominem statements continue.
